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For other uses or meanings of Caslon, see Caslon (disambiguation)
Caslon (disambiguation)
Caslon usually refers to William Caslon of United Kingdom , who was an English gunsmith and designer of typographic fonts. His Caslon typefaces were used in the first printed version of the American Declaration of Independence....

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Caslon Roman is a serif

Serif

In typography, serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface with serifs is called a serif typeface . A typeface without serifs is called sans serif or sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning “without”...

style Caslon

Caslon

Caslon refers to a number of serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I , and various revivals thereof.Caslon shares the irregularity characteristic of Dutch Baroque types. It is characterized by short ascenders and descenders, bracketed serifs, moderately-high contrast, robust texture, and...

family TrueType

TrueType

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Unicode

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Typeface

In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....

, developed by George Williams. It is available free, under BSD-like license or SIL Open Font License

SIL Open Font License

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Character Coverage

The version 001.000 of Caslon has 3,684 characters, with 3,686 glyphs and no kerning pairs. It was released on 2001-12-16 and includes characters from the following Unicode block

Unicode block

In Unicode, a block is defined as one contiguous range of code points. Blocks are named uniquely and have no overlap. They may be defined with the starting and ending code points. The block explicitly can include code points that are unassigned and non-characters. Code points not belonging to any...

s (the number of implemented glyphs in that block is in parenthesis):

Basic Latin (95)
Latin-1 Supplement (96)
Latin Extended-A (128)
Latin Extended-B (178)
IPA Extensions (94)
Spacing Modifier Letters (63)
Combining Diacritical Marks (82)
Greek (and Coptic) (110)
Cyrillic (238)
Cyrillic Supplement (16)
Armenian (85)
Hebrew (83)
Thai (86)
Cherokee (85)
Ogham (29)
Runic (81)
Latin Extended Additional (246)
Greek Extended (233)
General Punctuation (69)
Superscripts and Subscripts (28)
Currency Symbols (16)
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (20)
Letterlike Symbols (59)
Number Forms (49)
Arrows (100)
Mathematical Operators (242)
Miscellaneous Technical (57)
Control Pictures (39)
Enclosed Alphanumerics (73)
Box Drawing (128)
Block Elements (22)
Geometric Shapes (88)
Miscellaneous Symbols (108)
Dingbats (2)
CJK Symbols and Punctuation (9)
Hiragana (90)
Katakana (94)
Private Use Area (148)
Alphabetic Presentation Forms (42)
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (171)
Specials (1)

External links

George Williams' Sample Font Database files
a tarball of the fonts, license and the README, should the homepage link be unreachable.

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