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Cartier

Cartier is a family of serif old style typefaces designed in 1967 by Carl Dair, who was commissioned by the Governor General of Canada-in-Council to create a new and distinctively Canadian typeface.

About Cartier

Cartier is a family of serif old style typefaces designed in 1967 by Carl Dair, who was commissioned by the Governor General of Canada-in-Council to create a new and distinctively Canadian typeface. The typeface was named for the explorer Jacques Cartier and dedicated to the Canadian people. The first proof of Cartier (in Roman and Italic faces) was published as "the first Canadian type for text composition" to mark the centenary of Canadian Confederation. The typeface was used to set the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In 1977 a revival of Cartier was produced under the name Raleigh by Robert Norton. This typeface was later redesigned by Canadian typographer Rod McDonald in a digital format as Cartier Book. McDonald's Cartier family removed inconsistencies in the baseline weight, and streamlined the stroke angles to enforce a strong horizontal flow.

From the Wikipedia article “Cartier (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Cartier in a book

Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.

Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.

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