An unusual type style offered at least as early as 1838 by Nesbitt. Utilizes a folded zig-zag effect similar to its slab-serif sibling Antique Grotesque (also from Nesbitt). Figgins later offered a metal type equivalent as Zig-Zag. [Gray 1976] See also Broken Back by Starr (before 1907).

Kink is a digital typeface in the same vein.

Not to be confused with Bureau Brut’s Roman Grotesque.