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Franklin Gothic Condensed + Extra Condensed (1906, Benton) Franklin Gothic Italic (1910, Benton) Franklin Gothic Condensed Shaded (1912, Benton) Freehand (1917, Benton) Gallia (1927, Wadsworth A. Parker), some sources attribute this to Benton. Garamond series, based upon the designs of 16th-century type founder, Claude Garamond.
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.
Narrower fonts are usually labeled compressed, condensed or narrow. In Frutiger's system, the second digit of condensed fonts is a 7. Wider fonts may be called wide, extended or expanded. Both can be further classified by prepending extra, ultra or the like. Compressing a font design to a condensed weight is a complex task, requiring the ...
A digitisation of Eldorado by Font Bureau, on which Frere-Jones collaborated (shown is the Text optical size). Eldorado (1993–94) - revival of Dwiggins' Eldorado (1953), itself based on a 16th-century font by Jacques de Sanlecque the Elder.
The font has been used in the TV shows Rhoda, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and Miami Vice. [citation needed] Several variants were made: [1] Broadway (1928, Morris Fuller Benton, ATF), capitals only. Broadway Engraved (1928, Sol Hess, Monotype). Broadway (with lowercase) (1929, Hess, Monotype). Broadway Condensed (1929, Benton, ATF).
Venus Bold on an American metal type specimen sheet. Shown are the recut 'E' and 'F' with vertical rather than diagonal terminals on the horizontal strokes.
Compacta is a condensed sans-serif typeface designed by Fred Lambert for Letraset in 1963. [2] It is visually similar to the typefaces Impact and Haettenschweiler, though Compacta has a distinctively square shape in comparison.
MS Reference Sans Serif is a derivative of Verdana Ref with bold and italic fonts. This font family is included with Microsoft Encarta. Tahoma is similar to Verdana but with tighter letter spacing. The Windows Mobile core font Nina [14] is a more condensed version of Tahoma and Verdana. [15]