| Date: 1845
Designer:
Benjamin Fox / Robert Besley
Foundry:
Fann Street Foundry
Location:
London, England
Current equivalent:
FB Belizio
See also:
Linotype Clarendon LT, ATF Craw Clarendon, HaasClarendon, New Clarendon, Consort, Bauer Fortune, Century Schoolbook
Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Metal (machine)
Photosetting
Postscript
Opentype |
| Famous for:
The first of a whole category of Victorian typefaces. Applications: Newspaper Publishing Ubiquity:
Very widely used Category:
Clarendon/Egyptian Stress: Vertical
Serifs: Bracketed slab serif | | Design history:
Designed for the Clarendon Press in England, and closely related to the Ionic and Doric styles, Clarendon can be seen as an outgrowth of the early Egyptian styles. A hallmark of the English industrial revolution and also of British imperialism, Clarendon is a slab serif typeface, evenly weighted, and designed initially in one weight with no italic. Contemporary to the invention of steam-driven presses and chemical-pulp papermaking, this type became the basis of the 'legibility' group, as it was very forgiving of poor presswork and reproduced well in the new medium of newsprint. Clarendon was the basis of Morris Fuller Benton's Century Schoolbook in 1924, while its close relative, Ionic, was redesigned by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1934.
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