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Monday, September 12, 2011

5 Font Designers Long Gone

Morris Fuller Benton
(1872-1948) USA
:began working in 1896 at the American Type Founders, the company established by his father, Linn Boyd Benton, in 1892
:Designed more than 200 typefaces, including a number of extensions of existing typefaces to create comprehensive type families like Cheltenham (1902)
:some of his diverse typefaces: Franklin Gothic (1904), Engravers Old English (1907), Hobo (1910), Broadway (1928), and Bank Gothic (1930)

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Stanley Morison
(1889-1967) UK
:Co-Founded the Fleuron Society in 1922 with Francis Meynell, Holbrook Jackson, Bernard Newdigate and Oliver Simon- through it he published and edited The Fleuron, a journal of typography
:revived a significant number of typefaces after joining Monotype Corporation in 1923
:created Times New Roman

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Eric Gill
(1882-1940) UK
:prolific sculptor, engraver, and lettercutter in addition to typeface designer
:his first typeface, Perpetua, a serif, was commissioned by Stanley Morison in 1925
:based on Johnston Sans, he created Gill Sans for the Monotype Corporation in 1927

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Paul Renner
(1878-1956) Germany
:Designer, educator, and writer best known for his geometric sans serif, Futura, released in 1928

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Frederic W. Goudy
(1865-1947) USA
:created more than 100 typefaces ranging from sans serif to black letters
:designed most notoriously Copperplate Gothic (1901), Goudy Old Style (1916), and Goudy Text (1928)

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