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Sans-serif lettering and typefaces were popular due to their clarity and legibility at distance in advertising and display use, when printed very large or small. Because sans-serif type was often used for headings and commercial printing, many early sans-serif designs did not feature lower-case letters.
Samples of sans-serif typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Agency FB Designer: Caleigh Huber & Morris Fuller Benton Class: Geometric : Akzidenz-Grotesk Designer: Günter Gerhard Lange Class: Grotesque : Amplitude Designer: Christian Schwartz Class: Humanist : Andalé Sans Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Humanist : Antique Olive ...
New Swiss road signs near Lugano use the typeface ASTRA-Frutiger.. Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger.It is the text version of Frutiger's earlier typeface Roissy, commissioned in 1970/71 [6] by the newly built Charles de Gaulle Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system, which itself was based on Concorde, a font Frutiger ...
Johnston (or Johnston Sans) is a sans-serif typeface designed by and named after Edward Johnston. The typeface was commissioned in 1913 by Frank Pick , commercial manager of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (also known as 'The Underground Group'), as part of his plan to strengthen the company's corporate identity . [ 1 ]
Univers (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a sans-serif typeface family designed by Adrian Frutiger and released by his employer Deberny & Peignot in 1957. [1] Classified as a neo-grotesque sans-serif, one based on the model of nineteenth-century German typefaces such as Akzidenz-Grotesk, it was notable for its availability from the moment of its launch in a comprehensive range of weights and widths.
Open Sans is an open source humanist sans-serif typeface that was designed by Steve Matteson under commission from Google. It was released in 2011 and is based on his earlier design called Droid Sans , which was specifically created for Android mobile devices but with slight modifications to its width.
Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards.. Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground.
A road sign written mainly in Transport Heavy; the white on blue text is Transport Medium. Transport is a sans serif typeface first designed for road signs in the United Kingdom. It was created between 1957 and 1963 by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert as part of their work as designers for the Department of Transport's Anderson and Worboys ...