The Caslon fonts were used extensively by people from all ranks, particularly in. In his last type specimen book before the sale of his foundry to Blake & Garnet.
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His works gained fame because of their attractiveness and functionality. The line reading W Caslon Junr Letterfounder is set in Two Lines Egyptian. A notable English punchcutter, he designed many typefaces during this time, until his death in 1766. It caught on quickly, and advertisements and other printed material from the early 19th century stood out because of its use. Berlin-based Dutch type designer Luc (as) de Groot is best-known for his superfamily Thesis: TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix, TheAntiqua, with monospaced and even Arabic variants. William Caslon IV developed Two Lines English Egyptianalso known as Caslon Egyptianin 1816. Furter refinements and extensions were done in 2001 by Christian Schwartz in his Caslon's Egyptian. Caslon in essence refers to Old Style serifs originally created by William Caslon in 1722. Based in Berlin, Germany, LucasFonts is a bustling type design studio with a small, dedicated team of designers and type technicians. In 1998, Cyrus Highsmith ( Font Bureau) refined Miko's version, giving it a more complete character set for Red Herring magazine, 1996-1998. In particular, he revived Caslon's Egyptian (1816), William Caslon IV's set of sans serif capitals.
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TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onÄesigner who as a student of Tobias Frere-Jones at Yale revived sans designs by William Caslon IV, whose matrices from 1816 were found in the archives of Stephenson Blake.