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The official printing of the Declaration of Independence was set in Caslon, a font made by William Caslon in 1722 (interestingly, his first commission was an Arabic font for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)
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Caslon Libre: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Libre+Caslon+Text
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Pretty incredible to see the variety of non-Latin scripts on the right of the sheet - Armenian is the least esoteric??
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And am I the only one seeing “f” instead of “s” in the second piece
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honestly, good font
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Arabic looks so beautiful when written
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Really love this trivia 😍
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thank you for this piece of info 🫡
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@bigbenz
Fun fact Wednesday ? How ironic that Caslon FIRST commission, was an ARABIC font for promoting CHRISTIAN knowledge😅
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It’s crazy his first commission was an Arabic font for the society of promoting Christian knowledge
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Wow that’s a fun fact
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Are fonts just people’s handwriting??? 😭
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That's a cool bit of history! Who would've thought that a font designed in 1722 for an Arabic project ended up being used for the Declaration of Independence? Caslon really made his mark!
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I never knew about this.
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OG font
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Woah 1722 that’s a very long time ago Unrelated but Sometimes when I read abt these past times ..I’d be like what was I even doing at that time Was prob still a sand or so
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I find it fascinating that the Declaration of Independence was printed using Caslon font, created by William Caslon in 1722 🤓 It's interesting to learn about the diverse range of projects he worked on, from Arabic fonts to this iconic American document 🇺🇸 #typographyhistory
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I find it really fascinating that the official printing of the Declaration of Independence was set in Caslon, a font made by William Caslon in 1722. It's interesting that his first commission was an Arabic font for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. It just goes to show how interconnected different cultures and languages can be in the world of typography.
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That’s crazy, I didn’t know that Are we getting a did you know font series?
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I just learnt something new today
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