Caslon Roman is a serif style "Caslon" family TrueType Unicode font, developed by George Williams. It is available for free, under BSD-like license. In typography, serifs are the structural details on the end of strokes that make up letters and symbols. ... TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobes Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ...

This font has 3,684 characters (3,686 glyphs and no kerning pair) in v001.000 (16-12-2001). It includes characters from the following Unicode blocks : Basic Latin (95), Latin-1 Supplement (96), Latin Extended-A (128), Latin Extended-B (178), IPA Extensions (94), Spacing Modifier Letters (63), Combining Diacritical Marks (82), Greek (and Coptic) (110), Cyrillic (238), Cyrillic Supplement (16), Armenian (85), Hebrew (83), Thai (86), Cherokee (85), Ogham (29), Runic (81), Latin Extended Additional (246), Greek Extended (233), General Punctuation (69), Superscripts and Subscripts (28), Currency Symbols (16), Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (20), Letterlike Symbols (59), Number Forms (49), Arrows (100), Mathematical Operators (242), Miscellaneous Technical (57), Control Pictures (39), Enclosed Alphanumerics (73), Box Drawing (128), Block Elements (22), Geometric Shapes (88), Miscellaneous Symbols (108), Dingbats (2), CJK Symbols and Punctuation (9), Hiragana (90), Katakana (94), Private Use Area (148), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (42), Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (171), Specials (1).

See also

• List of typefaces
• Unicode fonts
• FontForge, a font creator software, developed by the author of this font.

This is a list of typefaces. ... Unicode fonts (also known as UCS fonts, Unicode Typefaces and Typefaces) contains wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, etc, which are collectively mapped into Universal Character Set, also known as, UCS (which is an international standard ISO/IEC 10646), derived from many different languages from all around the... FontForge is a typeface (font) editor program supporting several font formats like TrueType, PostScript, OpenType and SVG fonts. ...

External links

• Caslon Roman : George Williams' Font Homepage
• Altlinux : gw-fonts-ttf-1.0-alt5.src.rpm : CaslonRoman.ttf, Free Unicode TrueType fonts by George Williams, packaged by Vyacheslav Dikonov.
• a tarball of the fonts, license and the README, for the homepage link is unreachble.

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