Birch

Birch was designed in 1990 by Kim Buker Chansler, who based her forms on the designs of the turn of the 20th century. The new age needed new typefaces for…

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News Gothic

In 1908, Morris Fuller Benton designed News Gothic for American Type Founders. The original design, with two condensed faces, is essentially a light version of Franklin Gothic. In the late…

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Brush Script

Brush Script was designed in 1942 by Robert E. Smith for American Type Founders. It has a spontaneous, brush-written look, and the lowercase letters are connected as in handwriting. Brush…

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Hobo font

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…

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MICR font

MICR

MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. This set of numeric characters, when printed with special magnetic inks, can be read by special scanners. MICR characters are found in a…

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Stencil font

Stencil

Two typefaces called Stencil were released in 1937 within a month of each other; this one was designed by Gerry Powell for American Type Founders. The characters are designed to…

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