Raleigh™ Font Family

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The British designer Robert Norton (born 24. 5. 1929 in London, died 7. 3. 2001 in West Huntspill, Somerset) created the fonts Else NPL™ (1982), Horley Old Style™ (1977) and Raleigh™ (1978). These fonts are included in the Linotype Library.

Adrian Williams began his career converting many established metal designs for the new filmsetting devices in1969; an era when other equipment manufacturers offered their devices, each with its own kind of unit system for the operating program. During the 70s he became involved with converting typefaces to digitised systems and is responsible for many original designs which he redrew, working with each manufacturer to make fonts for their unique formats. This led to the production of custom [...]

Raleigh font was produced in 1977 by Robert Norton, and was based on Carl Dair's Cartier font, which was designed for the Canadian Centennial and the 1967 Montreal World's Fair.
It was renamed Raleigh after Dair's death. Adrian Williams added three weights for a display series, and Robert Norton designed the text version.