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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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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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Bell Gothic font

Bell Gothic

Designed specifically for AT&T to set telephone directories by Chauncey Griffith at Mergenthaler in 1938, Bell Gothic was the standard American directory typeface for forty years. Limited in performance by…

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