Job French Clarendon is an homage to the mesmerizing bracketed horizontal
stress slab serifs from the heyday of letterpress printing in the 1800s. While we
worked on Job Clarendon, Bethany Heck also investigated the “French” Clarendons
from the same time period, and would send me messages from time to time with
particularly tasty exemplars that she would find in her extensive research into
nineteeth-century wood types. She convinced me to explore a horizontal-stress
slab that could serve as a kind of B-side for Job Clarendon.