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Caslon Rounded Ornamented

Commercial Type · Paul Barnes · 2018

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Caslon Rounded Ornamented specimen from Commercial Type

The ornamented variant of Caslon Rounded, decorated in the Victorian display tradition for posters and packaging.

About

An ornamented headline face by Paul Barnes that decorates the rounded skeleton of Caslon Rounded with patterned infill in the Victorian display tradition. Sits alongside the standard, italic and inline cuts of Caslon Rounded as part of the broader Caslon revival programme, useful for short bursts of display typography on posters, packaging, signage and editorial spreads that want a warm, decorated nineteenth-century voice.

Classification

Commercial Type publish Caslon Rounded Ornamented as the ornamented variant within the Caslon Rounded family, drawn from the 1836 Caslon & Catherwood rounded original.

Weights

Regular

Optical sizes and widths

Ornamented

Languages

Latin Extended

Tags

ornamentedroundeddisplayheadlinevictoriandecorativepostercaslon revival