Windsor (typeface)

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Windsor (typeface)
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Date created 1905
Designer(s) Eleisha Pechey
Foundry Stephenson Blake

Windsor is a typeface created in 1905 by Eleisha Pechey. Besides the basic font it is also available in two other styles, Light and Roman. Various foundries introduced minor variations so that today there are versions by Linotype, Elsner+Flake, URW+++, Mecanorma and Stephenson Blake.

[edit] Windsor in popular culture

  • The "Whole Earth Catalog" used Windsor font.
  • Almost all the title sequences and credits of Woody Allen's films use sparse, white Windsor over a black background.
  • This style was used in Kevin Smith's "Clerks", and "Clerks - the animated series".

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