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Caslon Old Face is a typeface with multiple optical sizes, including 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 60, 72, 96 points. Each font has small capitals, long esses and swash characters. The 96 point font came in roman only and without small capitals. Caslon Old Face was released in July 2001.
Signs using Johnston, in the London Transport Museum Acton archive. Johnston had become interested in sans-serif letters some years before the commission: although best known as a calligrapher, he had written and worked also on custom lettering, and in his 1906 textbook Writing and Illuminating and Lettering had noted "It is quite possible to make a beautiful and characteristic alphabet of ...
Cairo (1984 by Susan Kare, a dingbat font best known for the dogcow in the 0x7A (lowercase Z) position) LastResort (2001 by Michael Everson, Mac OS X Fallback font) London (1984, Susan Kare), bitmap blackletter. Never converted to TrueType format. San Francisco (1984, Susan Kare), bitmap font in a 'ransom note' style. Never converted to ...
Nine point Geneva is built into Old World ROM Macs. London (blackletter) was an Old English–style font. Los Angeles was a thin font that emulated handwriting. Mobile was a bitmap dingbat font. Before System 6, it was known as Taliesin. Monaco (sans-serif, monospaced) is a fixed-width font well-suited for 9–12 pt use.
Also the official font for all the signage system of the Spanish Government. Modified variant of Gill Sans Bold Condensed used on road signs in former East Germany until 1990. [26] [27] Goudy Old Style: Used on Victoria PTC railway station signs in the 1990s, replacing the green The Met signs.
Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards.. Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground.
In 1913, Frank Pick commissioned him to design a typeface for London Underground, and the simple and clear sans-serif Johnston typeface was the result. In 1913, Johnston was one of the editors of The Imprint, a periodical for the printing industry. For this paper, Monotype made a complete new font: Imprint, series 101, exclusively for use in ...
Vincent Figgins (1766 – 29 February 1844) was a British typefounder based in London, who cast and sold metal type for printing.After an apprenticeship with typefounder Joseph Jackson, he established his own type foundry in 1792.