Times Office Upper Case

â ä

ê ë

î ï

ô ö

û ü

1
4

1
2

3
4

1
8

3
8

5
8

7
8

This English layout is given by Southward: Practical Printing (1st ed. 1882 and 3rd ed. 1887, but thereafter omitted) as that used by The Times newspaper. Unlike Southward's Old lay, it reverses the position of caps and small caps, but it continues the old practice, e.g. Smith in 1755 and indeed still the O.U.P. lay in 1934, of keeping caps and small caps at the top, rather than bottom, of the case. However, Southward notes that the Times kept their reference signs in a separate fount case, which was thus available to all the compositors when necessary, and also that k was now removed to the Lower case. The equivalent lower is the Times Lower lay, which has the ligatures.

The boxes with A, etc are small caps.

The empty case configuration is the normal Upper of Moxon (1683), Luckombe (1771), Johnson (1824), Southward (1882), Mackellar (1885), Barnhart Bros & Spindler's News (1890s), Miller & Richard (1897), Stephenson Blake & Co (1922), Caslon (1925) etc.

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This page was written in 1997 by David Bolton and last updated 25 April 2015.