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New Caledonia® from Adobe New Caledonia® is an Adobe font family with 8 styles priced from $29.00. Click a Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information for a particular group of fonts, or see purchase options for the entire family. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: December 3rd, 2007
Designed by: William Addison Dwiggins
Letterform design based on: New Caledonia
Contained in Category: Transitional
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: transitional [suggest]
New Caledonia
William A. Dwiggins designed Caledonia for Linotype in 1939. Initially, he had intended to blend the elements of Scotch Roman and Bulmer typefaces, but ended up with a design that bettered both his models. Dwiggins describes it as having “something of that simple, hard-working, feet-on-the-ground quality that has kept Scotch Roman in service for so many years.”
The Bulmer types gave Caledonia “the liveliness of action the quality is in the curves, the way they get away from the straight stems with a calligraphic flick, and in the nervous angle on the underside of the arches as they descend to the right.”
The result, Caledonia (the Latin name for Scotland), is one of the most widely used book types of all time.
In the late 1980s, Linotype released New Caledonia, removing some of the constraints placed on the original design when it was first produced in metal and augmenting the range of weights for the typeface.
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‘New Caledonia’ is a trademark of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH.
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