A Specimen ITC Franklin Gothic Std
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Franklin Gothic a specimen ITC Franklin Gothic Std Foundry: ITC Typeface designed by: Morris Fuller Benton Year of publication: 2014 Specimen designed by: Dana Sulit 2 Table of Contents History 3 About the Designer 4 Weights & Styles 5 The Letters 7 Other Characters 9 Look Familiar? 10 How to Purchase 11 Colophon 12 3 Franklin Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface that originated at the turn of the 20th century. Here is its story. 1902 Morris Fuller Benton of the American Type Founders creates and cuts Franklin Gothic for the first time. 1905 Franklin Gothic is released as a font of metal type. 1980 Victor Caruso created 4 new weights for Franklin Gothic for the International Typeface Corporation. 1991 David Berlow added 12 condensed and compressed history styles to the font family. 4 1872– 1948 About the Designer: Morris Fuller Benton A discussion of the evolution in department, and held the position typography America is utterly of chief type designer from 1900 incomplete without a reflection to 1937. Benton was the designer on Morris Fuller Benton. Benton responsible for many influential rightly earned the informal title typefaces such as Broadway, News of America’s most prolific type Gothic, and of course, the beloved designer for his production of 221 Franklin Gothic. typefaces. He was the head of the American Type Founders’ design 5 weights & styles 6 Franklin Gothic Book Book Extra Condensed Book Compressed Book Compressed Italic Book Condensed Book Condensed Italic Book Book Italic Franklin Gothic Medium Medium Condensed Medium Condensed Italic Medium Medium Italic Franklin Gothic Demi Demi Extra Condensed Demi Compressed Demi Compressed Italic Demi Condensed Demi Condensed Italic Demi Demi Italic Franklin Gothic Heavy Heavy Heavy Italic 7 (250 pt ITC Franklin Gothic Std Medium) Franklin Gothic has a more gaobvious stroke weight contrast than other modern sans-serif typefaces. Here, we see that Franklin Gothic features a more traditional two-story lowercase g and a. Also note the distinctive ear of the g, and the angled stroke of the a, which is also apparent in the c and e. 8 (44 pt ITC Franklin Gothic Std Demi) Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 9 (60 pt ITC Franklin Gothic Std Heavy) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) 10 It is a period of civil war. Look Familiar? Rebel spaceships, striking Franklin Gothic has deservedly earned renown as from a hidden base, have won one of the most widely used their first victory against sans-serif typefaces. Here the evil Galactic Empire. are just a few of the most recognizable applications of the typeface. MoMA Bank of TIME America Star Wars (opening SHOWTIME ROCKY crawl) 11 ITC Franklin Gothic is a International Type trademark of The International Corporation Typeface Corporation which may be registered in certain Distributed by: jurisdictions. All rights www.linotype.com reserved. $29/ style! How to Purchase Franklin Gothic Franklin Gothic is available as a fractions, standard ligatures, desktop font with 20 typeface ordinals, and superscripts. variations. The weight & style variations are exactly as pictured on Each style is only $29. The page 6 of this specimen. complete family pack is $508. Franklin Gothic may be purchased The font supports the Basic online at www.linotype.com. Latin character set, and includes 12 ITC Franklin Gothic is a trademark of The International Typeface Corporation which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All rights reserved. Operating System: Mac OS X 10.9.1 Software: Adobe InDesign CS6 School: S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Course: Graphics 437 Professor: colophon Claudia Strong 2014.