Caslon Doric
Commercial Type · Paul Barnes · 2018
A nineteenth-century British grotesque system spanning narrow to wide and text to display, drawn by Paul Barnes as part of the wider Caslon programme.
About
A nineteenth-century sans drawn by Paul Barnes that traces the British grotesque tradition from the pioneering faces of Caslon and Figgins in the 1810s and 1820s through to the lowercase, multi-size families that emerged later in the century. Caslon Doric synthesises that line of work into a system spanning narrow to wide and text to display, with Wide, Extended, Condensed, Condensed Round and Condensed Text widths plus Outline so editorial and identity systems can flex across mastheads, body text, signage and packaging.
Classification
Commercial Type frame Caslon Doric as a synthesis of nineteenth-century British sans serif innovations, building on the pioneering faces of Caslon and Figgins and the later embrace of lowercase forms for use at multiple sizes.