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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 ...
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Franklin Gothic. Franklin Gothic and its related faces are a large family of sans-serif typefaces in the industrial or grotesque style developed in the early years of the 20th century by the type foundry American Type Founders (ATF) and credited to its head designer Morris Fuller Benton. [1] ". Gothic" was a contemporary term (now little-used ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Examples of grotesque typefaces include Akzidenz-Grotesk, Venus, News Gothic, Franklin Gothic, IBM Plex and Monotype Grotesque. Akzidenz Grotesk Old Face, Knockout, Grotesque No. 9 and Monotype Grotesque are examples of digital fonts that retain more of the eccentricities of some of the early sans-serif types.