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List of American Type Founders typefaces

Index List of American Type Founders typefaces

American Type Founders was the largest producer of foundry type in the world, not only of in-house designs, but also from designs that came from merged firms. [1]

75 relations: Aldus Manutius, American Type Founders, Amsterdam Type foundry, August Dietz, Bank Gothic, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Baskerville, Benjamin Franklin, Bertram Goodhue, Blue Eagle, Bodoni, Bookman (typeface), Broadway (typeface), Bulmer (typeface), Caslon, Caslon Antique, Century type family, Charles H. Taylor, Cheltenham (typeface), Chicago, Cincinnati, Civilité, Clarence P. Hornung, Clarendon (typeface), Claude Garamond, Clearface, Cloister (typeface), Cooper Black, Copperplate Gothic, Curtis Publishing Company, Della Robbia, Eagle (typeface), Ed Benguiat, Edmund Fry, Edward Rondthaler, Franklin Gothic, Frederic Goudy, Garamond, Giambattista Bodoni, Goudy Old Style, Granjon, Hobo (typeface), Ingalls Kimball, Inland Type Foundry, Joseph W. Phinney, Ladies' Home Journal, Linn Boyd Benton, List of American Type Founders typefaces, List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy, Ludlow Typograph, ..., Marder, Luse, & Co., Morris Fuller Benton, National Recovery Administration, News Gothic, Nicolas Jenson, Oswald Bruce Cooper, Pabst Brewing Company, Robert Wiebking, Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, Souvenir (typeface), St. Louis, Stephenson Blake, The Boston Globe, The Saturday Evening Post, Theodore Low De Vinne, Thomas Maitland Cleland, Tommy Thompson (type designer), Tower (typeface), Univers, Wadsworth A. Parker, Will H. Bradley, William Bulmer, William Caslon, William Morris, Woellmer Type Foundry. Expand index (25 more) »

Aldus Manutius

Aldus Pius Manutius (Aldo Pio Manuzio; 1449/14526 February 1515) was a Venetian humanist, scholar, and educator.

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American Type Founders

American Type Founders (ATF) was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States.

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Amsterdam Type foundry

The Amsterdam Type foundry (Lettergieterij Amsterdam) was a Dutch type foundry which contributed a number of original type designs early in the 20th century.

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August Dietz

August Dietz (October 19, 1869 – September 26, 1963) was a philatelist, editor and publisher, who specialized in the study of mail and postal history of the Confederate States of America.

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Bank Gothic

Bank Gothic is a rectilinear geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders in 1930.

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Barnhart Brothers & Spindler

Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry was founded as the Great Western Type Foundry in 1873.

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Baskerville

Baskerville is a serif typeface designed in the 1750s by John Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England, and cut into metal by punchcutter John Handy.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Bertram Goodhue

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (April 28, 1869 – April 23, 1924) was an American architect celebrated for his work in Gothic Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival design.

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Blue Eagle

The Blue Eagle was a symbol used in the United States by companies to show compliance with the National Industrial Recovery Act, a part of President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" program.

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Bodoni

Bodoni is the name given to the serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) in the late eighteenth century and frequently revived since.

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Bookman (typeface)

Bookman or Bookman Old Style, is a serif typeface.

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Broadway (typeface)

Broadway is a decorative typeface, perhaps the archetypal Art Deco typeface.

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Bulmer (typeface)

Bulmer is the name given to a serif typeface originally designed by punchcutter William Martin around 1790 for the Shakespeare Press, run by William Bulmer (1757–1830).

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Caslon

Caslon is the name given to serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (c. 1692–1766) in London, or inspired by his work.

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Caslon Antique

Caslon Antique is a decorative American typeface that was designed in 1894 by Berne Nadall.

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Century type family

Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text.

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Charles H. Taylor

Charles Hart Taylor (born January 21, 1941) is an American politician; a Republican, he represented North Carolina's 11th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

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Cheltenham (typeface)

Cheltenham is a typeface for display use designed in 1896 by architect Bertram Goodhue and Ingalls Kimball, director of the Cheltenham Press.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Cincinnati

No description.

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Civilité

Civilité type (in French: "Caractères de civilité") is a typeface invented in 1557 by the French engraver Robert Granjon.

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Clarence P. Hornung

Clarence Pearson Hornung (June 12, 1899 – January 2, 1997) was an American trademark and industrial graphic designer and illustrator.

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Clarendon (typeface)

Clarendon is the name of a slab-serif typeface that was released in 1845 by Thorowgood and Co.

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Claude Garamond

Claude Garamont (– 1561), known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris.

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Clearface

Clearface is a serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton with the collaboration of his father Linn Boyd Benton, produced at American Type Founders in 1907, immediately following his preparation of Century Old Style.

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Cloister (typeface)

Cloister is a serif typeface that was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and published by American Type Founders from around 1913.

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Cooper Black

Cooper Black is an ultra-bold serif typeface intended for display use that was designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922.

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Copperplate Gothic

Copperplate Gothic is a typeface designed by Frederic W. Goudy and released by American Type Founders (ATF) in 1901.

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Curtis Publishing Company

The Curtis Publishing Company, founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became one of the largest and most influential publishers in the United States during the early 20th century.

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Della Robbia

Della Robbia is a surname.

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Eagle (typeface)

Eagle is a font family that is based on '"Eagle Bold", introduced by American Type Founders in 1934.

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Ed Benguiat

Ed Benguiat (pron.; born Ephram Edward Benguiat, October 27, 1927) is an American typographer and lettering artist.

