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Caslon Typogr.|ˈkæzlən|
The name of William Caslon, father (1692–1766) and son (1720–1778), applied to the type foundry established by the father, and to the old-face type cut there, or (later) one cut in imitation of this. Also Comb., as Caslon-shaped adj.
1825T. C. Hansard Typographia 353 The Caslon foundry is still upheld. 1836Gentl. Mag. May 557/2 The printers, whose offices were generally stored with the Caslon founts. Ibid. 558/1 The true Caslon-shaped Elzevir types. 1898J. Southward Mod. Printing I. xxii. 136 The Elzevir types prevailed for a long time all over Europe; and the first William Caslon adopted them as his models—hence his types are known as Caslon Elzevirs. 1922Updike Printing Types II. 106 Caslon types are..beautiful in mass, and above all..legible. 1927McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. 300 It may perhaps be well to warn the reader that ‘Caslon’ as applied to type has not an absolutely precise connotation. Though, for example, the founts of different sizes cut by Caslon himself are in the same general style, the forms of the letters do not correspond with mathematical exactness... When it is added that ‘Caslon’ founts have been repeatedly cut in modern times, it will be evident that we must be prepared for a certain range of variety. Ibid. 301 The Caslon italic retained something of the angularity of the current script. Ibid. 305 The thick strokes of ‘old style’ are on the whole thinner than in Caslon. |