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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.
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.
Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.
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 .
A final member of the family, Bernhard Gothic Medium Condensed, was introduced by ATF in 1936, but it is unclear as to who the designer was. [1] Bernhard Gothic is more organic and less regular than other geometric sans-serif typefaces, including Futura, Kabel, and Twentieth Century, showing influence of Bernhard's earlier more expressionistic ...
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.
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).