I use this space to gather notes and samples of typefaces. My purpose here is not to be exhaustive, but to learn and be useful in the process.
Serif Sans-serif Italic Script
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Gothic
Serif Sans-serif Italic Script
Although we now have typefaces like Franklin Gothic that confuse matters, for much of the history of typography gothic type meant blackletter, like the original typeface used by Johann Gutenberg in his famous printing press. Blackletter was type, but type that emulated the most common handwritten scripts of the era.
Developed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1903, Franklin Gothic was named after the American statesman Benjamin Franklin.
Notes and sources:
Alexander Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
Ellen Lupton, Thinking With Type
Phillip B. Meggs, A History of Graphic Design
Alan Bartram, Five Hundred Years of Book Design
Wikipedia, among others. Some images from Wikipedia are used under the Creative Commons license, and have been resized.
