History os Fonts- Week 6

Garamond

Sep 2, 1530

Garamond is a group of many old-style serif typefaces, originally those designed by Parisian craftsman Claude Garamond and other 16th century French engravers, and now many modern revivals.

Caslon

Sep 23, 1725

a kind of roman typeface first introduced in the 18th century.
In Caslon's fonts, the 'A' has a concave hollow at top left, the 'G' is without a downwards-pointing spur at bottom right and the sides of the 'M' are straight.[4] The 'W' has three terminals at the top and the 'b' has a small tapered stroke ending at bottom left.[4] Ascenders and descenders are short and the level of stroke contrast is modest in body text sizes.

Fette Fraktur

Jan 3, 1850

This heavy nineteenth century version was developed more for advertising than text, similar to the extremely heavy advertising versions of Didone classification faces like Poster Bodoni, Thorogood, and Fat Face.

Franklin Gothic

Oct 13, 1902

Franklin Gothic has been used in many advertisements and headlines in newspapers. The typeface continues to maintain a high profile, appearing in a variety of media from books to billboards.

Cooper black

Jul 13, 1922

The typeface is drawn as an extra bold weight of Cooper Old Style. Though not based on a single historic model, Cooper Black exhibits influences of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and the Machine Age. Cooper Black was a predominant lettering style popularized by Oswald Bruce Cooper in Chicago and the Midwest of America in the 1920s, given typographic form

Gill Sans

Sep 11, 1926

Gill Sans takes inspiration from the calligrapher and lettering artist Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground, now (although not at the time) most often simply called the "Johnston" typeface

Futura

Oct 13, 1927

Futura has an appearance of efficiency and forwardness. Although Renner was not associated with the Bauhaus, he shared many of its idioms and believed that a modern typeface should express modern models, rather than be a revival of a previous design

Rockwell

Oct 13, 1934

The lowercase a is two-storey. Because of its monoweighted stroke, Rockwell is used primarily for display or small-size use rather than lengthy bodies of body text.

Helvetica

Mar 14, 1957

Over the years, a wide range of variants have been released in different weights, widths and sizes, as well as matching designs for a range of non-Latin alphabets. Notable features of Helvetica as originally designed include the termination of all strokes on horizontal or vertical lines and unusually tight letter spacing, which give it a dense, compact appearance.

Bell Centennial

May 13, 1978

Bell Centennial was designed to address and overcome most of the limitations of telephone directory printing: poor reproduction due to high-speed printing on newsprint, and ink spread which decayed legibility as it closed up counterforms. Carter's design increased the x-height of lowercase characters, slightly condensed the character width, and carved out many more open counters and bowls to increase legibility

Avenir

Oct 13, 1988

Frutiger intended Avenir to be a more organic, humanist interpretation of these highly geometric types. While similarities can be seen with Futura, the two-story lowercase a is more like Erbar, and also recalls Frutiger’s earlier namesake typeface

Trajan

Oct 13, 1989

The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Trajan's Column from which the typeface takes its name

FF Meta

May 13, 1991

FF Meta was intended to be a "complete antithesis of Helvetica", which he found "boring and bland".[2] It originated from an unused commission for the Deutsche Bundespost (West German Post Office). Throughout the 1990s

Georgia

Nov 13, 1993

As a transitional serif design, Georgia shows a number of traditional features of 'rational' serif typefaces from around the early 19th century, such as alternating thick and thin strokes, ball terminals, a vertical axis and an italic taking inspiration from calligraphy

Comic Sans

Oct 20, 1994

The typeface has been supplied with Microsoft Windows since the introduction of Windows 95, initially as a supplemental font in the Windows Plus Pack and later in Microsoft Comic Chat. Describing it, Microsoft has explained that "this casual but legible face has proved very popular with a wide variety of people

Zapfino

Oct 13, 1998

Zapfino is a calligraphic typeface designed for Linotype. As a font, it makes extensive use of ligatures and character variations (for example, the lower case letter d has nine variations).

Bodoni

Oct 13, 1999

Bodoni's typefaces are classified as Didone or modern. Bodoni followed the ideas of John Baskerville, as found in the printing type Baskerville—increased stroke contrast reflecting developing printing technology and a more vertical axis