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Clarendon is a slab-serif typeface that was created by Robert Besley for Thorowgood and Co. (or Thorowgood and Besley) of London, a letter foundry often known as the Fann Street Foundry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Selections from the specimen book of the Fann Street Foundry )〕 It was apparently named after the Clarendon Press in Oxford. The typeface was published in 1845 after Besley, an employee of the foundry since 1826, was made a partner in the firm.〔 〕 Due to its popularity, Besley registered the typeface under Britain's Ornamental Designs Act of 1842. The patent expired three years later, and other foundries were quick to copy it.〔http://popperfont.com/2008/06/27/fontlove-clarendon/ 〕 Besley was nonetheless successful in business, and became the Lord Mayor of London in 1869.〔 Clarendon is considered the first registered typeface. Clarendon types proved extremely popular in many parts of the world, in particular for display applications such as posters printed with wood type. They are therefore commonly associated with wanted posters of the American Old West.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Old West Reward Posters )〕 ==Revivals== The original Clarendon became the property of Stephenson Blake in 1906, who marketed a release named Consort, cutting some additional weights (a bold and italics) in the 1950s. The original matrices and punches were transferred to the Type Museum collection when Stephenson Blake left the printing business in 1996. Designs for wood type were made from the mid-1840s on. The typeface was reworked by Monotype in 1935.〔http://www.identifont.com/show?4J3〕 Hermann Eidenbenz and Edouard Hoffmann cut a version, based on Besley's original design, in 1953.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hermann Eidenbenz - Linotype Font Designer Gallery )〕〔http://www.identifont.com/find?font=Clarendon&q=Go〕 Freeman Craw drew the ''Craw Clarendon'' family, a once popular American version, released by American Type Founders, in 1955, with light, bold and condensed variants. A variety of Clarendon revivals have been made since the original design, often adapting the design to different widths and weights. The original Clarendon design did not feature an italic, and many early Clarendon designs, being intended for headings, have capitals only with no lower-case letters, leaving many options for individual adaptation. An italic is particularly important in any design intended to be used for body type, and so designs have variously attempted to create an italic or offered obliques instead, a less conventional option for serif typefaces in which the characters are simply slanted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.typography.com/fonts/sentinel/history/ )〕 ''Volta'', sold as ''Fortune'' in the U.S., was a very modern view of Clarendon, designed by Konrad Friedrich Bauer and Walter Baum for the Bauer Type Foundry, also in 1955. It features an italic in the medium weight. Aldo Novarese drew the ''Egizio'' family for Nebiolo, in Turin, Italy in 1958. The design included (somewhat eccentric) matching italics.〔 David Berlow, of the Font Bureau, expanded that same family and released it as ''Belizio'' in 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Font Bureau Fonts | Belizio )〕 Ray Larabie, of Typodermic, released the ''Superclarendon'' family in 2007, using obliques instead of italics. A wide, display-oriented design with small caps and Greek and Cyrillic support, it is bundled with OS X. The ''Clarendon Text'' family with italics inspired by Egizio, was released by Patrick Griffin of Canada Type, that same year. ''Sentinel'', from Hoefler & Frere-Jones, another typeface family based on Clarendon with italics added, was designed in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sentinel Fonts | H&FJ )〕 Intended to have less eccentric italics suitable for body text use, it has been featured heavily in President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign website advertisements. Canada Type's Patrick Griffin came back to expand his Clarendon family with ''Clarendon Wide'' in 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clarendon (typeface)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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