Caledonia (typeface)
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| Typeface | Caledonia |
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| Category | Serif |
| Classifications | Transitional serif |
| Designer(s) | William Addison Dwiggins |
| Foundry | Mergenthaler Linotype Company |
| Date released | 1938 |
Caledonia is a transitional serif typeface designed by William Addison Dwiggins in 1938 for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.
Dwiggins chose the name Caledonia, the Roman name for Scotland, to express the face's basis on an early nineteenth century Scotch Roman type. The face has a more vertical stress than an old style garalde faces, with mostly unbracketed horizontal serifs. The G is open and the R has a curved tail. the t is unbracketed. Italic characters p and q have no foot serif. The character set, as drawn by Dwiggins was wide, including ranging (old style) figures, lining figures, and small capitals in the text and bold weights. A Greek version of the face is available. Caledonia ranks with Times New Roman as one of the most used book text faces. A digital version, called New Caledonia, available in four weights: text, semibold, bold, and black, each with small capitals, was released in 1982.
[edit] References
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