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Miller
Miller, designed by Matthew Carter, is a “Scotch Roman,” a class of sturdy, general purpose types of Scottish origin, widely used in the US in the last century, but neglected since & overdue for...
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Stainless
In his sketchbook, Cyrus Highsmith experimented, developing a sanserif version of his slabserif Dispatch. As he drew strokes and counters, he realized that he had an original family with its own strong...
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Whitman
Drawing inspiration from W.A. Dwiggins and Eric Gill, book designer Kent Lew has treated classical design traits with a spartan finish to create award-winning Whitman, honored in 2002 by TDC....
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Fritz
Inspired by a characteristic handlettered ad from 1909, as well as the single word “Robusto” drawn for Oz Cooper’s own amusement and a perusal of his better-known work, Christian Schwartz designed...
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Moderno FB
In 1995, David Berlow cut FB Moderno for Esquire Gentleman and Reforma from a TrueType pole of Giza. In 1996 he cut new styles with Richard Lipton for El Norte. In 1997 Roger Black ordered new weights...
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Benton Sans
In 1903 faced with the welter of sans offered by ATF, Morris Fuller Benton designed News Gothic, a 20th century standard. In 1995 Tobias Frere-Jones studied drawings in the Smithsonian and started a...
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Benton Modern
Benton Modern was originally undertaken by Tobias Frere-Jones to improve text at The Boston Globe. Widening the text face for the Detroit Free Press, he returned Century’s proportions to Morris Fuller...
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Cosmos®
Designed by Gustav Jaeger in 1982, Cosmos is an interesting sans serif with terminals that seem to fade rather than come to a distinct end. This characteristic, however, does not distract the reader....
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Mesa
Cyrus Highsmith created Dispatch in his search for an industrial grade slab-serif to serve as text and display. A taut amalgam of letterforms found in typescript, on engineering blueprints and on...
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Hermes FB
Schriftguss and Wollmer called it Hermes; Berthold called it Block. Heinz Hoffmann’s 1908 design inspired FB Hermes, which evokes the German grotesks that were workhorses of factory printing 100 years...
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