font_designer: Morris Benton

Bodoni

Bodoni font

Morris Fuller Benton started the Bodoni revival with this version for ATF in the early years of the 20th century. We consider it the first accurate revival of a historical face for general use....

DeLuxe Gothic

DeLuxe Gothic font

Bank Gothic being a longtime font favorite of his, Michael Doret was always disappointed that Morris Fuller Benton’s classic didn’t contain any lowercase characters. So he set out to remedy that by designing his...

Odalisque Stencil NF

Odalisque Stencil NF font

Here’s a stencil version of another Nick’s Fonts typeface based on Chic, a Morris Fuller Benton creation for American Type Founders from the 1920s. Stylish and sophisticated as always, and now with an arts-and-crafts...

Highpoint Gothic NF

Highpoint Gothic NF font

Morris Fuller Benton’s 1935 offering from ATF, entitled Raleigh Gothic Condensed, inspired this ultracompact masterpiece. Benton’s alternate characters are included in several lowercase positions, to add a little Art Deco sparkle to this versatile…

Uncle Sam Slim NF

Uncle Sam Slim NF font

Based on Morris Fuller Benton’s 1905 oeuvre American Extra Condensed, this titling face packs a lot of information into very little horizontal space. Its champfered corners give the font an industrial feel which remains...

Franklin Gothic Pro

Franklin Gothic Pro font

The original Franklin Gothic was designed in 1903 by Morris Fuller Benton. Franklin Gothic is named after Benjamin Franklin, America’s greatest printer. Our Franklin Gothic Black Condensed is unique because it is designed to...

Telenovela NF

Telenovela NF font

Here’s a retooling of the Art Deco classic Novel Gothic, designed by Morris Fuller Benton and Charles H. Becker for American Type Founders in 1929. We’ve added a little sparkle to this classic with...

Kenotaph NF

Kenotaph NF font

This willowy wonder is based on Morris Fuller Benton’s Stymie Obelisk, one in a series of typefaces he designed for American Type Founders in the 1930s. An obvious choice when real estate is at...

Cheltenham Pro

Cheltenham Pro font

Where most typefaces are designed by just one individual, quite a few people have been involved in perfecting Cheltenham over the times. In 1896, the architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue created the initial design for...

Cleargothic Pro

Cleargothic Pro font

All SoftMaker webfonts come with at least 500,000 pageviews included. Morris Fuller Benton designed the serifed Clearface typeface for ATF in 1907. He liked the design so much that he also created a flare-serif...