This was indeed produced, almost simultaneously in Philadelphia and in Edinburgh in two distinct designs, both under the name of Old Style Antique. Willem Ovink, a historian of type, writes in his history of the style in 1971 that:Ī bold Old Style was needed.
Although old-style antiques were bolder than the original old-style face, the difference was not great enough that they could not be used for body text. However, the oldstyle antique designs then became used for body text. "Antique" was a common name given to bolder typefaces of the time, now often called slab serifs, and identifies the aim of creating a complementary bolder design on the oldstyle model for uses such as emphasis. The direct ancestor of Bookmans were several fonts from around 1869 named "Old Style Antique" somewhat bolder than Miller & Richard's first old-styles. It became popular in the USA and one of a wide range of loose revivals and adaptations of the Caslon design, visible in the wide-spreading arms of the T and the sharp half-arrow serifs on many letters. Sometimes called a "modernised old style", it is a redesign of true old-style serif faces from the eighteenth century such as Caslon with a quite wide design and larger lower-case letters. The ancestor of Bookman Old Style is Miller & Richard's "Old Style" cut by Alexander Phemister.
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