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ATF Bodoni
Not all type specimens are pretty. Some typesetting shops were small businesses who could’t afford fancy layouts published as books. But we can look at their specimens and be reminded that type is just as functional as it is pretty.
Antarctican
Check out my new type family, Antarctican! An American gothic sans with text and headline fonts. https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/dunwich-type-founders/antarctican
Antarctican hybridizes ruler and compass geometry and American wood type. Â Asymmetric contrast, deep notches, and a tall x-height aid legibility at small sizes and demand attention when set large. Text styles are monospaced and headlines styles are proportionally spaced. This allows text to challenge convention while the headlines can be set in weights ranging from thin to ultrablack.
Support for over 200 languages allows Antarctican to set type for international readerships. OpenType niceties include small caps, lining, superior and inferior numbers, prebuilt fractions in monospaced fonts and arbitrary fractions in headline fonts, and f ligatures.
Nineteenth Century Novelty
Squares and Dots
Never forget that designers were once stuck with the squares, dots, and stars that a type shop had in stock.
Dom Casual
Venus Extra Bold Extended
Caslon 540 Italic
Caslon 540 was a version of Caslon with descenders shortened to fit on a standard line. It was released by ATF in response to a similar design by Inland.
ATF Bodoni
Another ATF Bodoni specimen today.
Hamilton Wood Type Blackletter
This is a rather ugly fraktur type specimen from Hamilton. The weights of the letters are inconsistent—just look at “Movable” in the first line. The routing is inconsistent across sizes—just look at how a changes across the three sizes. I’m not sure if that means they used multiple patterns or just didn’t care about the quality in 1884. And that five looks like it was carved by hand!
Becker’s Pearl Letter
This was engraved in 1854 for George Becker’s letting manual.
Agates
In typography the term “agate” applies to typefaces designed for a size of five and a half points. Agate type was used in newspapers to present data like stock prices or sports results, as well as legal notices. Extreme ink gain makes newspaper is a hostile environment for text. So agate types tend to have large apertures and prominent ink traps to preserve legibility.
Contemporary digital agates include Retina by Tobias Frere Jones and Trench Sans by India Type Foundry.
Linotype DeVinne
Bodoni Medium
Dom Casual
Pete Dombrezian designed Dom Casual. It was intended for use as a photo typesetting font, but was released as metal type in 1952.
Caslon 540
Venus Extra Bold Extended
Bernhard Gothic Heavy
Lucian Bernhard’s classic Bernhard Gothic was released by ATF in 1929 and 1930. Bernhard gothic was designed to cash in on Futura’s fame, much like the flood of Brandon Grotesque knockoffs that now appear weekly. Except Bernhard worked a great deal of originality into his work.