Caslon
Caslon is a family of serif typefaces that made it to my list of interesting fonts simply because I think it is beautiful.
What does Caslon look like?
Caslon Pro Regular
Caslon Pro Italic
Caslon Pro Semibold
Caslon Pro Semibold Italic
Caslon Pro Bold
Caslon Pro Bold Italic
What do you use Caslon for?
Caslon is a good font for body text. It is used quite a lot in magazines, journals, books or as a corporate typeface.
The history of Caslon
William Caslon I was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. Around 1720 he created an extended set of serif typefaces. These as well as all of their consecutive revivals are referred to as Caslon. Among those revivals are two Adobe versions, called Adobe Caslon (1990) and Adobe Caslon Pro (which includes an extended character set). ITC and a number of other foundries also made typefaces that either are pretty close to the originals or loosely based on them.
Trivia
Benjamin Franklin was not only a scientist and one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. He was also a printer and he liked the fonts made by William Caslon so much that he hardly ever used any other typeface.
Other sources of information
There is a Wikipedia page which lists the various versions of Caslon out there. For font lovers the Typophile wiki is probably a more interesting read.
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I’m a family historian, of sorts. When choosing a font for reproduction of a very old newspaper article in our family book, I chose Caslon because it seemed to be a font that might have been used by newspapers some years ago. I suppose I wasn’t too wrong. I think it’s a beautiful font, too.