Reinterpreted and carefully crafted, the ATF® Collection offers more weights and widths, expanded character sets, and robust typographic features in type designs beautifully suited to modern use and media. The American Type Founders® Collection of digital fonts pays homage to the classic typefaces made famous by the American Type Founders Company. Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel, 2019 Morris Fuller Benton, American Type Founders, 1905 The 18-font family offers nine weights with true italics, a Latin-extended character set, and a suite of OpenType features (see the specimen PDF for details). ATF Franklin Gothic maintains the warmth and the spirit of a Benton classic while offering a suite of fonts tuned precisely for contemporary appeal and utility. The text weights are wider and more open than some previous Franklin Gothic interpretations, and as a result are quite legible as text, at very small sizes, and on screen.

With ATF Franklin Gothic, Mark van Bronkhorst looked to Benton’s Monotone Gothic-originally a single typeface in a regular weight, and similar to Franklin Gothic in its forms-as the basis for lighter styles.ĪTF Franklin Gothic may appear familiar given its heritage, but is a new design offering a fresh take on Benton’s work. But as the original type was just a bold display face (later accompanied by a few similarly bold widths and italics), how Benton’s design is expanded to multiple weights and styles as a digital type family can vary significantly.īenton designed several gothic faces that harmonize with one another, including Franklin Gothic, News Gothic, and Monotone Gothic, that can serve as models for new interpretations of his work. A modern typeface in the tradition of 19th-century grotesques, Franklin Gothic was drawn with a distinctive contrast in stroke weight, giving it a unique personality among the more monolinear appearance of later geometric and neo-grotesque sans-serif types.įranklin Gothic has been interpreted into a series of weights before, most notably with ITC Franklin Gothic. It had a bold, direct solidity, yet conveyed plenty of character.

Designed by Morris Fuller Benton and released in 1905 by American Type Founders, Franklin Gothic quickly stood out in the crowded field of sans-serif types, gaining an enduring popularity.īenton’s original design was a display face in a single weight. Franklin Gothic has been the quintessential American sans for more than a century.

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