A 48-style flared serif drawing on Louis Perrin's lapidary revivals and Berthold Wolpe's lettering instincts, offered in standard, narrow and condensed widths.
About
Built across three widths and eight weights each with matching italics, the family totals 48 styles that span delicate text settings at Thin through to commanding display work at Black. The design sits at the intersection of 19th-century French inscriptional letterforms and early 20th-century continental lettering, a lineage that gives it historical grounding without antiquarian stiffness. OpenType features include oldstyle figures, small capitals, tabular figures and discretionary ligatures, with alternates for v, w and z in italic styles.
Classification
Cambon is described as a flared serif drawing on the historical sensibilities of Louis Perrin's revivals and Berthold Wolpe's lettering traditions, placing it firmly in the humanist-influenced flared or lapidary serif category rather than a conventional old-style or transitional classification.