Century Schoolbook
In 1924 Morris Fuller Benton designed for ATF a new variation on his father’s design, Century Oldstyle. Century Schoolbook has become a synonym for readability.
Cheltenham
Daniel Berkeley Updike seems to have stimulated the architect Bertram G. Goodhue to design the prototype in 1896 for Ingalls Kimball at the Cheltenham Press. Six years later Morris Fuller…
Engravers’ Old English BT
Designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1907; an improved version of the familiar nineteenth century blackletter as he had executed it in his Wedding Text.
Franklin Gothic
Produced by ATF in 1904, Morris Fuller Benton’s personal version of the heavy sanserifs first made popular by Vincent Figgins in 1830. Franklin Gothic remains popular after over a hundred…
Goudy Catalogue
Goudy Catalogue was designed by Morris F. Benton in 1919. A medium weight adaptation of the of the original Goudy design, it is about 15 percent heavier than the Oldstyle.
Hobo
Hobo was designed in 1910 by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders. This unusual Art Nouveau-inspired design contains no straight lines and no descenders. It imparts a friendliness to…
Piranesi
An informal script designed for ATF as an italic for his Piranesi by W.T. Sniffin.
Stymie
Morris Fuller Benton’s 1931 design, reworking the model of Memphis for ATF.
Typo Upright
A faithful reproduction of the common French Ronde of the nineteenth century; the design originates at the Inland Typefoundry in St. Louis as French Script and was revised by Morris…