Clarendon

clarendon 115 pt

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that was created in England by Robert

Besley for Thorowgood and Co. (or Thorowgood and Besley.), a type company formerly known

The typeface was published in 1845 after Besley, an employee of the foundry since 1826, was made a partner in the firm.

Due to its popularity, Besley registered the typeface under Britain’s Ornamental Designs Act of 1842. The patent expired three years later, and other foundries were quick to copy it.

They were marketed by Stephenson Blake as Consort, though some additional weights (a bold and italics) were cut in the 1950s.

It was named after the Clarendon Press in Oxford. Designs for wood type were made from the mid 1840s on. The typeface was reworked by the Monotype foundry in 1935.

It was then also revised by Hermann Eidenbenz and Edouard Hoffmann in 1953, Freeman Craw as Craw Clarendon, an American version released by the American Type Founders, in 1955, and by Aldo Novarese as Egizio, complete with italics, in 1958, among other faces.

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Clarendon is considered the first registered typeface, with the original matrices and punches remaining at Stephenson Blake and later residing at the Type Museum, London.

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9/14 pt

as the Fann Street Foundry until approximately 1838.

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30/30 pt

the hard work hasn’t even begun.

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larendon is an English slab-serif typeface

The font was used extensively by the government of the German Empire for proclamations during World War I, and was also common in wanted posters of the American Old West.

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In the late nineteenth century the basic Clarendon face was radically altered by foundries in the United States resulting in the production of the French Clarendon type with enlarged block serifs. This devlopement is usually recognized as the type used in circus posters and wanted notices in western movies. Other names are also used for this type.

Jaspert’s Encyclopedia of Typefaces refers to the type as Reversed Egyptian, while DeVinne calls it Italian and says “To be hated, it needs but to be seen.”

P. T. Barnum is an example of this typeface.

go your own way.

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“not all who wander are lost.”

50/36 pt

have less. do more. be more.

36 pt

selected members of the clarendon typeface clarendon light clarendon oblique clarendon medium clarendon extra bold 18/18 pt

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