Industry: Design

Display Typeface for Print and Web

A Caslon revival engineered across three optical sizes and three scripts

William Display is Typotheque's contemporary revival of William Caslon's eighteenth-century types, designed by Maria Doreuli across Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. Intended for settings above 36 points, it forms the largest of three optical sizes alongside Text and Subhead cuts, each differentiated by adjusted stroke contrast, letter proportions, and spacing to suit distinct size ranges.

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Insights

Optical sizes differ not only in stroke contrast but also in vertical and horizontal letter proportions and spacing, treating each size range as a distinct design problem.
Maria Doreuli reviewed the original Caslon Foundry's ornament archive—over 2,600 pieces—and selected more than 200 combinable decorative elements for William.
Nine numeral variants are included: proportional old-style (default), lining, small caps, tabular lining, tabular old-style, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted; licensees can select their own default.
Greek encoding was contributed by Irene Vlachou; font engineering across all three scripts was handled by Roberto Arista.