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Serif typeface

Cloister is a serif typeface that was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and published by American Type Founders from around ^[1][2] It is loosely based on the printing of Nicolas Jenson in Venice in the s, in what is now called the "old style" of serif fonts.^[3] American Type Founders presented it as an attractive but highly usable serif typeface, suitable both for body text and display use.^[4]

Metal type release

To ensure its versatility, Cloister was released in a wide selection of sizes and weights.

This included an italic (ATF's design, as italics did not exist in Jenson's time) with swash capitals, an inline style and Cloister Initials, a set of initial capitals by Frederic Goudy to match.^[5] The practice of creating a wide range of variants of a successful face was a standard ATF practice in order to capitalise on a successful typeface's popularity and allow coherent layout and graphic