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Caslon Adobe Capital Long Designed Letters High Horizontal

Name Adobe Caslon
Characteristics
High horizontal crossbar of lowercase “e”.
Capital “T” has long serifs tapering out from thin arms.
Long arm on capital “L”.
History
Caslon refers to a number of serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (1692–1766), and various revivals thereof. Adobe Caslon is a variant designed by Carol Twombly and based on the Caslon’s own specimen pages printed between 1734 and 1770. Small caps, old style figures, swash letters, ligatures, alternate letters, fractions, subscripts and superscripts, and ornaments were included with the Adobe Caslon Expert family.

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