Monotype composition sizes of Franklin Gothic have been greatly modi- fied to fit a standard arrangement 12-point is shown in the specimen-notice the narrow figures and certain other poorly reproportioned characters. Franklin Gothic Condensed Italic was added by Whedon Davis in 1967. Although Benton started a wide version along with the others, it was abandoned the present Franklin Gothic Wide was drawn by Bud (John L.) Renshaw about 1952. Franklin Gothic Condensed and Extra Condensed were also designed by Benton, in 1906 Italic by the same designer in 1910 and Condensed Shaded in 1912 as part of the "gray typography" series. The principal specimen here is Monotype, but the basic font is virtually an exact copy of the ATF typeface in display sizes, except that Monotype has added f- ligatures and diphthongs. Franklin Gothic is characterized by a slight degree of thick-and-thin contrast by the double-loop g which has become a typically American design in gothic typefaces by the diagonal ends of curved strokes (except in Extra Condensed) and by the oddity of the upper end of C and c being heavier than the lower end. All of these typefaces bear more resem- blance to each other than do the typefaces within some other single families. Franklin Gothic (named for Benjamin Franklin) not only became a family in its own right, but also lent its characteristics to Lightline Gothic. Designed in 1902 by Morris Fuller Benton, it was one of the first important modernizations of traditional nineteenth-century typefaces by that designer, after he was assigned the task of unifying and improving the varied assortment of designs inherited by ATF from its twenty-three predecessor companies.
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Mac McGrew: Franklin Gothic might well be called the patriarch of modern American gothics. Digital versions exist by Bitstream, Elsner&Flake (in a version called ATF Franklin Gothic), Red Rooster (called Franklin Gothic Pro, 2011), Linotype, and ITC ( ITC Franklin Gothic). Solo's version, Comtesse, Elite Kanzlei (1905, Stempel), Meta, Lipsia, QHS Nadejda (QHS Soft), Blackletter 681, Marriage (Softmaker), Wedding Text TL (by Tomas Liubinas). Wedding Text has been copied so often it is sickening: Wedding Regular and Headline (HiH, 2007), Dan X. 1901: Wedding Text (some put this in 1907), Old English Text, Engravers' Old English (a blackletter font remade by Bitstream).Digitizations by Elsner&Flake, Bitstream and URW.
This was a complete redraw of Century Roman which was designed in 1894 by his father, Linn Boyd Benton, for Theodore Low DeVinne, the publisher of Century Magazine.
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