Windsor (typeface)
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| Category | Display |
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| Designer(s) | Eleisha Pechey |
| Foundry | Stephenson Blake |
Windsor is an old style serif display typeface created in 1905 by Elisha Pechey for the Stephenson Blake type foundry. Capitals M and W are widely splayed, P and R have very large upper bowls. The Lowercase a, h, m and n of the Windsor font have angled right hand stems, e has an angled cross-stroke. 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.
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[edit] Windsor in popular culture
Beginning with 1977's Annie Hall, almost all the title sequences and credits of Woody Allen's films use sparse, white Windsor Light Condensed over a black background.[1] The same font was used in the Ebury Press 2007 edition (ISBN 0091920213) of his 2007 book Mere Anarchy.[2]
Windsor Bold was used for the title and credits of the TV series All in the Family, 227, and Who's The Boss?.[citation needed]
The Whole Earth Catalog, published between 1968 and 1972, used Windsor font on its cover.[citation needed]
Max's Kansas City in New York City used lowercase Windsor Bold in its logo from 1965 to 1981.[citation needed] The 7th Street Entry at the First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota has also used lowercase Windsor Bold in its logo since 1981.[citation needed]
Windsor Bold is also the typeface used in the 1980s trading card series Garbage Pail Kids.[citation needed]
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- ^ Woody Allen's typography: Is this fetish or brand identity? from kitblog.com
- ^ Mere Anarchy (ISBN 0091920213) from WorldCat
