Big Moore

Big Moore

Matthew Carter

Designers: Matthew Carter
Design date:
Publisher: Carter & Cone Type Inc.

A 1766 specimen by Isaac Moore, former manager of Joseph Fry’s foundry in Bristol, England, shows many types inspired by John Baskerville’s. But a century later, standardization had foisted inept lining figures and shortened descenders upon these…

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