Morris Fuller Benton (November 30, 1872 – June 30, 1948) was an American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders...
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were made about 14" high. These drawings were then turned over to Morris Fuller Benton at American Type Founders (ATF) who developed it into a final design...
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All of Benton's typefaces were cut by American Type Founders. Roycroft (c. 1898), inspired by lettering in the Saturday Evening Post and often credited...
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Bank Gothic (category Typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton)
Gothic is a rectilinear geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders and released in 1930. The design has become...
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Parisienne, a full-size rear-wheel drive vehicle a font designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1928 SS Parisian, a steamship in the Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers...
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Franklin Gothic (category Typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton)
foundry American Type Founders (ATF) and credited to its head designer Morris Fuller Benton. "Gothic" was a contemporary term (now little-used except to describe...
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Broadway (typeface) (category Typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton)
archetypal Art Deco typeface. The original face was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1927 for ATF as a capitals-only display face. It had a long initial...
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Founders by Morris Fuller Benton around the beginning of the twentieth century in the industrial or grotesque style. It was a reworked version of Benton Gothic...
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paleontologist Morris Fuller Benton (1872–1948), American typeface designer Nathaniel S. Benton (1792–1869), American politician Nicholas F. Benton (born 1944)...
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Century type family (redirect from Benton Modern Text)
foundries into American Type Founders in 1892, Linn Boyd Benton's son, Morris Fuller Benton, was given the task of consolidating and purging the faces...
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ATF name instead of retaining their former ones. Linn Boyd Benton's son, Morris Fuller Benton, was given the job of purging obsolete and duplicated type...
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Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Typemaking at ATF" (PDF). Printing History. 16. Retrieved 17 December 2016. Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton,...
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inspired by the forms of the American Type Founders' gothics by Morris Fuller Benton, such as News Gothic, Lightline Gothic and Franklin Gothic, modified...
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Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Agency FB Designer: Caleigh Huber & Morris Fuller Benton Class: Geometric Akzidenz-Grotesk Designer: Günter Gerhard Lange...
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News Gothic (category Typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton)
News Gothic is a sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton, and was released in 1908 by his employer American Type Founders (ATF). The typeface...
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Clearface (category Typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton)
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...
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Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and many additional faces designed by Morris Fuller Benton. Later examples include Futura, Lucida, ITC Officina. Some became...
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designed by Morris Fuller Benton. Goudy Catalog (1919, ATF) and Goudy Catalog Italic (1921, ATF), were designed by Morris Fuller Benton as medium weight...
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Souvenir (typeface) (category Typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton)
Souvenir is a serif typeface designed in 1914 by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders. It was loosely based on Schelter-Antiqua and Schelter-Kursiv...
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Hobo (typeface) (category Typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton)
having virtually no straight lines or descenders. It was created by Morris Fuller Benton and issued by American Type Founders in 1910. A light version, Light...
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a direct revival of Bodoni's work. All variants were designed by Morris Fuller Benton who captured the flavour of Bodoni's original while emphasizing legibility...
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Agency FB (category Typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton)
expansion of a capitals-only titling face created in the 1930s by Morris Fuller Benton, adding lower-case characters and a wider range of widths and weights...
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most prolific designer of metal type in the United States (behind Morris Fuller Benton and R. Hunter Middleton), with ninety faces actually cut and cast...
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from merged firms. Many of its designs were created or adapted by Morris Fuller Benton, his father Linn, Joseph W. Phinney or Frederic Goudy. These foundry...
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Founders' Cloister Old Style was created by its design team led by Morris Fuller Benton around 1915, during the same period as Centaur. Ludlow created another...
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Designer: Bruce Rogers Class: Old style Century Schoolbook Designer: Morris Fuller Benton Class: Modern Chaparral Designer: Carol Twombly Class: Slab serif...
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Missing from most digitisations but included on the LTC release. By Morris Fuller Benton: Goudy Bold (1916) Goudy Title (1918), a full size variation on Goudy's...
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Cloister (typeface) (category Typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton)
Cloister is a serif typeface that was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and published by American Type Founders from around 1913. It is loosely based on...
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Cost, Patricia (May 1986). "The Contributions of Linn Boyd Benton and Morris Fuller Benton to the technology of typesetting and typeface design" (MS thesis)...
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for the rest of his career, passing the role of design head to Morris Fuller Benton and becoming senior vice-president. Phinney retired shortly before...
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