LLT Willy Caslon
LLT Willy Caslon is a Caslon that got out of the museum. High contrast, sharp bracketed serifs and an italic with a genuine calligraphic slope give it an editorial temper, while the heavier cuts hold together at billboard scale.
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The revival started from printed proofs rather than punches, so the design keeps the softness and irregularity of ink on paper instead of chasing an idealised outline. The lowercase a and g were redrawn several times before the family settled on a compromise between historical fidelity and contemporary spacing.
The italic is not a slanted roman: it has its own construction, narrower and more written, with entry and exit strokes that connect the rhythm of a line. Mixing roman and italic inside a single headline — as the specimen above does — is a use case the spacing was tested against.
Specimen posters
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