The Caslon typeface.Originated by William Caslon I (d. 1766) of London, who established the H. W. Caslon & Sons type foundry and played a large part in developing the British type making industry which up to that time was effectively imported from Holland.Identified as the typeface used to disseminate the U.S. Declaration of Independence on July 5, 1776 printed by John Dunlap at his print shop blocks from Independence Hall in Philadelphia as he was overseen by Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Livingston, and Sherman known as the Dunlap Broadside. (The calligraphic parchment version of the Declaration not being signed until August 2 of that year.)It had small variations in its day, but was revived around the 1900s and subsequent when various designers adapted it to modern printing (e.g. Adobe Caslon Pro).It has both aficionados and detractors (as any good font should I suppose) but the descriptions I most liked were “comfortable and inviting” and a “happy archaism”.