Classification: Dutch Old Style

  1. Big Caslon Typeface
    Designer: Matthew Carter ; Foundry: Font Bureau, Carter & Cone, Caslon

    Big Caslon is a revival based on the three largest sizes of type from the H.W. Caslon & Sons foundry…

  2. Custodia OT Typeface
    Designer: Fred Smeijers ; Foundry: OurType
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    Custodia, designed by Fred Smeijers, is a refinement of seventeenth-century Dutch flavours. Designed in 2002 for publications of the Custodia…

  3. Farnham Typeface
    Designer: Johann Fleischman, Christian Schwartz ; Foundry: Font Bureau

    Farnham by Christian Schwartz and released by Font Bureau is a ridiculously diverse typeface. In its black display form, it…

  4. Haarlemmer Typeface
    Designer: Jan van Krimpen, Frank E. Blokland ; Foundry: Linotype
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    This is a Bible type – which is to say, a plain face with large x-height – designed for Monotype…

  5. Janson Typeface
    Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith ; Foundry: Linotype
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    The Hungarian punchcutter Miklós Kis designed and cut this typeface in about 1685 while working in Amsterdam. It was not…

  6. Joos Typeface
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    Joos Lambrecht, from Ghent, is one of the first important printers and punchcutters of the sixteenth century. He criticized frankly…

  7. Mercury Display Typeface
    Designer: Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones ; Foundry: Hoefler & Frere-Jones

    “A succinct family of display faces, Mercury answers the call for a contemporary serif that’s smart, quick, and articulate. The…

  8. Tierra Nueva Typeface
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    When ‘by chance’ in 2004 I discovered the map of America from 1562, that was created by the spanish cartographer…