caslon in A Sentence

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    In the mid-1800s, old type-styles started to become fashionable again and Caslon staged a comeback.

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    More-contemporary fonts would soon take over, but in recent years Caslon has been making another comeback.

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    By the early 20th century, the mantra among typesetters on both sides of the Atlantic was,“When in doubt, use Caslon.”.

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    You may not recognize the name, but Caslon- designed by Englishman William Caslon in 1722- is widely considered to be the first typeface created in English.

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    After that, Caslon fell out of favor in the United States for decades- mostly because of its ties to England, from which the new nation wanted to distance itself.

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    Loewy met with the president, and his earliest research on the project took him to the National Archives, where he looked at the first printed copy of the United States Declaration of Independence; he saw the country's name set widely spaced and in upper case in Caslon typeface.

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    When British foundries started shipping the metal forms of Caslon to presses in the New World, they had no way of knowing that American revolutionaries would one day use this“British national type” to print the first copies of the document that would free America from British rule I. e.

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