![]() O Cheltenham Medium Italic + Cheltenham Extra Bold (1910) O Cheltenham Oldstyle Condensed + Cheltenham Medium (1909) O Cheltenham Inline + Cheltenham Inline Extra Condensed' O Cheltenham Bold Extra Condensed + Cheltenham Bold Extended (1906) O Cheltenham Bold Italic + Cheltenham Bold Condensed Italic + Cheltenham Wide + Cheltenham Bold Outline (1905) Cheltenham series, based on the original Cheltenham designed by Bertram Goodhue.O Franklin Gothic Condensed Shaded (1912) O Franklin Gothic Condensed + Extra Condensed (1906) Franklin Gothic series, the patriarch of American sans-serif faces, named for Benjamin Franklin, America’s greatest printer.Engravers Bold (1902, also cast by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler).Typo Script + extended (1902), originally ‘‘Tiffany Script’’.Card Mercantile (1901), a redesign of the two smallest sizes of an 1890’s Dickinson Type Foundry design that ATF had acquired when the companies merged in 1896.O Globe Gothic Bold (1907), credited to Benton, though Frederic Goudy claims Phinney commissioned him to do it. O Globe Gothic Condensed + Extra Condensed + Extended (c. Taylor for the exclusive use of the Boston Globe. 1900), a refinement of Taylor Gothic, designed by ATF vice-president Joseph W. + Century Schoolbook (1918), commissioned by textbook publishers Ginn & Company for maximum legibility. + Century Oldstyle + italic + bold (1909) Century series, based on the original Century Roman cut by Linn Boyd Benton.1898), inspired by lettering in the Saturday Evening Post and often credited to Lewis Buddy, though (according to ATF) designed “partly” by Benton. ContentsĪll of Benton's typefaces were cut by American Type Founders. ![]() ![]() These typefaces better anticipated and were more similar to later realist sans-serif typefaces such as Helvetica than the other early grotesque types of his contemporaries. ![]() Benton's large family of related neogrotesque sans-serif typefaces, known as "gothics" as was the norm at the time, includes Alternate Gothic, Franklin Gothic, and News Gothic. Benton was America's most prolific type designer, having completed 221 typefaces, ranging from revivals of historical models like ATF Bodoni, to adding new weights to existing faces such as Goudy Old Style and Cheltenham, and to designing original designs such as Hobo, Bank Gothic, and Broadway. Morris Fuller Benton (Novem– June 30, 1948) was an influential 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. ![]()
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