Besley
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Free Clarendon alternatives
Robert Besley patented it at the Fann Street Foundry in 1845, as the face to set in when the surrounding text needed emphasis.
What a Clarendon substitute has to get right
Bracketed slabs — the serif has to meet the stem on a curve rather than at a corner — and ball terminals. A square-cut Egyptian slab is a different nineteenth-century idea.
The one in this archive
One entry, because one is the honest answer. A face is listed here only if the substitution would survive a designer looking at both.