Century FB
Designed by the young Morris Fuller Benton for ATF in 1906, Century Bold Condensed packs plenty of text into every line. It rapidly became one of the most popular headline typefaces for American newspapers...
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Caslon FB
Our familiar Caslon Bold headletters were invented around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States and were only loosely based on William Caslon’s romans. The best of the Caslon Bolds originated...
Californian FB
In 1938, Goudy designed California Oldstyle, his most distinguished type, for University of Calif. Press. In 1958, Lanston issued it as Californian. Carol Twombly digitized the roman 30 years later for California; David Berlow...
Cafeteria
The irregularities normally found in script can enliven sanserif letterforms. In Cafeteria, Tobias Frere-Jones took special care to balance activity with legibility on the paper napkin that served as his sketchpad, drawing a freeform...
Brok
Brok appeared in 1925 as powerful characters in a magnificent portrait poster cut in wood by Chris Lebeau for the Willem Brok Gallery in Hilversum, Holland. Brok works its figure-ground magic when negative leading...
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Years ago, by happenstance, designers Nancy Mazzei and Brian Kelly found an old decrepit typewriter in an abandoned lot with tall grass in Brooklyn. They kept it around their apartment for two years. Then...
Bradley Initials
Designed by Will Bradley as “Bradley Ultra Modern Initials,” these spectacular Art Deco capitals appear for the first time in the nineteen thirty-four ATF specimen. The original design was limited to the twenty-six capitals...