Portrait of the typographer William Caslon
William Caslon (Cradley, Worcestershire, 1692 - Bethnal Green, London, 1766) Was a British-type designer and maker.
Their typographies are influenced by the types cast in the Netherlands which by the time of Caslon were very common in the United Kingdom. His work influenced the typographer John Baskerville, who along with Caslon is considered the progenitor of the transition fonts that set the standard for the development of modern Roman typographies.
Caslon typefaces were popular and used for many important print jobs, including the first version of the US Declaration of Independence, however, these types fell into disuse in the early nineteenth century, but their use was revived in the 1840s, being widely used again. With the advent of computer science and computer-based printing systems, Caslon's typographies were digitally rescued and revived.
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