font_foundry: Bitstream

Stencil

Stencil font

Gerry Powell’s stencil version of Clarendon designed for ATF in 1938.

Serifa

Serifa font

Developed by Adrian Frutiger for Bauer in 1966, Serifa is a slabserif based on the principles that led to the success of Frutiger’s 1956 sanserif, Univers. Glypha, designed by Frutiger for Stempel in 1979,...

Raleigh

Raleigh font

Following the death of Carl Dair, David Anderson redrew Dair’s design, Cartier, for Typsettra, where it was renamed Raleigh. Adrian Williams at Fonts added three weights as a display series for Conways, while Robert...

Park Avenue

Park Avenue font

The first of the popular American informal scripts designed by R.E. Smith for ATF in 1933.

Parisian

Parisian 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.

Orator

Orator font

OCR-A

OCR-A font

A set of capitals adequate for machine reading only; this barely legible pioneer sees declining use.

News Gothic

News Gothic font

The standard American sanserif of the first two thirds of the twentieth century, prepared for ATF by Morris Fuller Benton in 1908 under the name News Gothic, with a matching lightface known as Lightline...

Life

Life font

Designed by Francesco Simoncini and W. Bilz, this design follows Times New Roman in structure, but differs in some details. Unlike Times New Roman, the boldface is a weighted version of the roman.

Kaufmann

Kaufmann font

The most popular type of this kind, designed for ATF by M.R. Kaufmann in 1936.