Date: 1812
Designer:
Richard Austin
Foundry:
Miller and Richards Foundry, Wilson Foundry
Location:
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland
Current equivalent:
Miller
See also:
FB Scotch by David Berlow, FB Escrow by Cyrus Highsmith, MT Scotch Roman, Caledonia by W. A. Dwiggins
Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Metal (machine)
Photosetting
Postscript
Opentype
Famous for:
Most popular and enduring fraktur.
Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting
Ubiquity:
Average use
Category:
Modern Roman
Stress: Vertical
Serifs: Transitional
Design history:
A late Modern face, designed by a punch cutter who supplied two Scottish foundries, Scotch Roman became a generic name used to describe types imported to America from Scotland in the early 1800s, where it was widely adopted and often imitated. These types were complimented by a set of italic capitals and numerals that were halfway in size between the oldstyle (non lining) and ranging numerals established in Bell. Showing some of the degradation of form (later to be complained about by William Morris) when compared with Didot and Bodoni's types, Scotch Roman often looks spidery and thin on the page. Widely used as a newspaper and magazine publishing face, Scotch Roman is well favoured in America.
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