Capitals M and W are widely splayed, P and R have very large upper bowls. The lowercase a, h, m and n of the Windsor font have angled right hand stems, e has an angled cross-stroke. Bitstream in their release notes to its digitisation call it 'a creative variation on the old-style form'.[2]
Releases
Various foundries have released versions, including Linotype, Elsner+Flake, URW++ and Mecanorma. As many early digitisations were sublicensed, several of these may represent the same digitisation marketed by different rights-holders, possibly upgraded with modern features such as contextual ligature substitution. A range of weights have been created for it, such as condensed, outline, and bold.[3]
An unrelated face, also called Windsor, was designed by Edwin W. Shaar for Intertype in 1960.
Miles Newlyn designed the New Spirit typeface, based on the Windsor typeface.[4]
Windsor Bold is also the typeface used in the 1980s trading card series Garbage Pail Kids.[9]
For a majority of its run, and following its expansion to an hour long in 1975, The Price Is Right flashed phrases during the intro that were in Windsor. Originally, the phrase "One Hour" was flashed in an unknown script font, but by mid-December 1975, it was switched to "Hour Power" in Windsor, and the font remained in use until the opening titles were abandoned in 2009. Some episodes, particularly specials, instead used Cooper Black beginning in the late 1990s; this was abandoned in the fall of 2007.
A condensed version of Windsor is used on the letter strips in Parker Brothers' 1978 game Punch Line.[10]
For Sesame Street, the Windsor font was used for the album cover "Let a Frown Be Your Umbrella" by Oscar the Grouch.
The heavier weight variations of Windsor are occasionally used as the mini-heading or the alternative wordmark for the Hellboy series.[11][12]
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