Poynter Old Style Font Family was designed by David Berlow, Tobias Frere-Jones and published by Font Bureau. Poynter Old Style contains 15 styles and family package options. In the 1670s, Christopher Plantin was the largest publisher of his day. Hendrik van den Keere cut for him an astounding series of romans. As Stanley Morison once observed, such types adopted features of Flemish blackletter to strengthen elegant French romans. Large on the body, strong in color, economical in fit, widely (if anonymously) distributed, they established effective standards for all that followed; FB 1997–2000
