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Cheltenham is a typeface for display use designed in 1896 by architect Bertram Goodhue and Ingalls Kimball, director of the Cheltenham Press.The original drawings were known as Boston Old Style and were made about 14" high.
Tower (1934), similar to Stymie Medium Condensed. Eagle Bold (1934), a variant of Novel Gothic, designed for the NRA, used on their Blue Eagle posters. [13] Poster Gothic (1934), essentially larger sizes (24 pt. +) of Bank Gothic Condensed Medium. Benton (1934), designed as Cambridge, released as Benton, reïntroduced in 1953 as Whitehall.
The misc-fixed fonts have been much less commonly used since support for scalable outline font formats such as Type 1, TrueType and OpenType has become available for X. However, they are still commonly used with terminal emulators , such as xterm , and as a fallback font for the many Unicode characters not yet found in common outline fonts.
The New Johnston Medium as the new standard is slightly heavier or bolder than the original Johnston Regular (or sometimes confusingly called Medium) and lighter than the original Bold, and has a larger x-height, made suitable for main text setting as well as large display sizes. The average x-height of the New Johnston is roughly 7% larger ...
Title page for Tschichold's Typographische Gestaltung using City Medium, for the Benno Schwabe & Co. publishing house, 1932.. City is a slab serif typeface designed by Georg Trump and released around 1930 by the Berthold type foundry in Berlin, Germany.
A very large font family, Twentieth Century is particularly known for a limited range of styles being bundled with many Microsoft products such as Office. [1] Numerous other variants exist, including versions for very small text and an Art Deco -influenced titling capitals design, Twentieth Century Poster, with rounded capitals.
Two forms of the typeface exist; Transport Medium and Transport Heavy. Both have the same basic form, but Transport Heavy is boldface, to allow easier readability of black letters on white backgrounds, such as those used on non-primary roads, while Transport Medium is lighter, and is used for white letters on dark backgrounds, such as the green primary-route signs.
The font is inspired by ancient incised Greek and Roman letter carvings, [1] with geometric shapes used for the main construction. For example, its stylized Q is based on qoppa, an ancient form of Q. The O with a cross is an early form of theta. It is an all-capital font, but with different capital glyphs for both lowercase and capital letters.