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Cartier is a family of serif old style typefaces designed by Carl Dair in 1967, who was commissioned by the Governor General of Canada-in-Council to create a new and distinctively Canadian typeface. The first proof of Cartier (in Roman and Italic faces) was published as "the first Canadiantype for text composition" to mark the centenary of Canadian Confederation.^[1]

In a 1977 revival of Cartier was produced under the name Raleigh by Robert Norton.

This typeface was later redesigned by Canadian typographer Rod McDonald in a digital format. McDonald's Cartier family removed inconsistencies in the baseline weight, and streamlined the stroke angles to enforce a strong horizontal flow.^[2] His work was a form of homage to the validity of Dair's original design, which later was unfortunately plagued with weight, stroke, and grid issues because Dair insisted that Mergenthaler Linotype's drawing office not refine the face but instead relied only on his personal sketches.

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