Sunday 30 January 2011

William Caslon

William Caslon  (1693-1766)
the founder of Caslon Typeography.
Although William Caslon was know as a Designer, in his early years caslon started off as an Engraver, he engraved government marks on gunlocks. Through these early year works William Caslon was soon noticed by a group of London printers and booksellers were he was asked to create certain fonts, soon came success and before long William Caslon was designing his own Typography. Here are fonts designed by William :

ITC Caslon 224
ITC Caslon 224 Black
ITC Caslon 224 Black Italic
Caslon 3
Caslon 540
Caslon Bold
Caslon Classico
Caslon Graphique
EF Caslon Graphique
ITC Caslon NO.224
Caslon Old Face
Caslon Open Face
Adobe Caslon Pro
Adobe Caslon Pro Bold
William Caslon Txt

Here in the picture below is Caslon Graphique Typography



 www.linotype.com/88790/caslongraphiqueregular

www.rsub.com/typographic/gallery/caslon.html




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