#caslon

Typography Tuesday

Today we present some fancy Caslon capitals, borders, and ornaments from The Manual of Linotype Typography, printed by the Plimpton Press for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. William Caslon (1692-1766) famously introduced the first superior British Roman font in his 1734 specimen sheet. Various iterations of the Caslon typefounding house persisted until the 1930s when it was acquired by Stephenson Blake, but the Caslon Roman typeface remains the classic British font.

View another post from this manual.

23 March 2025 | Oxford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

pure typographical valentine [again, this year]. cover: arabesque composition of will bradley fleuron pair [atf bradley combination ornaments—vide ‹nota bene›]; message set in caslon old style italic [lanston monotype 3371].

The first picture is from this year, and the second is the old one from 2022. I love their friendship 😭💗

(The blush is out of embarrassment cause Sans told a bad joke, so bad that it made both of them embarrassed yeah yeah, they're homies)

/ooc

Hello! I'm choosing to revive the papyton kiddos! Impact, calibri, Trajan, and also caslon! As well a my OC Amor, I'll be making character sheets for all of them that I'll post on here.

I've noticed that ever since madhattey quit tumblr the papyton kiddos have died out, so here I am reviving them!

Send asks! Asks for things you wanna ask the papyton kiddos, or things you wanna ask me!

From: Luckombe, Philip, -1803. A concise history of the origin and progress of printing. London : W. Adlard and J. Browne, 1770