A serif typeface designed for newspaper and periodical
production. (Not to be confused with Stephenson Blake’s typeface of the same name.)
The Independent’s
obituary for Walter Tracy describes it as:
[…] a face required to replace the famous Times Roman, whose
matrices (the moulds from which type is cast) were found
continually to need renewal, their side-walls being unusually thin
and vulnerable. Jubilee was introduced in 1953, and used by a fair
number of newspapers – but not by the Times.
The
Linotype Matrix #20 promotes the typeface’s debut
in The Glasgow Herald and its companion papers,
The Bulletin and Evening Times, on Sept
20, 1954.
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A serif typeface designed for newspaper and periodical production. (Not to be confused with Stephenson Blake’s typeface of the same name.) The Independent’s obituary for Walter Tracy describes it as:
[…] a face required to replace the famous Times Roman, whose matrices (the moulds from which type is cast) were found continually to need renewal, their side-walls being unusually thin and vulnerable. Jubilee was introduced in 1953, and used by a fair number of newspapers – but not by the Times.
The Linotype Matrix #20 promotes the typeface’s debut in The Glasgow Herald and its companion papers, The Bulletin and Evening Times, on Sept 20, 1954.
A digital adaptation was made by Nick Sherman at HEX Projects, available by request.
