![]() Changes include exaggerate the glyph features, larger clearances between letter features, reduced stroke contrasts, wider and more open letterforms with increased letter spacing, larger x-heights, shortened ascenders and descenders. It is a version of Benton Sans font designed by David Berlow for screen use between 9 and 18 pixels. The expanded family has 128 fonts in 8 weights, and 4 widths for all weights, with complementary italic and small caps. announced the expansion of the font family. On December 18, 2008, The Font Bureau Inc. The typeface includes text figures (old style figures) providing a refinement not available in News Gothic.īenton Sans font family originally consists of 26 fonts in 8 weights, and 4 widths for all but Extra Light and Thin families, which only include the widest width. Benton Sans has a wider, less compact character set than News Gothic. The typeface differs from other grotesque sans-serifs in its organic shapes and subtle transitions of stroke width, all contributing to a less severe, humanist tone of voice. The character set is compact, and descenders are shallow. The tail of the uppercase Q is distinct for being located completely outside the bowl. Distinct characters are the two-story lowercase a, the two-story lowercase g, and a blunt terminus at the apex of the lowercase t. Like News Gothic, Benton Sans follows the grotesque model. The extra weight and widths also served as optically-corrected replacements for Franklin Gothic, Alternate Gothic, Lightline Gothic. In 2002-2003, Cyrus Highsmith added additional widths, weights, and italics to the typeface family, and the face was released for public use under the name Benton Sans. When working for retail version of the font, the family was harmonized and given the new name called Benton Sans. As Benton Gothic, there are 7 weights from Thin to Black and only 2 widths. The typeface began as a proprietary type, initially titled MSL Gothic, for Martha Stewart Living magazine and the website for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. In developing the typeface, Frere-Jones studied drawings of Morris Fuller Benton's 1908 typeface News Gothic at the Smithsonian Institution. ![]() It was a reworked version of Benton Gothic developed for various corporate customers, under Frere-Jones's guidance. It is based on the sans-serif typefaces designed for American Type Founders by Morris Fuller Benton around the beginning of the twentieth century in the industrial or grotesque style. Benton Sans is a digital typeface family begun by Tobias Frere-Jones in 1995, and expanded by Cyrus Highsmith of Font Bureau.
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