Imprint was produced for the magazine (on a non-exclusive basis) in 1912 by the Monotype Company as Series 101 for automatic composition on the Monotype caster. When delivered to the journal's printers on December 31, 1912, it was still incomplete—the accents had not yet been made—so the editors asked in the first issue: “Will readers kindly insert them for themselves, if they find their omission harsh? For ourselves, we rather like the fine careless flavour, which their omission gives, after we have recovered from the first shock inevitable to us typographical precisians”. Its design was carried out by the Monotype engineering team in
Salfords, Surrey, led by engineer
Frank Hinman Pierpont and draughtsman Fritz Stelzer.
James Mosley describes Imprint as "an intelligent updating of Caslon" and has credited the Monotype team for crafting a "re-draw [done] in a manner that suited modern machine printing while keeping as much as possible of the spirit of the original." Contemporary type designer
Kris Sowersby has praised it for its "subtle, gentle stress and its restrained detailing". Perhaps the most notable use since then has been for the entire setting of the Second Edition of the
Oxford English Dictionary (1989), 22,000 pages of precisely structured typography in 20 volumes. ==Digital versions==