Type West Online, Term 1, Spring 22
Fox & Beeler Cloister
David Sargent
Fox & Beeler Cloister is my revival of “Cloister”, a single-weight, low contrast Latin typeface distributed by Reed & Fox in London from 1874 to 1899. The original uppercase and numerals were designed for display use and were drawn by Charles H. Beeler Jr. for MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan in Philadelphia, 1873. The designer of the unauthorised lowercase is unknown but is likely to be Benjamin Fox.
As part of the revival process, diacritics and other special characters for additional language support were added. This expansion of the character set allows the typeface to be applied to more languages than the original designers could have ever imagined.
David Sargent
David is Creative Director of Liveworm, a design studio incubator within the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. As a designer, artist, and researcher, David is interested in how creative design practice can engage, communicate, and spark social change.
