It's a wonderful thing. I'm in awe at the craft and talent that goes into making something good like that. Having messed around in Fontlab for a few years now, all I've learned is, how hard it is to make something good. I think I'm becoming a professional appreciator. It's all I can aspire to.
The domineering gentleman-figure that towered over my early years was the late Clifford Truesdell. Made Pearce Williams look like a demure, unassuming maiden by comparison.
Speaking of extinct Caslons, I see that Gerald Giampa's digital revival of Lanston's Caslon Oldstyle 337 is apparently still available from P22. Somewhere on an old drive I must still have copies of the PS Type 1 fonts that I licensed from Gerald in the mid-90s. It was also too light and spindly, but I think Gerald mostly printed it letterpress from polymer plates, for which it was better suited.
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The domineering gentleman-figure that towered over my early years was the late Clifford Truesdell. Made Pearce Williams look like a demure, unassuming maiden by comparison.
https://www.fonthaus.com/fonts/vintagetype/Cuala_Caslon/VT10006
It's the "Irish Caslon," as it were.
Unfortunately, I think it was digitized from an under-inked source. I saw a sample that looks better, and would have made for a better source for reviving it.
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:2107#?c=&m=&s=&cv=1&xywh=-1270%2C3262%2C6174%2C2284