#Founders caslon font series
The R in the Miller & Richard range seemed slightly too awkward for a contemporary setting, so the Doric No.7 Series was consulted. A key glyph that demonstrates the departure from strict revivalism is the R. Founders Grotesk is a gentle amalgamation of several fonts, resolutely designed for contemporary typographic usage. However, Founders Grotesk is not intended as strict revival-the Miller & Richard Grotesques are simply used as a starting point. Left: Grotesque No.3, Miller & Richard, 1912. The revival decision can be further exacerbated by groupings of seemingly unrelated fonts under a single name, like the above Breite Grotesks from the Bauerschen Giesserei foundry. Breite Grotesk, Bauerschen Giesserei, 1851 Caslon Doric No.4 series.Ĭorps 14 compared to Corps 40. The example above demonstrates the variety of a single letterform found in the H.W.
Even if a letterform is exactly the same shape throughout every size, ink squeeze and paper stocks would ensure distortion. Before digital type each point size was cut specifically, creating necessary variations in letter shapes, spacing and proportions. One of the decisions revivalists face is which size of metal type to base their design. The top row is original scale, the bottom is rescaled to common size. I have learned that graphic designers see typefaces differently to type designers-it is wise to take note when their interest is piqued. As Duncan is an excellent graphic designer, he saw potential in the Grotesques. Even though I was aware of these styles, I hadn’t considered their possibility for contemporary interpretation. He noted the appealing rudimentary geometry, the serpentine S, and the narrow but welcome aperture of the C and G.
After trawling through my 1912 Miller & Richard specimen, he became enamoured with their series of Grotesques, particularly the No.7 all-caps showing. We had often discussed the nature and usefulness of the classic grotesks, and the possibility of creating a new one. We can potentially generate it using ImageMagick in a CI environment.Īs described here:, we can use the magick convert command to generate this exact same logo.The impetus for Founders Grotesk originally came from Duncan Forbes of The International Office. The CalConnect logo is in the Futura font. The following demonstration shows how useful this is in a CI environment. This font must not be modified, embedded or exchanged in any manner without first obtaining permission of the legal owner. Its macOS licensing allows for embedding in produced documents:
#Founders caslon font for free
This is to allow CI jobs on macOS environments to use these specially licensed fonts that are not available on other platforms.įor instance, the "Futura" font is popular for designed documents, but it is a proprietary font that is only available for free on macOS and not any other platform.
We should also add a blog post to show how this is useful in CI environments.įontist now allows installing macOS-specific add-on fonts via the fontist command-line interface. WARNING: Fontist does not allow installing macOS-specific fonts on non-macOS platforms due to font licensing of those fonts.
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