font_designer: Morris Benton

Piranesi

Piranesi font

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

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...

Odalisque NF

Odalisque NF font

Here’s a revised and updated version of one of my oldies, based on the typeface Chic, designed by Morris Fuller Benton. The addition of small caps, improved kerning, and an expanded character set make...

Warp Three NF

Warp Three NF font

This face is a bit of a time traveler. It combines the lowercase from a font called simply Square Gothic from the 1888 James Conner’s Sons specimen book with the uppercase of Morris Fuller...

LTC Cloister

LTC Cloister font

Designed by Morris Fuller Benton 1913-15, this Oldstyle family was digitized by Jim Rimmer in the early 2000’s. It is a roman face closely styled to that of Nicholas Jensen’s with a companion italic...