{"id":19982,"date":"2010-08-31T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=19982"},"modified":"2010-09-02T00:42:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T07:42:50","slug":"the-1841-caslon-type-specimen-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/19982","title":{"rendered":"The 1841 Caslon Type Specimen Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=LVsJAAAAQAAJ&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;dq=subject:%22Type+and+type-founding%22&#038;lr=&#038;ei=4JDBS-HKBIrelQTM2Z2zCQ&#038;cd=39#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Caslon1841_01.jpg\" width=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Caslon family took type to much bolder heights in the 19th century. And a copy of their 1841 specimen book can be perused thanks to Google Books.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=LVsJAAAAQAAJ&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;dq=subject:%22Type+and+type-founding%22&#038;lr=&#038;ei=4JDBS-HKBIrelQTM2Z2zCQ&#038;cd=39#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=LVsJAAAAQAAJ&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;dq=subject:%22Type+and+type-founding%22&#038;lr=&#038;ei=4JDBS-HKBIrelQTM2Z2zCQ&#038;cd=39#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Caslon1841_02.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=LVsJAAAAQAAJ&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;dq=subject:%22Type+and+type-founding%22&#038;lr=&#038;ei=4JDBS-HKBIrelQTM2Z2zCQ&#038;cd=39#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Caslon1841_03.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=LVsJAAAAQAAJ&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;dq=subject:%22Type+and+type-founding%22&#038;lr=&#038;ei=4JDBS-HKBIrelQTM2Z2zCQ&#038;cd=39#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Caslon1841_04.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=LVsJAAAAQAAJ&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;dq=subject:%22Type+and+type-founding%22&#038;lr=&#038;ei=4JDBS-HKBIrelQTM2Z2zCQ&#038;cd=39#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Caslon1841_05.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/ilovetypography.com\" target=\"_blank\">I love typography<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"The 1841 Caslon Type Specimen Book\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/19982\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caslon family took type to much bolder heights in the 19th century. And a copy of their 1841 specimen book can be perused thanks to Google Books. Go here. Found via I love typography Tweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,127,120],"tags":[67,58,122],"class_list":["post-19982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-history","category-fonts","category-typography","tag-fonts","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19982"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20254,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions\/20254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}