Johnson Proposed Upper Case

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This English layout is that shown by Johnson: Typographia (1824) as his proposed improvement on the old lays such as Luckombe or Johnson New Upper cases.

The boxes with A, etc are small caps. The box with ¦ is really a single dagger, and the box with ¦¦ a double dagger. The boxes «, «», » are really bottom, middle, top of a 3 piece brace. The box with -- is an em dash, and ---- 2em dash. The box with { is a 2em brace, { 3em { 4em brace.

The empty configuration is broadly that of Moxon, and Johnson (1824), Southward (1882), Mackellar (1885), Barnhart Bros & Spindler's News (1890s), Stephenson Blake & Co (1922), Caslon (1925) etc. However, Johnson has introduced subdivisions in the top three rows, and part of the bottom row - see Johnson Proposed Upper for the empty case.

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This page was written in 1997 by David Bolton and last updated 28 February 02.