Clarendon was cut by Benjamin Fox for the London Fann Street Foundry, and first released in 1845. It was the first typeface to receive copyright protection.
Clarendon’s close affinity with neo-classical Roman type, particularly the newspaper typeface Century, gives it clarity as a text face. Ball terminals add to its readability. In 1953, Hermann Eidenbenz designed a Clarendon font family for the Haas Type Foundry in Frankfurt am Main which is still in use today.


Typographical design using Clarendon by the New York designer Andrew Kueneman