{"id":25935,"date":"2011-02-25T19:51:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T03:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=25935"},"modified":"2012-01-31T05:01:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T13:01:04","slug":"league-gothic-open-source-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25935","title":{"rendered":"League Gothic, open source font"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I gave my design history talk on American Type Founders’<\/a> Gothics – a large collection of (mostly 19th century) sans serifs typefaces.<\/p>\n

ATF was formed in 1892 by a merger of 23 American type companies – resulting in, literally, a huge pile of metal that had to be sorted, catalogued, duplicates removed and if necessary, redesigned. Morris Fuller Benton<\/a> (1872-1948) ended up doing a lot of the dirty work – among the results were ATF’s very industrial Gothic series of typefaces.<\/p>\n

These types exist today in many digital forms – some with their original ATF names, such as Franklin Gothic<\/a> and News Gothic<\/a> – or as revivals, which includes Benton Sans<\/a> and Jonathan Hoefler’s comprehensive Knockout<\/a> series.<\/p>\n

Amidst recent revivals is Caroline Hadilaksono and Micah Rich’s League Gothic (above) – an interpretation of ATF’s Alternate Gothic No. 1 (below).<\/p>\n

Snag your own free version here.<\/a><\/p>\n

And hell, if you see any problems, fix em. The font is open source.<\/a><\/p>\n


\nAlternate Gothic No. 1 specimen (cropped), ATF’s Book of American Types, 1934<\/em><\/p>\n


\nM.F. Benton, read more on Benton here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t

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