[3] It was popular for newspaper headlines for many years, although by the mid-twentieth century it had declined in popularity: British newspaper designer Allen Hutt was moved to call it "an Edwardian shocker...few faces, the monstrosities apart, have more departures from normal letter design–strokes curved when they should be straight, blobs substituted for serifs...counters misshapen, horizontal strokes made diagonal.

Dominus was revived in 1997 by Steve Jackaman, and while lacking the original's italic, it includes not only the original "handtooled" version, but also "open", "engraved" and "solid" versions, the last functioning essentially as a higher-contrast display variant of Clearface Heavy.

The latest version of Clearface Gothic has five weights: light, roman, medium, bold, and black.

Digital copies of the Clearface Gothic family include five weights and are available from Adobe, Linotype, Monotype, and URW++.

A slightly altered version of the family, called Clear Gothic Serial, complete with italics, is available from Myfonts.com.