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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Modern serif typefaces, Old style serif typefaces, Slab serif typefaces, Transitional serif typefaces, Palatino, Times Roman, Caslon, Century Type Family, Courier, Samples of serif typefaces, Garamond, Goudy Old Style, Bembo, Miller, Cooper Black, Bodoni, Minion, Sabon, Nimbus Roman No9 L, Cambria, Mrs Eaves, Computer Modern, Trajan, Junicode, Utopia, Trinite, Caledonia, Baskerville, Georgia, Bookman, Perpetua, Clearface, Cheltenham, FF Scala, Lexicon, Arno, Albertus, Clarendon, ITC Benguiat, Didot, City, Plantin, Friz Quadrata, Bulmer, Linux Libertine, Hoefler Text, Literaturnaya, Rockwell, Bell, Centaur, Caslon Roman, Joanna, Janson, American Typewriter, Bitstream Charter, Aldus, Copperplate Gothic, Charis SIL, Granjon, Adobe Jenson, Constantia, Imprint, Requiem, Windsor, Algerian, Aster, Korinna, Excelsior, Ionic No. 5, Corona, Tower, Emerson, Scotch Roman, Cholla Slab, Calisto, Egyptienne, Cartier, Bauer Bodoni, Sistina, Dead History, Hess Old Style, Bernhard Modern, New York, Poliphilus, NPS Rawlinson Roadway, Calvert, Aurora, Fairfield, Surveyor, Blado, Archer, Skeleton Antique, Trixie, Ellington, Catull, Monticello, Concrete Roman, Athens, Lexia, Alexandria, Nueva Standard, Capitals. Excerpt: Caslon refers to a number of serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (1692-1766), and various revivals thereof. Caslon shares the irregularity characteristic of Dutch Baroque types. It is characterized by short ascenders and descenders, bracketed serifs, moderately-high contrast, robust texture, and moderate modulation of stroke. The A has a concave hollow at the apex, the G is without a spur. Caslon's italics have a rhythmic calligraphic stoke. Characters A, V, and W have an acute slant. The lowercase italic p, q, v, w, and z all have a suggestion of a swash. Caslon's earliest design dates to 1722. Caslon is cited ...