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Edmund Fry

Edmund Fry (1754–1835) was an English type-founder.

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Edward Rondthaler

Edward Rondthaler (June 9, 1905 – August 19, 2009) was a typographer as well as a simplified spelling champion and chairman of the American Literacy Council.

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Franklin Gothic

Franklin Gothic and its related faces are a large family of realist sans-serif typefaces developed by the type foundry American Type Founders (ATF) and credited to its head designer Morris Fuller Benton.

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Frederic Goudy

Frederic W. Goudy (March 8, 1865 in Bloomington, Illinois – May 11, 1947 in Marlborough-on-Hudson) was an American printer, artist and type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley.

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Garamond

Garamond is a group of many old-style serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond (generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime).

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Giambattista Bodoni

Giambattista Bodoni (February 16, 1740 in Saluzzo – November 30, 1813 in Parma) was an Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher in Parma.

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Goudy Old Style

Goudy Old Style (also known as just Goudy) is a classic old-style serif typeface originally created by Frederic W. Goudy for American Type Founders (ATF) in 1915.

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Granjon

Granjon is an old-style serif typeface designed by George W. Jones in the period 1928–1929 for the British branch of the Linotype company, and based on the Garamond typeface that was used in a book printed by the Parisian Jean Poupy in 1592.

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Hobo (typeface)

Hobo is a sans-serif typeface.

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Ingalls Kimball

Ingalls Kimball (born Hannibal Ingalls Kimball; April 2, 1874 – October 16, 1933) was an American printer and entrepreneur.

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Inland Type Foundry

The Inland Type Foundry was an American type foundry established in 1894 in Saint Louis, Missouri and later with branch offices in Chicago and New York City.

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Joseph W. Phinney

Joseph Warren Phinney (born 1848, Nantucket – d. 1934) was an American printer, type designer, and business executive.

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Ladies' Home Journal

Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine published by the Meredith Corporation.

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Linn Boyd Benton

Linn Boyd Benton (1844 in Little Falls, New York – 1932 in Bentonville, Arkansas) was an American typeface designer and inventor of technology for producing metal type.

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List of American Type Founders typefaces

American Type Founders was the largest producer of foundry type in the world, not only of in-house designs, but also from designs that came from merged firms.

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List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy

The following is a list of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy.

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Ludlow Typograph

A Ludlow Typograph is a hot metal typesetting system used in letterpress printing.

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Marder, Luse, & Co.

Marder, Luse, & Co. was founded in 1855 as the Chicago Type Foundry and Printer's Warehouse by C. G. Sheffield as branch of Elihu White's New York foundry, Farmer, Little & Co..

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Morris Fuller Benton

Morris Fuller Benton (November 30, 1872 – June 30, 1948) was an American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders (ATF), for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937.

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National Recovery Administration

The National Recovery Administration was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933.

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News Gothic

News Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface dated to 1908 designed by Morris Fuller Benton, and released by his employer American Type Founders (ATF).

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Nicolas Jenson

Nicholas Jenson (c.1420 – 1480) was a French engraver, pioneer, printer and type designer who carried out most of his work in Venice, Italy.

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Oswald Bruce Cooper

Oswald Bruce Cooper (April 13, 1879 – December 17, 1940) was an American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and teacher of these trades.

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Pabst Brewing Company

The Pabst Brewing Company is an American company that dates its origins to a brewing company founded in 1844 by Jacob Best and was, by 1889, named after Frederick Pabst.

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Robert Wiebking

Robert Wiebking (1870–1927) was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrices for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.

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Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry

J.G. Schelter & Giesecke was a German type foundry and manufacturer of printing presses started 1819 in Leipzig by punchcutter Johann Schelter and typefounder Christian Giesecke.

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Souvenir (typeface)

Souvenir is a serif typeface designed in 1914 by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders.

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St. Louis

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Stephenson Blake

Stephenson Blake is an engineering company based in Sheffield.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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Theodore Low De Vinne

Theodore Low De Vinne (December 25, 1828 – February 16, 1914) was an American printer and scholarly author on typography.

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Thomas Maitland Cleland

Thomas Maitland Cleland (August 18, 1880 – November 9, 1964) was an American book designer, painter, illustrator, and type designer.

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Tommy Thompson (type designer)

Samuel Winfield "Tommy" Thompson (1906–1967) was an American calligrapher, graphic artist and typeface designer.

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Tower (typeface)

Tower was a slab serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders, and based upon his earlier design for Stymie, but with straight sides to the round letters emphasizing the vertical appearance.

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Univers

Univers is the name of a large sans-serif typeface family designed by Adrian Frutiger and released by his employer Deberny & Peignot in 1957.

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Wadsworth A. Parker

Wadsworth A. Parker (b. 1864 – d. 1938, Petersburg, Virginia) was an American printer and typeface designer.

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Will H. Bradley

William Henry Bradley (10 July 1868 – 25 January 1962) was an American Art Nouveau illustrator and artist.

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William Bulmer

Sir William Peter Bulmer (20 May 1920 – 28 November 2012) was Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire from 1978 to 1985.

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William Caslon

William Caslon I (1692/1693 – 23 January 1766), also known as William Caslon the Elder, was an English typefounder.

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William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist.

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Woellmer Type Foundry

The Wöllmer Type Foundry was founded by black-letter and script type designer Wilhelm Wöllmer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Type_Founders_typefaces

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