ITC Clearface Bold

Oh yeah...

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Dr. Ken Lunde
Senior Computer Scientist, CJKV Type Development
Adobe Systems Incorporated
lunde@adobe.com

Jan,

Very close, thanks. The S&W type has older looking, more rounded off serifs. Is there an older predecessor to Clearface that might be closer? Also, in order to get the yellow (Clearface) to be close to the underlying (blue) original, I did a LOT of horizontal scaling, kerning and even baseline shifting.

For perspective though, S&W told me they use Garamond Bold to approximate it. It doesn't.

Thanks for the input!

Joshua

Forgot the image...

Is there an older predecessor to Clearface that might be closer?

Clearface was designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders in 1907. In 1978, under license from ATF, the International Typeface Corporation commissioned Vic Caruso to develop it into a family of four weights with corresponding italics. ... And then it went digital. So, transformations happened.

To answer your questions: Not in digital form.

Many thanks.