Commercial · Serif · Adobe
Adobe Caslon
Adobe Caslon is a licensed font from Adobe: Complete family of 6 fonts: $169.00 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Adobe Caslon is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Carol Twombly, William Caslon
- Released
- 1990
- Styles
- 6
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 6 fonts: $169.00 USD (Individual Styles from $35.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Carol Twombly's 1990 Caslon for Adobe, after the types William Caslon cut from 1720; six styles in this MyFonts family.
Free alternatives to Adobe Caslon
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Adobe Caslon is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Caslon Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Caslon Text.
derived
An open Caslon revival made for web body text; keeps Caslon's forms with a larger x-height for the screen.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Caslon Display webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Caslon Display.
derived
The display companion to Libre Caslon Text, optimised for headlines; close to the larger Caslon sizes.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The EB Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not EB Garamond.
same classification
An old-style revival of the previous century's model; similar text colour, with a more Renaissance axis than Caslon.
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