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Luke specimen from The Northern Block

A contemporary blackletter family drawn from 19th-century Caslon Foundry sources, spanning twelve styles from thin to thick contours with a variable font included.

About

Named after the Caslon family tomb at St Luke Old Street in London, this family draws its core forms from a distinctive 19th-century Caslon blackletter. Twelve styles cover a range from light outlines to fully filled weights, making the family workable for both text-setting and display use. Each font includes 641 glyphs with OpenType support for ligatures, contextual alternates and fractions, covering 37 languages across South, East and Western Europe.

Classification

Explicitly described as a contemporary adaptation of historic English Blackletter, inspired by 19th-century Caslon Foundry blackletter forms.

Weights

ThinLightRegularMediumBoldBlack

Languages

Latin

Tags

blackletterhistoricalenglishdisplaytextcontemporaryvariable