[4][5][6] They also show influence of the crisp new "modern" faces, now called Didones, increasingly popular on the continent.

[9] Although Bulmer wrote in his preface to his edition of Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell that Martin would in future be able to offer a specimen of his typefaces, he is not known to have ever issued one.

In this period, D. B. Updike described Martin's types as "delicate and spirited"[1] and Stanley Morison described it as "a variation on the Baskerville theme".

Lowercase b's lower left corner is essentially symmetric to d. Uppercase italic characters J, K, N, T and Y have flourishes reminiscent of Baskerville's.

The resulting face could show off the high quality of printing technology of the time: James Mosley has described Bulmer's editions: "The type was, however, only one ingredient in the ensemble which Bulmer managed to striking success...the good ink, the consistently good presswork and the superb Whatman paper are combined in one of the few really successful English attempts at printing in the grand manner.