Clarendon (typeface)

Clarendon is an English slab-serif typeface that was created in England by Robert Besley for the Fann Street Foundry in 1845. Besley went as far as trying to patent the typeface, though this failed. The original matrices and punches remained at Stephenson Blake and later resided at the Type Museum, London. They were marketed by Stephenson Blake as Consort, though some additional weights (a bold and italics) were cut in the 1950s.

It was named after the Clarendon Press in Oxford. The typeface was reworked by the Monotype foundry in 1935 . It was revised by Hermann Eidenbenz in 1953.

Clarendon was used by the United States National Park Service on traffic signs, but has been replaced by NPS Rawlinson Roadway. The font is used by Starbucks on some packaging.

References

External links

• How wood type tamed the west
• List of fonts of the Clarendon typeface family at MyFonts.com
• List of fonts of the Clarendon typeface family at Fonts.com
• List of fonts of the Clarendon typeface family at Linotype.com