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Introduction
Many typeface catalogs, including our own, group all serif typefaces together under one umbrella-category. But in truth, there are many different kinds of serifs, e.g., Renaissance serifs, baroque serifs, unbracketed modern serifs, Latin serifs, wedge serifs, etc. One of the most popular styles of seriffed letter, especially for display type, remains the slab serif.
The slab serif is a genre of letterforms that has been in use for almost 200 years. Throughout this time, many [...]
Margaret Calvert (born 1936) created the font Calvert™ as a contemporary interpretation of the slab serif style (less mechanistic than many, owing more to humanist letterforms) in 1980.
Calvert Font Family is part of the Monotype Library OpenType Edition.
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About Calvert™ by Adobe Font Family ...
Designer: Margaret Calvert, 1980
The Calvert™ by Adobe Font Family is part of the Monotype Originals.
The slab serif typeface Calvert was designed by Margaret Calvert with a marked constructed look. The unique design of its serifs distinguishes this typeface. Many figures have only half serifs, for instance, the A, M, and X, which lends the typeface its constructed character. Calvert is timelessly modern, static and stable, and is therefore particularly good for headlines.
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