Caslon Roman

Caslon Roman

: "For other uses or meanings of Caslon, see Caslon (disambiguation)."Caslon Roman is a serif style "Caslon" family TrueType Unicode font, developed by George Williams. It is available for free, under BSD-like license or SIL Open Font License.

This font has 3,684 characters (3,686 glyphs and no kerning pair) in v001.000 (16-12-2001). It includes characters from the following Unicode blocks : Basic Latin (95), Latin-1 Supplement (96), Latin Extended-A (128), Latin Extended-B (178), IPA Extensions (94), Spacing Modifier Letters (63), Combining Diacritical Marks (82), Greek (and Coptic) (110), Cyrillic (238), Cyrillic Supplement (16), Armenian (85), Hebrew (83), Thai (86), Cherokee (85), Ogham (29), Runic (81), Latin Extended Additional (246), Greek Extended (233), General Punctuation (69), Superscripts and Subscripts (28), Currency Symbols (16), Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (20), Letterlike Symbols (59), Number Forms (49), Arrows (100), Mathematical Operators (242), Miscellaneous Technical (57), Control Pictures (39), Enclosed Alphanumerics (73), Box Drawing (128), Block Elements (22), Geometric Shapes (88), Miscellaneous Symbols (108), Dingbats (2), CJK Symbols and Punctuation (9), Hiragana (90), Katakana (94), Private Use Area (148), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (42), Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (171), Specials (1).

ee also

* List of typefaces
* Unicode fonts
* FontForge, a font creator program, developed by the author of this font.

External links

* [http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/sfds/index.html George Williams' Sample Font Database files]
* [http://www.altlinux.com/index.php?module=sisyphus&package=gw-fonts-ttf Altlinux : gw-fonts-ttf-1.0-alt5.src.rpm : CaslonRoman.ttf] , Free Unicode TrueType fonts by George Williams, packaged by Vyacheslav Dikonov.
* [http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gw-fonts-ttf/gw-fonts-ttf_1.0.orig.tar.gz a tarball of the fonts, license and the README] , should the homepage link be unreachable.


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