Beton

The Bauer Typefoundry first released the Beton family of types in 1936. Created by the German type designer Heinrich Jost, the present digital version of the Beton family consists of…

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Cardamon font

Cardamon

“My goal in creating the Cardamon family,” says Brigitte Schuster of her first design, “was to make an unobtrusive serif typeface which, at the same time, has a determined and…

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Castle font

Castle

This family, which includes faces in light, book, bold, and ultra weights, more stroke contrast than is typical of sans serifs, making it very legible in text. Because of its…

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Century Old Style font Corona font

Corona

In 1941, Chauncey H. Griffith supervised the redrawing of Corona to improve its utility as a newspaper typeface; one of the five typefaces in Griffith’s Legibility Group, Corona was designed…

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DIN Neuzeit Grotesk font Egizio Condensed font Egyptienne F font

Egyptienne F

Designed in 1956 by Adrian Frutiger, this slab serif, or Egyptian, typeface was the first text typeface created expressly for photocomposition and printing by offset lithography. Egyptienne F has a…

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Eurostile font Excelsior font

Excelsior

Excelsior was produced in 1931 under the supervision of Chauncey H. Griffith of Linotype. Like Corona, Excelsior was one of the five typefaces in Griffith’s Legibility Group, types that were…

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