font_designer: Morris Benton
Alternate Gothic EF
In 1903, the typeface family Alternate Gothic was developed for ATF (American Type Foundry) by Morris Fuller Benton. It was Benton’s intent to solve many diverse layout problems with the development of a narrow...
SchoolBook
The typeface was designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1949-61 (project manager Elena Tsaregorodtseva). Based on Shkolnaya (‘School’) typeface, 1939 (project manager Evgeny Chernevsky), a version of Century Schoolbook of American Type…
Odette
The Morris Benton 1918 American classic, Announcement Roman, comes to digital life with more pizzazz than it ever had. Named after the Swan Lake princess, Odette is the ideal choice for titling, poetry, advertising,...
Stymie
Morris Fuller Benton’s 1931 design, reworking the model of Memphis for ATF.