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Century Gothic. Century Gothic is a digital sans-serif typeface in the geometric style, released by Monotype Imaging in 1990. [1][2] It is a redrawn version of Monotype's own Twentieth Century, a copy of Bauer's Futura, to match the widths of ITC Avant Garde Gothic. It is an exclusively digital typeface that has never been manufactured as metal ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Century Gothic [2] Sans Serif: ... Small Italic, Small Bold, Display Light, Display SemiLight, Display ...
Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text. The family originates from a first design, Century Roman, cut by American Type Founders designer Linn Boyd Benton in 1894 for master printer Theodore Low De Vinne, for use in The Century Magazine. [1] ATF rapidly expanded it into a very large family, first by Linn Boyd ...
Century Schoolbook Bold (1923) Globe Gothic (c. 1900), a refinement of Taylor Gothic, designed by ATF vice-president Joseph W. Phinney in 1897 for Charles H. Taylor for the exclusive use of the Boston Globe. [1] Globe Gothic Condensed + Extra Condensed + Extended (c. 1900) Globe Gothic Bold (1907), credited to Benton, though Frederic Goudy ...
ATF Designs. These foundry types were designed and produced by American Type Founders: Abbott Oldstyle (1901, Phinney) Adonic (1930, Willard T. Sniffin) Adscript (1914, Benton) Ad Lib (1961, Freeman Craw) Agency Gothic (1933, Benton), later digitized as Agency FB by Font Bureau. Agency Gothic Open (1934, Benton)
Samples of sans-serif typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Agency FB Designer: Caleigh Huber & Morris Fuller Benton Class: Geometric Akzidenz-Grotesk Designer: Günter Gerhard Lange
Before the term "sans-serif" became standard in English typography, a number of other terms had been used. One of these terms for sans-serif was "grotesque", often used in Europe, and "gothic", which is still used in East Asian typography and sometimes seen in typeface names like News Gothic, Highway Gothic, Franklin Gothic or Trade Gothic.
Sol Hess. Sol Hess (born 1886, Philadelphia, PA – d. 1953) was an American typeface designer. After a three-year scholarship course at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Design, he began at Lanston Monotype in 1902, rising to typographic manager in 1922. He was a close friend and collaborator with Monotype art director Frederic Goudy ...