This updating of Berthold’s Ideal Grotesque was supervised at Monotype in 1926 by F.H. Pierpont. With some of the eccentricities in the borrowed original reduced, this series retains enough character to have become one...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified March 18, 2021
The English scholar of typography, Stanley Morison, wrote of Monotype Corporation’s Goudy Modern: “It is strikingly handsome in mass (and) reads easily, in spite of the fact that it is, on the whole, a...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 1, 2024
Gill Sans is a humanistic sans serif family that, while is considered by many to be quintessentially British in tone and concept, has been used in virtually every country and in nearly every application...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified March 18, 2021
Gill Floriated is based on a single character which Eric Gill drew as a decorated initial for use on a specimen setting of his Perpetua type. Although Gill was at first reluctant to produce...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 1, 2024
Designed by Carl Reissberger for the Monotype Corporation in 1962, Forte is a bold display script that has no connections between the letters of the lowercase alphabet. Slightly inclined, it gives the impression of...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 1, 2024