French Clarendon RoundedShop for french clarendon on Etsy, the place to express your creativity through the buying and selling of handmade and vintage goods. French Clarendon wood in use. William Page first showed a French Clarendon as wood type in James Conners Sons Typographic Messenger, in November, 1865. All. French AntiqueClarendon Extended in use. A group of wide, horizontally stressed slabs originating in the mid 1800s. Known in the US and UK as French Antique Extended. Little Clarendon Street Oxford OX1 2HP. Tel 01865 316616. Les Menus Les Vins Home Opening Hours About Us Find Us Jobs. French Clarendon N2 Regular Font Licensing Options and Technical Information. Dell Optiplex 170L Sound Drivers For Windows Xp. Know your type Clarendon idsgn a design blogFor the fifth installment in our Know your type series we look to Clarendonan influential typeface that helped tame the Wild West, and the first to ever be patented. A significant change. Named after Oxfords Clarendon Press, the popular slab serif was created in 1. Robert Besley for the Fann Street Foundry. Notable as one of the last new developments in nineteenth century typography, the letterforms represented a significant change from the slab serif Antiques and Egyptians that were so popular in that time. The most useful founts that a printer can have in his office are the Clarendons they make a striking word or line either in a hand bill or title page, and do not overwhelm the other lines. They have been made with great care, so that while they are distinct and striking, they possess a very graceful outline, avoiding on one hand the clumsy inelegance of the Antique or Egyptian character, hitherto in use among printers, and on the other, the appearance of an ordinary Roman letter thickened by long use under the machine. Printed in Fann Street Foundrys 1. Type Specimen Book. The original Clarendon is considered a condensed face today, visible in typefaces such as Besley Clarendon by Hi. H Retrofonts a foundry that specialized in digitizing historical fonts. Wanted dead or aliveClarendon became hugely popular, leading Besley to register the design under Britains Ornamental Designs Act of 1. Unfortunately, the patent expired three years later, with many competing foundries quickly copying its design once the hold was released. Using his own typeface, this is how Besley reacted Clarendon is considered the first to design a related bold for emphasizing text as seen above. Many variations of the typeface, including the popular French Clarendon, appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century. The reason it was so widely copied is simple it was extremely useful. It provided the attention getting boldness to highlight a word or phrase, yet at the same time was compact and easier to read than the fat faces and antiques of the period, says Hi. H Retrofonts. Becoming a popular wood type, Clarendon is also notable as a common choice on WANTED signs of the old west. Unrelated to type design, Robert Besely later went on to become the Lord Mayor of London in 1. Clarendon today. The typeface was released by Monotype in 1. Hermann Eidenbenz. It was also marketed by the Stephenson Blake foundry as Consort in the 1. Remaining a popular choice for over a century, many of todays most recognized logotypes are based on the Clarendon style. Clarendon was also used in the United States on National Park traffic signs, until being recently replaced by NPS Rawlinson Roadway. Today most major foundries have their own digital version of Clarendon with dozens if not hundreds of other fonts influenced by the Clarendon style Red Roosters Consort, PSYOPS Oxtail, Adobes Rosewood, URWs Volta, Canada Types Clarendon Text, Parkinsons Sutro, Font Bureaus Belizio and Giza, to name a few. Besleys orginal matrices and punches can now be found at Londons Type Museum.