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    Caslon is the name given to serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (c. 1692–1766) in London, or inspired by his work. Caslon worked as an engraver...
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    William Caslon I (1692/93 – 23 January 1766), also known as William Caslon the Elder, was an English typefounder. The distinction and legibility of his...
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    Caslon Antique is a decorative American typeface that was designed in 1894 by Berne Nadall. It was originally called "Fifteenth Century", but was renamed...
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  • Look up Caslon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caslon usually refers to William Caslon (I) of United Kingdom (1692–1766), who was an English gunsmith...
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    Egyptian is a typeface created by the Caslon foundry of Salisbury Square, London around or probably slightly before 1816, that is the first general-purpose...
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    The Caslon type foundry was a type foundry in London which cast and sold metal type. It was founded by the punchcutter and typefounder William Caslon I...
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    Elizabeth Caslon, born Elizabeth Cartlich (31 July 1730 – 3 March 1795), was a British typefounder. She ran the family's Caslon foundry with her husband...
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    publications in the UK include the following: The Caslon typeface of 1732 has the long s. The Caslon typeface of 1796 has the short s only. In the UK,...
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  • William Caslon, during the mid-18th century, designed many typefaces, including ITC Founder's Caslon, ITC Founder's Caslon Ornaments, Caslon Graphique...
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    typeface dates to about 1821. It was created by the Caslon Type Foundry in London (then called Caslon and Catherwood), presumably as a parody of the crisp...
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    Until William Caslon (1692–1766), English type generally had a poor reputation so the best type was imported from Holland. Only after Caslon had established...
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    characters in a single size. For example, 8-point Caslon Italic was one font, and 10-point Caslon Italic was another. Historically, a font came from...
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    contributed to the design of, many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. Twombly retired from Adobe and from type design in early 1999, to focus...
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    Blackletter (redirect from Caslon Black)
    Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western...
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    Retrieved May 19, 2020. Caslon, William IV (1816). Untitled fragment of a specimen book of printing types, c. 1816. London: William Caslon IV. Retrieved May...
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    Retrieved 21 July 2019. Caslon, William (c. 1816). [Specimens of printing types] (untitled specimen book). London: William Caslon IV. Retrieved 6 March...
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    standard italic. Among old-style typefaces, some releases of Caslon, such as Adobe Caslon, and Garamond, including Adobe Garamond Pro and EB Garamond,...
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    The ligatures of Adobe Caslon Pro...
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    A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia....
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    2016. "MoMA – The Collection – Matthew Carter. Big Caslon. 1993". The Museum of Modern Art. "Big Caslon – Desktop font " MyFonts". New.myfonts.com. 1 January...
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    sign for code point 0024:[citation needed] regular-weight Baskerville, Big Caslon, Bodoni MT, Garamond: ($) In LaTeX, with the textcomp package installed...
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    rare, as may be seen in the illustration above. In the eighteenth-century Caslon metal fonts, the pound sign was identical to an italic uppercase J, rotated...
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    long-tailed Qs fell out of favor: even recreations of classic typefaces such as Caslon began being distributed with only short Q tails. Not a fan of long-tailed...
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    Text figures in various fonts: Adobe Garamond, Adobe Caslon, Theano Didot and Essonnes Text. Note the ascending 3, 4 and 5 in the two latter fonts....
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    A specimen sheet issued by William Caslon, letter founder, from the 1728 edition of Cyclopaedia...
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  • Msizi Africa (redirect from Lucy Caslon)
    Msizi Africa is an international charitable organisation set up by Lucy Caslon in 2007. Msizi means 'helper' in Zulu. The charity, based in South London...
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  • from their earlier Baskerville style of letter, to follow the more popular Caslon character. Joseph Fry's firm became Joseph Fry of London (1773–1776). In...
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    15 November 2018. "Media Business Communication time line since 1861". Caslon. Archived from the original on 6 December 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2008...
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    from 18th-century typesetting in England, William Caslon & Son's Specimen printed by William Caslon I (1692–1766) in 1763 in London. The sample shows...
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    forms. Caslon's italic structures follow the Fell italics, but at a condensed width and with conventional branching from stems. William Caslon's prodigious...
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