A note on the type.

Over the past few months I have received numerous inquiries about the font used in my blog. Sorry for the delay, but here is the information many of you have requested.

This blog was set in a digitized version of Didcot for linotype by Nigel Trimblebottom (1880-1956). It belongs to the family of printing types called “modern face” by printers – a term used to mark the change in style of type letters that occurred about 1800. Didcot borders on the general design of Scotch Roman, but is more freely drawn than that letter.

Farmer Simon