In ITC Franklin Gothic.the ear on the g keeps popping up like a schoolchild overly eager to answer a question." Calligrapher and design historian Paul Shaw argued that it was a failure for "mucking about with the distinctive Franklin Gothic g. While ITC Franklin Gothic is the most common release, it has been criticised for modifying the structure of the family considerably.
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Microsoft Windows has distributed "Franklin Gothic Medium," one of ITC's variants of the font, in all copies since at least Windows 95. Bitstream’s version is called Gothic 744. Victor Caruso drew a multi-weight family for the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1979 and in 1991, ITC commissioned the Font Bureau in Boston to create condensed, compressed and extra compressed versions of ITC Franklin Gothic.
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Probably the best-known extension of Franklin Gothic is Victor Caruso's 1970s ITC Franklin Gothic, which expands the series to include book weights similar to Benton's News Gothic in a high x-height 1970s style. Many versions and adaptations have been made since. Benton's Franklin Gothic family is a set of solid designs, particularly suitable for display and trade use such as headlines rather than for extended text. Despite a period of eclipse in the 1930s, after the introduction of European faces like Kabel and Futura, they were re-discovered by American designers in the 1940s and have remained popular ever since. The typeface continues to maintain a high profile, appearing in a variety of media from books to billboards. “Gothic” was a contemporary term (now little-used except to describe period designs) meaning sans-serif.įranklin Gothic has been used in many advertisements and headlines in newspapers. Gothic #1, Square Gothic Heavy, Gothic #16įranklin Gothic and its related faces are a large family of sans-serif typefaces in the industrial or grotesque style developed in the early years of the 20th century by the type foundry American Type Founders (ATF) and cred to its head designer Morris Fuller Benton.