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[4] One of the most notable sets of designs of the foundry was a "modernised old face" known as Old Style - an adaptation of the old-style serif fonts of the 1500-1800 period such as Caslon, but regularised to match the greater evenness and grace expected in fonts by the mid-nineteenth century.

[8][9] One of its punchcutters of the period was Alexander Phemister, who would later emigrate to the United States and cut "old style" designs there.

[10] The firm's work entered a decline with the arrival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century of hot metal typesetting, by which type was not sold to printers but cast by machine new for each job, under the control of a keyboard.

[4] Some of its old style and modern typefaces were imitated by Monotype, one of the major hot metal companies.

[4][13] According to James Mosley "matrices for a few types were acquired by Stephenson, Blake & Co. Ltd., Sheffield, but most of the materials appear to have been dispersed.