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A sample of News Gothic. A sample of Bank Gothic. A sample of Franklin Gothic.. All of Benton's typefaces were cut by American Type Founders.. Roycroft (c. 1898), inspired by lettering in the Saturday Evening Post and often credited to Lewis Buddy, though (according to ATF) designed “partly” by Benton.
Lydian is a calligraphic humanist sans-serif [1] typeface designed by Warren Chappell for American Type Founders in 1938. It is available in bold, italic, and condensed, [2] as well as in a Cursive variant. [3] The original foundry font was commissioned and cast by American Type Founders and included a stylistic alternate, a capital ‹A ...
American Type Founders was the largest producer of foundry type in the world, not only of in-house designs, but also from designs that came from merged firms. Many of its designs were created or adapted by Morris Fuller Benton, his father Linn, Joseph W. Phinney or Frederic Goudy.
[28] [29] [30] Freeman Craw drew the Craw Clarendon family, a once popular American version released by American Type Founders in 1955, with light, bold and condensed variants. [31] [32] The italic of Egizio, intended to complement the pre-existing Clarendon design concept. Aldo Novarese drew the Egizio family for Nebiolo, in Turin, Italy.
American Type Founders (ATF) Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85 percent of all type manufactured in the United States at the time. [1] The new company, consisting of a consolidation of firms from throughout the United States, was incorporated in New Jersey .
American Typewriter is a slab serif typeface created in 1974 by Joel Kaden and Tony Stan for International Typeface Corporation. [4] It is based on the slab serif style of typewriters; however, unlike most true typewriter typefaces, it is a proportional design: the characters do not all have the same width.
Franklin Gothic and its related faces are a large family of sans-serif typefaces in the industrial or grotesque style developed in the early years of the 20th century by the type foundry American Type Founders (ATF) and credited to its head designer Morris Fuller Benton. [1] "Gothic" was a contemporary term (now little-used except to describe ...
The font has also been used on the cornerstone of the One World Trade Center in New York. It is also the current font used in MPA title cards for film trailers in the U.S. Developed for professional use, Gotham is an extremely large family, featuring four widths, eight weights, and separate designs for screen display and a rounded version.