Typeface Design for King’s Caslon
A twelve-year Caslon revival
King's Caslon is a Caslon revival designed by Veronika Burian and Ron Carpenter at Dalton Maag, developed from 2007 to 2019. The family comprises four text styles and two display styles, all sharing a distinctive ampersand noted as an iconic feature of the design. It covers Latin script across more than 860 languages.
Set in King's Caslon
Insights
- The revival project spanned 2007–2019.
- The family separates text and display into distinct style categories, in addition to the standard weight and italic axes.
- OpenType features include lining and oldstyle numerals, small caps, discretionary ligatures, fractions, and tabular figures, indicating broad typographic coverage.
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