font_designer: Morris Benton

Wedding Text

Wedding Text font

Morris Fuller Benton’s version of the standard American nineteenth century blackletter made for ATF in 1901.

Piranesi

Piranesi font

An informal script designed for ATF as an italic for his Piranesi by W.T. Sniffin.

Empire

Empire font

Commercial Script

Commercial Script font

A bold weight of a moderately flourished script designed for ATF by Morris Fuller Benton in 1908, and an industry standard since then.

Cloister Black

Cloister Black font

Cheltenham

Cheltenham font

Daniel Berkeley Updike seems to have stimulated the architect Bertram G. Goodhue to design the prototype in 1896 for Ingalls Kimball at the Cheltenham Press. Six years later Morris Fuller Benton at ATF developed...

Bank Stencil

Bank Stencil font

Broadway

Broadway font

In 1928, the application of pure geometric form to sanserifs and slabserifs was in full swing. Morris Fuller Benton applied geometry to the Modern letterform to arrive at Parisian and Broadway for ATF.

LTC Globe Gothic

LTC Globe Gothic font

This series of faces was designed initially by Morris Fuller Benton, circa 1900. The design is a refinement of Taylor Gothic from 1897. It features a sans serif thick and thin design with angular...

Neubank NF

Neubank NF font

The Neubank family builds on the firm foundation of Bank Gothic, a twentieth-century classic designed by Morris Fuller Benton for ATF, and adds a fluid, dynamic lowercase that makes it right at home in...