Designed by Herman Ihlenburg and patented for MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan in 1892. Comes with a number of alternates, incl. for ‘aesCFLT’. Named after George W. Childs [THP].

European copies as Freie Romanisch (Stempel), Reklame-Mediaeval (Woellmer, Orgelbranda), Amerikanskij Mediewl (Lehmann, with Cyrillic), and Sirius (AG für Schriftgießerei u. M.) [Reichardt 2011].

Digitizations include Richard Beatty’s Childs (1991), Peter Wiegel’s CAT Childs (2015), and Ingo Preuss’s Daring (2016).