![]() He previously worked for Adobe (1997–2008) and Extensis (2009–2014).Version 1.004 PS 001.001 hotconv 16.6.51 makeotf.lib0ĪSCII,EBCDIC-CP-BE (Western Europe),IBM CP 037 (English),IBM CP 1026 (Turkish),IBM CP 1140 (Western Europe),ISO Latin-13 (Baltic),ISO Latin-15 (Western Europe),ISO Latin-16 (South-Eastern Europe),ISO Latin-2 (Central and Eastern Europe),ISO Latin-3 (Esperanto, Maltese),ISO Latin-4 (Baltic),ISO Latin-9 (Turkish),MS CP 1250 (Central and Eastern Europe),MS CP 1252 (Western Europe),MS CP 1254 (Turkish),MS CP 1257 (Baltic),Mac Central Europe,Mac Icelandic,Mac Roman,Mac TurkishĪalt case cpsp dnom frac kern liga locl numr onum ordn sinf subs sups tnumīosnian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Turkish Thomas is also secretary of ATypI, the international typographic association. Thomas Phinney is President of FontLab, makers of font creation tools, as well as an independent consultant on fonts. It closed its doors and its assets were sold off, mostly as scrap metal, in an infamous auction in 1993. It made a modest comeback for the next couple of decades, but did not do well in future technological transitions - to phototype in the 1960s–70s, and digital in the 1980s–90s. But the Great Depression drove the company into receivership in 1934, shortly after its key designers and founders retired. What is the Alternate Gothic font Alternate Gothic Font families. The 19 ATF specimen books - over 1000 pages apiece - remain sought-after (but not unaffordable) classics. It enjoyed great success, and was one of the world’s dominant type foundries for forty years. * The original American Type Founders was formed in 1892 by the merger of twenty-three cold-metal type foundries, in response to a recession and the rise of hot metal typesetting. The family includes three weights and three widths. 2 as League Gothic (2009, from League of Movable Type), and of the News Gothic family in the form of Source Sans (2012, by Paul Hunt for Adobe) have both been very popular. Trade Gothic is a sans-serif typeface first designed in 1948 by Jackson Burke (19081975), who continued to work on further style-weight combinations (eventually 14 in all) until 1960 while he was director of type development for Linotype in the US. We see this not only in commercial type (e.g., Benton Sans, by Cyrus Highsmith and Tobias Frere-Jones for Font Bureau), but also in open-source fonts a revival of the single headline font style Alternate Gothic No. These classic American grotesques have long been workhorse staples, and have had quite a resurgence in recent years. When the italics are added, it will be a family of eighty - even perhaps one hundred if a threatened semi-extended materializes. Van Bronkhorst has gone in the opposite direction, extending the Alternate Gothic look to ten weights, and four widths so far. All three share some design characteristics, enough that previous designers adding condensed styles to the other typefaces have relied on the letterforms of Alternate Gothic for guidance - but without keeping its most distinctive feature: straight-sided “pillbox” rounds for letters such as ‘b, c, d, e, g, o, p’. The original was one of several classic American grotesques designed by Benton, along with the noticeably similar designs Franklin Gothic (1903–10) and News Gothic (1908). Van Bronkhorst and others suggest it likely got its name from the then-innovative idea of a typeface with the same style and weight in coordinated varying widths, which could be used together or alternated. *Īlternate Gothic was first released in 1903, the work of ATF’s prolific in-house designer, Morris Fuller Benton. ![]() This 2015 edition not only revives a fabulous classic American typestyle, but a classic American foundry as well: American Type Founders, or “ATF”. ATF Alternate Gothic is a masterful revision in more than forty styles (ten weights and four widths, plus italics coming soon) of a century-old typeface that has been interpreted many times.
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