Morris F. Benton’s Cloister series for ATF spans 11 styles: Cloister Oldstyle (1914, based on Nicolas Jenson’s roman from 1470 but slightly bolder), Cloister Italic (1914, based on an italic cast by Aldus Manutius in 1501), Cloister Bold and Bold Italic (1915), Cloister Title and Bold Title (1914–15, no lowercase and cast full on the body, with adjusted J, Q), Cloister Lightface (1924) and Italic (1925, w/ some alternate swash caps), Cloister Cursive (1922, like Cloister Italic, but with cursive caps that are different from the swash caps), Cloister Bold Condensed (1917), and Cloister Cursive Handtooled (Benton and Charles H. Becker, ATF, 1926, derived from Cloister Bold Italic). [McGrew 1993] See also Frederic W. Goudy’s Cloister Initials (ATF, 1918).

Intertype had a Cloister Bold Tooled (1920), which is similar to Cloister Open Face, originally known as Nicolas Jenson Open (Ludlow, 1928). Cloister Wide (Linotype, 1926) was designed to match the width of Cloister Bold for duplexing on the same matrices. [McGrew 1993]

Cloister Oldstyle No.2 (Theo Rehak, 1992) is a cut in 16-point size for private use, distinguished by ten redesigned characters with diamond-shaped dots for greater authenticity, and an added long ‘s’. [McGrew 1993]

LTC Cloister (Jim Rimmer, early 2000s) has three weights in roman and italic, with small caps for the lighter roman styles, and cursive/swash alts for the italics. Cloister URW (Phil Martin) has eight styles (5 roman weights, 1 condensed, 2 italics). Other digital versions as Cloister Old Style by Scangraphic and Elsner+Flake (2 weights in roman and italic).