Caslon Display

Founders Caslon™ Display includes Caslon Old Face in a series of five optical sizes, for use at 22, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 60, and 72-point, each with small capitals, long esses and swash characters. A Poster size is also included, in roman only and without small capitals. Used individually or together, on their own or with Founders Caslon™ Text, these make up one of best families of large display types ever devised.

The Founders Caslon™ project represents a straightforward, approach to the problem of reviving historical type for the desktop: we’ve copied the originals, faults and all, rather than tried to improve on, or reinterpret them. The result? A series of scrupulously accurate fonts which retains the human quality which makes early types worth reviving in the first place.

Caslon Display comes with Caslon Ornaments, a selection of Caslon’s best type ornaments.

Caslon Display is currently available for both Mac and PC in Adobe Type 1 format, and for the PC in Truetype format. An unsupported βeta version in Opentype format is also available, and has been tested with Adobe InDesign. This is offered as a free download only to purchasers of the Type 1 and Truetype fonts.