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Category | Serif |
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Classification | Display |
Designer(s) | Elisha Pechey |
Foundry | Stephenson Blake |
Date created | 1905 |
Windsor is a serif typeface created by Elisha Pechey (1831-1902) and released by the Stephenson Blake type foundry. [1] It is intended for use such as display and in headings rather than for body text.
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]
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]
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