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New Type! Benton Modern Display, All Grown Up

Posted by FB Admin on September 8th, 2008 — in News

Font Bureau is pleased to announce the release of a major new typefaces from our drawing studio: Benton Modern Display!

Benton Modern Text was first prepared by Font Bureau for the Boston Globe and the Detroit Free Press. Design and proportions were taken from M.F. Benton’s turn-of-the-century Century Expanded, drawn for ATF, faithfully reviving this epoch-making […]

New Type! Rocky, a Latin With Bodoni Proportions, or a Bodoni With Latin Serifs?

Posted by FB Admin on September 8th, 2008 — in News

Font Bureau is pleased to announce the release of a major new typefaces from our drawing studio: Rocky!

For years Matthew Carter wondered why no Latins with Bodoni proportions had been developed, or why no Bodonis had Latin serifs. He solved this problem by drawing Rocky Regular and Bold with italics to fill the gap, then […]

New Type! ITC Franklin, the Definitive Revision by David Berlow

Posted by FB Admin on September 8th, 2008 — in News

Font Bureau is pleased to announce the release of a major new typefaces from our drawing studio: ITC Franklin, the definitive revision by David Berlow.

In 1902 American Type Founders’ release of Franklin Gothic introduced Morris Fuller Benton. In 1979 Victor Caruso, International Typeface Corporation, increased the series to four photocomp weights, Light, Medium, Bold and […]

 
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