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Cloister
Cloister is a serif typeface that was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and published by American Type Founders around 1913.
About Cloister
Cloister is a serif typeface that was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and published by American Type Founders around 1913. It is loosely based on the printing of Nicolas Jenson in Venice in the 1470s, in what is now called the "old style" of serif fonts. American Type Founders presented it as an attractive but highly usable serif typeface, suitable both for body text and display use.
From the Wikipedia article “Cloister (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Cloister 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.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q25345843 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).