Caslon Egyptian

[2][3][4][5][a] Sans-serif lettering in block capitals had been developing in popularity over the past decades, initially due to interest in classical antiquity in which inscriptions often had minimal or no serifs, and come to be used by architect John Soane and copied by others, particularly in signpainting.

[13]) It is somewhat "classical" in style, being capitals-only, formal in design and not particularly bold (although still bolder than conventional body text fonts), appearing similar to Soane's lettering.

[15] Typeface names at this point had not emerged: types at the time generally were just listed by their size, or numbered.

Several digital revivals of Caslon's Egyptian have been made, for commercial use by Miko McGinty, Cyrus Highsmith and Christian Schwartz of Font Bureau (adding a lower case invented by Schwartz)[19] and for private use by Justin Howes and by James Mosley, both with a modified G.[14] Howes' revival is used for signage at Dulwich Picture Gallery, designed by Soane.

[22][23] To mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the first dated printing of a sans-serif typeface, a conference was held at Birmingham City University in September 2016.