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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
A modern sans-serif and four blackletter typefaces (left to right): Textur (a), Rotunda, Schwabacher and Fraktur. Fraktur (German: [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ⓘ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. It is designed such that the beginnings and ends of the individual strokes that ...
Century Gothic [2] Sans Serif: Proportional: Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic ... Core fonts for the Web; Unicode font; References External links. Revised (cross ...
Bank Gothic is a rectilinear geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders and released in 1930. [1] The design has become popular from the late twentieth century to suggest a science-fiction, military, corporate, or sports aesthetic. [2][3][4][5] Bank Gothic is an exploration of geometric forms, and ...
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)