I think it is an elegant letter font…but nobody I know seems to use it! I use it a lot…but people claim that it is hard to read…does anybody know the history of this style, and who developed it? 
If it’s not one of the default fonts provided by Windows or MS Word, probably most people don’t have access to it.
Ralph
I use it a lot !!!
Go to my website
www.1728.com
It’s used on each of my index pages too (and there’s lots of those).
http://www.1728.com/indexcon.htm
http://www.1728.com/indexuc.htm
http://www.1728.com/indexfin.htm etc
It struck me funny when I learned the name of that font. I always thought that font woluld have a name like “computer style” or “sci-fi”, etc. For a font named Westminster, you would think it was something like Old Enlish calligraphy.
For the record, I have used this font a few times for things like clock displays. But I can’t see using it for regular body text. It’s just too mechanical.
wolf_meister, umm, if we don’t have the font, we aren’t going to see it displayed on your web site, any more than we’d see it in a Word document that you emailed to us as a file attachment. Our computers substitute some other font in lieu of having the one your html (or word) document is calling for.
If you want all your visitors to see the font in its original face, you’ll have to convert the words to an image and embed the image on your web page.
AHunter
Yes I understand that. The reasons I rarely use images to display text is that 1) images take up more webhost storage space, bandwidth, etc and 2) I like a fast-loading site. So, if people see it as Arial instead of Westminster then so be it.
If no one else, I thought I would show Ralph that some people do use that font. (I’m assuming that at least he would have that font).
Daver914 It’s an attention-getting font. It’s vaguely analagous to using a red pen. Use it all the time and it loses its effect. Also, I only use it in the headings of my index pages. And I agree Daver. Trying to read entire blocks of text in Westminster font would be a royal pain. (Hmmm consider “Moby Dick” printed entirely in Westminster font). LOL
A sample of it can be found here.
I haven’t thought about this font for a long time, but once I saw it I recognized it immediately. Have no idea about its history, though.
Of course, I google around and find this site:
And I quote:
Westminster
In the mid-1960s after banks began printing machine-readable account numbers on checks, a British font designer made an entire typeface along the same lines. No one took this typeface seriously, however, until Photoscript produced it, naming the typeface after the bank that helped Photoscript fund the font’s production. Westminster was an instant hit, and the very font makers who had previously rejected the idea rushed out to commission alternative designs.
This is the first of those designs, and it’s the best. Although you’re welcome to use only the numbers (perhaps you run a bank), the rest of the face can provide a number of interesting uses at both large and small sizes.
Hey, it’s Strong Bad’s old computer!
To me, that font’s always had connotations of the future, but it’s a cheesy future. Walt Disney “Mother prepares coffee in the Insta-Brewer while Father takes the 6:30 HoverTrain to the moon!” cheesy.
Oh, that font!
I have a ripoff of it called “Future”.
I got this computer second hand. For some reason there are about 80 different fonts in it. I like the Westminster.
Can you see this? [VivaldiD] Or this one? [Kids]
Not to mention all kinds of web, or wingdings and a b c d e [Mini Pics Head Buddies]
Why would anyone need all that stuff?