Clarendon (typeface)
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| Typeface | Clarendon |
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| Category | Serif |
| Classifications | Slab serif |
| Designer(s) | Robert Besley |
| Foundry | Fann Street |
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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 latterly at the Type Museum, London. They were marketed by Stephenson Blake as Consort, though some additional weights (a bold and italics) were cut in 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.
A modified version of the Clarendon typeface is used by the United States National Park Service on traffic signs.
