Caslon Ionic Rounded

Caslon Ionic Rounded

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Bolder and more robust than the modern, yet lighter and more refined than the Egyptian, the Ionic with its bracketed serif was another innovation of the nineteenth century. Lesser known than Thorowgood’s Clarendon, Caslon’s Ionic No. 2 is a superb example of the form and greatly influenced the newspaper fonts of the next century. Greg Gazdowicz created the Rounded variant of Caslon Ionic in 2025. [vault.commercialtype.com]