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In 18th-century England and America, Caslon fonts came to dominate printing. Hot-metal revivals in the 20th century were legendary for readability. The letterpress printers’ adage was: “When in doubt, use Caslon.” William Berkson drew...
One of the good practices of today’s type foundries is that they release their type families as systems including both serif and sans serif type. Usually, the sources of inspiration need to be well...
This font was inspired by one of Antoine Augereau’s three roman typefaces: the Gros Romain (±16 Pts) size, used in 1533 to print Le miroir de l’âme…, a religious poetic compilation by Marguerite de...
Garamond Premier Pro had its genesis in 1988, when Adobe senior type designer Robert Slimbach visited the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, to study its collection of Claude Garamond’s metal punches and type designs....
All SoftMaker webfonts come with at least 500,000 pageviews included.
All SoftMaker webfonts come with at least 500,000 pageviews included.
In this design prepared for Weber in the 1950s, Georg Trump breaks selected curves to separate his work from conventional oldstyles.
In the early 1960s, the German Master Printers’ Association requested that a new typeface be designed and produced in identical form on both Linotype and Monotype machines so that text and technical composition would...