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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.
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.
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 ...
A post-war guide (presumably c. 1958) explaining the names used by ATF for their many somewhat related 'gothic' types and highlighting their then-new News Gothic Bold. [3] Benton's autobiographical notes list the following designs as his contributions to the family: [4] News Gothic; News Gothic Condensed; News Gothic Extra Condensed
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).
A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. [1] Most typefaces include variations in size (e.g., 24 point), weight (e.g., light, bold), slope (e.g., italic), width (e.g., condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
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 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.