Windsor (typeface)
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| Typeface | Windsor |
|---|---|
| Category | Display |
| Designer(s) | Eleisha Pechey |
| Foundry | Stephenson Blake |
Windsor is a typeface created in 1905 by Eleisha Pechey. Besides the basic font it is also available in two other styles, Light and Roman. Various foundries introduced minor variations so that today there are versions by Linotype, Elsner+Flake, URW+++, Mecanorma and Stephenson Blake.
[edit] Windsor in popular culture
- The "Whole Earth Catalog" used Windsor font.
- Almost all the title sequences and credits of Woody Allen's films use sparse, white Windsor over a black background.
- This style was used in Kevin Smith's "Clerks", and "Clerks - the animated series", however, the specific font was Courier
- Windsor Bold was the title/credits font on the TV Series "All in the Family".
