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Jonathan Hoefler was born on August 22, 1970, [1] in New York City to Doreen Benjamin and Charles Hoefler, a theatrical set designer and producer. Growing up, it was the Gill Sans text on boxes of custard that drew him to typography design. [1]
The following is a list of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy.. Goudy was one of America's most prolific designers of metal type. He worked under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, and many of his designs are old-style serif designs inspired by the relatively organic structure of typefaces created between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, following the lead of earlier ...
Globe Gothic Bold (1907), credited to Benton, though Frederic Goudy claims Phinney commissioned him to do it. Globe Gothic Bold Italic (1908) Card Mercantile (1901), a redesign of the two smallest sizes of an 1890s Dickinson Type Foundry design that ATF had acquired when the companies merged in 1896. Wedding Text (1901) Wedding Text Shaded (1913)
Frederic William Goudy (/ ˈ ɡ aʊ d i / GOW-dee; [2] March 8, 1865 – May 11, 1947) was an American printer, artist and type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley. [3]
Morris Fuller Benton (November 30, 1872 – June 30, 1948) was an American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders (ATF), for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Gotham is a geometric sans-serif typeface family designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones with Jesse Ragan and released through the Hoefler & Frere-Jones foundry from 2002.
Design for a display case, by Thomas Chippendale, c.1753–1754, black ink and gray wash, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Chair from the Gothic Cabinet of the Osmond Countess, by François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter , c. 1817-1820, gilt wood, Petit Palais , Paris
Cultural tradition ensured that German typography and type design remained true to the gothic/blackletter spirit; but the parallel influence of the humanist and neo-classical typography in Italy (the first country outside of Germany with a printing press) catalyzed texture into four additional sub-styles that were distinct, structurally rich ...