Windsor (typeface)

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Windsor
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Category Serif
Classification Display
Designer(s) Elisha Pechey
Foundry Stephenson Blake
Date created1905

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.

Contents

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]

See also

References

  1. "Eleisha Pechey". Linotype. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  2. "Windsor". MyFonts. Bitstream. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  3. "Windsor Elongated in a Stephenson Blake brochure". Daily Type Specimen. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  4. "New Spirit". Miles Newlyn. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  5. Woody Allen's typography: Is this fetish or brand identity?from kitblog.com Archived 2009-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Mere Anarchy ( ISBN   0091920213) from WorldCat
  7. Kemp, Sophie (2021-04-22). "The Radical Origins of 2021's Favorite Font". GQ . Archived from the original on 2024-02-04. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
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