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Bold Antique Condensed (1908/9 ?) Re-issued as Whittin Black and Whittin Black Condensed (1960) Cloister Black (1904), a blackletter design not connected to Benton's Cloister roman font. Usually credited to Joseph W. Phinney, but many authorities give full credit to 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.
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.
Narrower fonts are usually labeled compressed, condensed or narrow. In Frutiger's system, the second digit of condensed fonts is a 7. Wider fonts may be called wide, extended or expanded. Both can be further classified by prepending extra, ultra or the like. Compressing a font design to a condensed weight is a complex task, requiring the ...
Interstate is a digital Typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993–1999, and licensed by Frere-Jones Type.The typeface is based on the FHWA series of fonts, a series of signage alphabets drawn for the Federal Highway Administration by Dr. Theodore W. Forbes in 1949, assisted by J.E. Penton and E.E. Radek.
Minion is a very large family of fonts, including Greek, Armenian and Cyrillic alphabets, optical sizes, condensed styles and stylistic alternates such as swash capitals. [14] As a standard font in many of Adobe's programs, it is one of the most popular serif typefaces used in books.
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.
A decade after Microgramma, Novarese resolved this limitation with his design of Eurostile, which added lowercase letters, a bold condensed variant, and an ultra narrow design he called Eurostile Compact, for a total of seven fonts. Eurostile is a popular font, particularly suitable for headings and signs.