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Perhaps one of the great fonts of all time. How many books have I read in Caslon?
Because this font set is sealed I’ll keep it that way and suggest searching for catalog images. I’m sure it looks very much like the “sample” Zi pulled from the internet.
FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION
Ben Lieberman, in his Types of Typefaces (1967) summing up views of Caslon:
“[Caslon] is perhaps the most controversial face in history. Some persons consider it the greatest type ever (they have popularized a motto, ‘When in doubt, use Caslon’) and others think it overrated, a collection of mistakes, elusively out of keeping with everything. But—it works, is highly readable, alive, with warmth and open dignity that has no pretense whatsoever. Caslon is the prime example of a typeface in which the individual letters are nothing, but the total effect is strong and honest—the reverse of an all-star performance in which each letter has such perfection that it competes to be noticed.”
