slightly irregular shapes (a la type produced by colonial printers), and a decent complement of ligatures. And what about free or cheap faces like this?
I don’t know if any exist with all of 1-5. As I believe you get what you pay for, especially in fonts, I haven’t looked at free and cheap-copy fonts. Microsoft’s expansion set for their Win3.1 optional fonts has Garamond Expert & Expert Extensions, which has a good complement of ligatures and I think I remember it having the long ess too. I forget about OSFigs; it should tho’. Monotype’s metal faces “16th Century Roman” and “Poliphilus” may be available in digital; if so, they imitate early presswork with early and are very close to what one wants. “A commercial supplier [not yet sampled] is Image Club Graphics in Calgary (1-800-661-9410). It is called Caslon Antique. It is supplied as both roman and italic, together, for $25. They advertise in MacWorld/MacUser/MacBlah. I am unable to tell from abcDEF123 if the numerals are old-style, but I think not. Ligatures? long-S? Not yet known. Guillemots, though, are there. … Letraset, circa 1977, showing a Caslon Antique with modern num
