Electra
This is W.A. Dwiggins’ personal version of the Transitional roman, designed for C.H. Griffith at Mergenthaler.
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Modern Twenty
The Modern Twenty font is a display design with classic Modern characteristics, based on a 1982 design by Ed Benguiat.
Egyptienne F
Deberny & Peignot’s elegant humanist slabserif designed as a photocomposition textface by Adrian Frutiger in 1956.
Plantin
Plantin is a Renaissance Roman as seen through a late–industrial-revolution paradigm. Its forms aim to celebrate fine sixteenth century book typography with the requirements of mechanized typesetting ...
Eckmann
Eckmann is a trademark of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions, exclusively licensed through Linotype Library GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of ...
Diotima
Diotima was designed by Gudrun Zapf von Hesse in 1948, the italic even earlier, in 1939. Diotima is a festive font particularly well-suited to invitations, programs and poems. The delicate italic ...
Gloucester
Gloucester is a smart, chipper, and studious typeface that evokes British literature and historic books. It's highly legible and great for kids books. Use this font for a pub sign, a book about ...
Corona
Decreasing width of the American newspaper web led to narrower news columns, and a demand for a more condensed typeface. Reaction from the quiet texture of Excelsior suggested a stronger contrast, ...
Linotype Seven
Linotype Seven is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the contestants of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. This prize-winning font was designed by the ...
Zeitgeist
With Zeitgeist, designer Michael Johnson explored the limitations of early digital technology: the letters are built up in the style of low resolution bitmaps. The design was completely carried out ...