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Century type family

Index Century type family

Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text. [1]

61 relations: American Type Founders, Antiqua (typeface class), Ball terminal, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Baskerville, Berthold Type Foundry, Bitstream Inc., Caslon, Charles and Ray Eames, Christian Schwartz, Clark University, Comedy Central, Compugraphic, Detroit Free Press, Didone (typography), Didot (typeface), DYMO Corporation, Edwin Ginn, Elsner+Flake, Eric Hill, Font Bureau, Ghostscript, Giambattista Bodoni, Harris Corporation, Hoefler & Co., IBM Selectric typewriter, Information International, Inc., International Typeface Corporation, International Typographical Union, Intertype Corporation, Itek, Lanston Monotype Company, Letter-spacing, Linn Boyd Benton, List of typefaces, Ludlow Typograph, Mark Simonson, Matthew Carter, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Miller (typeface), Monotype Imaging, Morris Fuller Benton, Phototypesetting, Richard Lipton, Rudolph Ruzicka, Scotch Roman, Serif, Singer Corporation, Small caps, Smithsonian Institution, ..., Sol Hess, Spot (franchise), Supreme Court of the United States, The Boston Globe, The Century Magazine, Theodore Low De Vinne, Tobias Frere-Jones, Typeface, URW++, William Morris, X-height. Expand index (11 more) »

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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Antiqua (typeface class)

Antiqua is a style of typeface used to mimic styles of handwriting or calligraphy common during the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Ball terminal

A ball terminal is a design feature of a typeface or glyph where the end of a stroke takes a roughly circular shape, as opposed to a serif or a square end.

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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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Berthold Type Foundry

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Bitstream Inc.

Bitstream Inc. was a type foundry that produced digital typefaces.

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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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Charles and Ray Eames

Charles Ormond Eames, Jr. (1907–1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser Eames (1912–1988) were an American design married couple who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture.

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Christian Schwartz

Christian Schwartz (born December 30, 1977 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States) is an American type designer.

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Clark University

Clark University is an American private research university located in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Compugraphic

Compugraphic Corporation was an American producer of typesetting systems and phototypesetting equipment, based, at the time of the Agfa merger, in Wilmington, Massachusetts, just a few miles from where it was founded.

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Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US.

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Didone (typography)

Didone is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and was the standard style of general-purpose printing during the nineteenth.

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Didot (typeface)

Didot is a group of typefaces named after the famous French printing and type producing Didot family.

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DYMO Corporation

DYMO Corporation is an American company that manufactures handheld label printers and thermal-transfer printing tape as accessory, embossing tape label makers, and other printers such as CD and DVD labelers and durable medical equipment.

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Edwin Ginn

Edwin Ginn (February 14, 1838 – January 21, 1914) was an American publisher, peace advocate, and philanthropist.

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Elsner+Flake

Elsner+Flake is a trademark used by German type foundry originally called EF Designstudios but later renamed Elsner+Flake Type Consulting GmbH and is currently based in Hamburg.

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Eric Hill

Eric Gordon Hill (7 September 1927 – 6 June 2014) was an English author and illustrator of children's picture books, best known for his puppy character named Spot.

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Font Bureau

The Font Bureau, Inc. or Font Bureau is a digital type foundry based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.

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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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Harris Corporation

Harris Corporation is an American technology company, defense contractor and information technology services provider that produces wireless equipment, tactical radios, electronic systems, night vision equipment and both terrestrial and spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense and commercial sectors.

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Hoefler & Co.

Hoefler & Co. (H&Co) is a type foundry in New York City run by type designer Jonathan Hoefler.

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IBM Selectric typewriter

The IBM Selectric typewriter was a highly successful model line of electric typewriters introduced by IBM on 31 July 1961.

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Information International, Inc.

Information International, Inc., commonly referred to as Triple-I or III, was an early computer technology company.

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International Typeface Corporation

The International Typeface Corporation (ITC) was a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler.

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International Typographical Union

The International Typographical Union (ITU) was a US trade union for the printing trade for newspapers and other media.

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Intertype Corporation

The Intertype Corporation produced the Intertype, a typecasting machine closely resembling the Linotype, and using the same matrices as the Linotype.

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Itek

Itek Corporation was a United States defense contractor that initially specialized in camera systems for spy satellites and various other reconnaissance systems.

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Lanston Monotype Company

Lanston Monotype Company was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the end of the nineteenth century by Tolbert Lanston.

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Letter-spacing

Examples of headline letter-spacing In typography, letter-spacing, also referred to as tracking by typographers working with pre-WYSIWYG digital systems, refers to an optically consistent degree of increase (or sometimes decrease) of space between letters to affect visual density in a line or block of text.

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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 typefaces

This is a list of typefaces, which are separated into groups by distinct artistic differences.

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Ludlow Typograph

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

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Mark Simonson

Mark Simonson (b. 1955) is an American independent font designer who works in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter (born 1 October 1937) is a British type designer.

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Mergenthaler Linotype Company

The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.

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Miller (typeface)

Miller is a serif typeface, released in 1997 by the Font Bureau, a U.S.-based digital type foundry.

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Monotype Imaging

Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc. is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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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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Phototypesetting

Phototypesetting is a method of setting type, rendered obsolete with the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software, that uses a photographic process to generate columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper.

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Richard Lipton

Richard Jay Lipton (born September 6, 1946) is an American-British computer scientist who has worked in computer science theory, cryptography, and DNA computing.

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Rudolph Ruzicka

Rudolph Ruzicka (29 June 1883 – 20 July 1978) was a Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer.

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Scotch Roman

Scotch Roman is a class of typefaces popular in the early nineteenth century, particularly in the United States and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom.

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Serif

In typography, a serif is a small line attached to the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol.

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Singer Corporation

Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark.

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Small caps

In typography, small capitals (usually abbreviated small caps) are lowercase characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters ("capitals") but reduced in height and weight, close to the surrounding lowercase (small) letters or text figures, for example:.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Sol Hess

Sol Hess (born 1886, Philadelphia, PA – d. 1953) was an American typeface designer.

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Spot (franchise)

Spot is a yellow puppy character created by Eric Hill, an English author and illustrator of children's picture books.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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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 Century Magazine

The Century Magazine was first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Association.

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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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Tobias Frere-Jones

Tobias Frere-Jones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones; August 28, 1970) is an American type designer who works in New York City.

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Typeface

In typography, a typeface (also known as font family) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features.

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URW++

URW Type Foundry GmbH is a typeface foundry based in Hamburg Germany.

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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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X-height

In typography, the x-height or corpus size is the distance between the baseline and the mean line of lower-case letters in a typeface.

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References

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

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