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485:, Miller and Richard, who had been in the forefront of modern face production, led the way to a new development by issuing specimens of a regularized old face which they named Old Style. The new class of old style types, of which this was the first, reverted to gradual shading and to oblique top-serifs, but retained vertical stress, and was a good deal thinner in stroke and larger on the body than the best of the old faces. Types of this kind became popular in the second half of the 19th century, without ousting modern faces. The Monotype machine was introduced to British printers in 1901; the first two type-faces cut for it in England were, first of all, a modern, cut in 1900, and, later in the same year, this old style, adapted from a popular design more recent than that of Miller and Richard….the design is rather thin and colourless; its use is now confined almost entirely to textbooks which make use of its considerable range of special sorts for foreign language composition…the letters are large on the body, light and open, and rather wide. 158: 146: 2059: 20: 189:
copy was their second best-selling typeface of all time in hot metal. Besides simple copies, it helped to create a genre of a wide range of loose revivals and adaptations of the Caslon design, visible in the wide-spreading arms of the T and the sharp half-arrow serifs on many letters. (Ronaldson Old
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and others have used the term "modernised old style" to describe the Miller & Richard designs to reduce ambiguity, although "Old Style" was the name under which Miller and Richard sold it. It is sometimes classified as a "transitional" serif typeface (in the vein of typefaces of the eighteenth
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and the stress is vertical (the top of the round letters uniformly the thinnest part of the letter, rather than at a position of roughly eleven o'clock), reflecting changes in taste since the eighteenth century. The letters are rather wide and the italic is evenly, and rather strongly slanted. The
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in 1956 noted that it was still popular for niche uses due to an extensive character support accumulated over the years of its popularity. More positive reviews come from Nesbitt, who describes it as "a light face, but well-designed throughout" and Macmillan, who describes Phemister's engraving
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In this face the squared or angled shoulder of the m and n, and all other peculiarities of old-style, are strongly emphasized. Note the angled serifs of the lower-case, and the added angles given to many of the capitals...each character has a notable sharpness and
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Style by Alexander Kay was another, as was Phemister's own later Franklin, created after he had emigrated to the United States.) Legros and Grant parodied the large number of copies of Old Style in their 1916 textbook on printing technology,
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Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book: A Directory of Over 10,200 Terms, Organizations, Projects and Acronyms in the Areas of Information Management, Library Science, Publishing and Archive Management
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Reviews of the aesthetic quality of Old Style in the mid-twentieth century were often low, despite its precise and careful design, and it declined in popularity. While recognising its practicality in his book
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in a different genre, known in the USA as the "Scotch" style. It has a 't' where the horizontal and vertical strokes make a right angle at top left. Monotype's Series 20 OId Style Special is a loose Caslon
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A Sequel to An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets by John Carter and Graham Pollard.; The Forgeries of H. Buxton Forman & T.J. Wise Re-examined
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Released at a time when Caslon type was coming back into fashion, Old Style became a standard typeface sold by many foundries. It was also copied by the new
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The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the Point System, the Names, Sizes, Styles, and Prices of Plain Printing Types
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The Practice of Typography: a treatise on the processes of type-making, the point system, the names, sizes, styles and faces of Plain Printing Types
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is a descendant of a bolder version of the Old Style face, known in the nineteenth century as Old Style Antique. ("Antique" in this case means a
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Like Caslon, Old Style has slanting top serifs and an avoidance of abrupt transitions of weight, but compared to Caslon it is much lighter in
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The exact date of Old Style's release is apparently uncertain as Miller & Richard published specimens erratically, but according to
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Monotype's "Series 46" "Old Style", with a quite different design is also based on a Miller & Richard typeface, but a
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The name "old style" is confusing, as it and "old face" have been used differently by different authors to refer to "true
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found it and other typefaces of the period excessively light on the paper, although some have felt that his custom
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Miller & Richard's original specimen for their Old Style fonts, in a mock-traditional style with the
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in 1935 as "a sort of diluted version of Caslon", by Williamson as "rather thin and colourless", by
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Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 4: Professionalism and Diversity 1880-2000
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from the 1720s, but with a modernised design. It was immediately very successful: the 1880s
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Alexander Phemister, were made in imitation of earlier styles of typeface, particularly the
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Old Style in a Miller & Richard specimen, showing its quite wide, light structure.
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Old Style Italic in a Miller & Richard specimen. The italic has a strong slant.
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Effra Press, showing Monotype Old Style series 2 & 151 and bold weights
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Several digitisations are available, often of later hot metal adaptations.
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The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure
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describes its popularity as "unsurpassed in the annals of type-founding".
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describes it as "large on the body, light and open, and rather wide".
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The Old Style faces of Miller & Richard, reportedly cut by
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The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV: 1893-1896
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century such as Baskerville) due to these modernisations.
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Dates are approximate only. Not all typefaces shown.
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cut from the mid-nineteenth century and sold by the
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Index


long s
ligatures
serif
typefaces
type foundry
Miller & Richard
Edinburgh
Scotland
punchcutter
Caslon
William Caslon
James Mosley
colour
Baskerville
Hugh Williamson
old-style
Walter Tracy
Bookman Old Style
slab serif
Old Style in a Miller & Richard specimen, showing its quite wide, light structure.
Old Style Italic in a Miller & Richard specimen. The italic has a strong slant.
hot metal typesetting
Monotype
Linotype
Monotype's
A Tally of Types
Stanley Morison
William Morris
Times New Roman

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