— | ( ) | ? | ! | ; | j | e | ' | ' | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Œ Æ | œ æ | fl | ffi | ffl | [ ] $ | — | ||||
fi | b | c | d | i | s | f | g | 7 | 8 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | |||||||||
ff | 9 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
H | I | K | L | M | N | O | |||||||||||||||||||
k | l | m | n | h | o | y | p | , | w | ens | mid | ||||||||||||||
thin | P | Q | R | S | T | V | W | ||||||||||||||||||
z | v | u | t | thicks | a | r | q | : | em quads | ||||||||||||||||
X | Y | Z | & | £ | U | J | |||||||||||||||||||
x | - | . | |||||||||||||||||||||||
This English layout is held by the Print Workshop of St. Bride Foundation in London in 2015, although it relates to the U.S. style of case, with a divided box above the i box, and five rows in the upper case section. As with Stephenson Blake and London School of Printing and Aspinall the numerals are in the centre bay, unlike Heffer and Lindley & Maggs where they are in the right hand bay. As with many layouts, there are numerous small differences, for example compared with the London |School of Printing lay, thin spaces replace hair spaces, mid spaces are moved to where em quads usually go, and the old mid/thin box is now used for quotation marks. The q remains in the traditional position above . rather than be moved closer to u and as the — remains in its more traditional position, the fl ligature has had to be in the top right hand row. Both London and St Bride have £ and & in the right hand bottom row, where Æ and Œ used to go (e.g. Caslon of 1897).
The empty typecase configuration is that of the California Job Case.
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