Stunning (Gallic?) Serif

Daniel Peterson20 Jul 2014

Does anyone have any ideas about what this might be based on? I know it's called Gallic No.1 from Franklin Vandiver and I'm pretty sure its custom cut of something... but what?

bojev20 Jul 2014#

Maybe Caslon or Fairfield?

kthomps520 Jul 2014#

Caslon and Fairfield are good calls.

To my eye it combines the thick and thin contrast and sharp junctures of a didone (Bodoni/Didot) with the eased serifs of Caslon (as well as Caslon's Q) and Fairfield (as well as Fairfield's C).

A classical revival (Caslon = 1725, Bodoni = 1790) with transitional details (Fairfield = 1949).

Captured from commoncrawl.org on 26 Apr 2015. original URL