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Engravers Old English Bold (1910, Benton) Engravers Shaded (1906, Benton) Lithographic Shaded (1914, Benton + W. F. Capitian), a half-shaded version of Engravers Shaded. Engravers Text (1930, Benton) Flemish Black (1902, Phinney) Franklin Gothic series, the patriarch of American sans-serif faces, named for Benjamin Franklin, America’s ...
Engravers Shaded (1906) Norwood Roman (1906), made for J. S. Cushing’s Norwood Press. Engravers Old English (1906), based upon Caslon Text and designed in association with "Cowan" or perhaps Joseph W. Phinney. [3] Engravers Old English Bold (1910) Clearface series, designed with the help of his father, Linn Boyd Benton. Clearface (1907)
The Bauer Bodoni typeface, with samples of the three of the fonts in the family: Roman (or regular), bold, and italic.. In metal typesetting, a font (American English) or fount (Commonwealth English) is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design.
Monotype Modern, a nineteenth-century text face, next to Haas Clarendon Bold, a display face. Both fonts show classic nineteenth-century design features, for instance on the 'Q', 'R', 'r', 'a' and 'c'. However, the Clarendon is much wider with a higher x-height, and contrast between thick and thin strokes has been reduced.
Old Roman Bold + Bold Condensed + Semitone (1908) Engravers Old Black (1910, BB&S) a knock-off of ATF's Engravers Old English. Cardstyle (1914, BB&S later ATF) Capitals and small caps only. Engravers Roman Shaded (1914, BB&S later ATF) Chester Text (1914, BB&S later ATF) Capitals and small caps only. Pencraft Oldstyle series (BB&S later ATF)
Script typefaces have evolved rapidly in the second half of the 20th century due to developments in technology and the end of widespread use of metal type. Historically, most signwriting on logos, displays and shop frontages did not use fonts but was rather custom-designed lettering created by signpainters and engravers.
DIN 1451 is a sans-serif typeface that is widely used for traffic, administrative and technical applications. [1]It was defined by the German standards body DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung, 'German Institute for Standardisation', pronounced like the English word din) in the standard sheet DIN 1451-Schriften ('typefaces') in 1931. [2]
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.