![]() ![]() Several interesting touches, whether included by accident or design, make for great amusement: wrong font letters like a monoline L and x, a bold weight F, a ‘shoelace’ X, miscellaneous lower case letters throughout, and even a flopped roman A (with modifications). It seems most unlikely that this collection will be able to float alone, but it may find a place next to numerous time-tested typefaces, if for no reason other than its outstanding entertainment value. Sign painter and typeface designer John Downer adds the following: “Not Caslon, as the name implies, is surely one of the most comical and exuberant works of alphabet art that owes any (in this case, literally every) part of its being to swashy, 20th-century American, Caslon-inspired italics. The peculiar swashes and inconsistent italic letterforms are all pieces of Caslon Swash Italic broken press type, rearranged and spontaneously formed. The main influence for NotCaslon is New Orleans, with its 18th and 19th century French Quarter balconies, old cemetery crosses and Voudou veve designs. The main influence for NotCaslon is New Orleans, with its 18th and 19th century French Quarter balconies, old cemetery crosses and Voudou veve designs. Adobe Caslon Regular Small Caps & Oldstyle Figures Font Info. Adobe Caslon font family series mainly provide ItalicOsF,Ornaments,Regular,RegularSC,Semibold,SemiboldItalic,SemiboldItalicOsF,SemiboldSC,SwashBoldItalic,SwashItalic. This collection of initials was created by illustrator Mark Andresen who rubbed down bits and pieces of dry transfer lettering: flakes, nicks, and all. This collection of initials was created by illustrator Mark Andresen who rubbed down bits and pieces of dry transfer lettering: flakes, nicks, and all.
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