To showcase my bespoke typeface, I decided to produce a type specimen poster. I kept this poster quite minimal due to the thinness of strokes, as I did not want them to get lost amongst anything else. The use of colour reflects the desired purpose of my typeface as being used in newspapers and other similar publications, which are typically greyscale and also quite minimal. Also in response to the potential purpose of Caslon Slimline, I transferred the same information from my poster into a newspaper layout to see how well it would work in terms of this purpose. Based on this, I feel that it works well for use in newspaper and publication headings.
However, due to the extreme thinness of certain strokes, when exported, the letterforms break up again in response to this process, but as a result, shows how this typeface is seen as a flimsy and fragile one.
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| Fig. 1. Type Specimen Poster - Caslon Slimline. |
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| Fig. 2. Type Specimen Poster - Newspaper Layout. |
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