

At the basis of the early development of many classy PostScript fonts. It offers a whole range of font services and has an extensive (7000+) font library. URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, named after Gerhard Rubow and Rudolf Weber, cofounders of the original URW company from which urw++ evolved. URW++ Design&Development GmbH is a Hamburg-based foundry established in 1995 by Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau, Peter Rosenfeld, and Jürgen Willrodt. For a beautiful handmade outline serif for your business cards, mood boards, and blog headings, check out Viktoria.TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Need a strong typeface for headlines or logos? You can’t go wrong with the bold sans serif, BADGER. If you want the Franklin Gothic Book Regular variant, head on over to Fonts Geek to download them at no cost. The ATF Franklin Gothic version on the other hand, can be found on Adobe Fonts. For the free version, you can get them from Download Fonts. You can buy the entire font family or its individual variants from My Fonts. Another testament to its utility is seen in various company logos, including those for Showtime and Bank of America. Star Wars benefited from the easy-to-read Franklin Gothic Condensed for their subtitles. It has also evident in applications beyond print media, such as in the movie Rocky. The American and Canadian versions of Scrabble have Franklin Gothic for letter tiles. Time Magazine uses it for headlines and article titles, while The New York Times utilizes the font in several section headlines. Franklin Gothic Legacyįranklin Gothic is a respected typeface that’s featured in many prominent media. ‘Bud’ Renshaw designed Franklin Gothic Wide in 1952, while Franklin Gothic Condensed Italic was created by Whedon Davis in 1967. The foundry added two more variants many years later. The original fonts were Franklin Gothic (1902), Franklin Gothic Condensed + Extra Condensed (1906), Franklin Gothic Italic (1910), and Franklin Gothic Condensed Shaded (1912) – all of these were designed by Benton and issued by the ATF. Franklin Gothic in itself was an extra-bold sans serif type, which was expanded in the course of 10 years. It was named after Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s most prolific printers. Morris Fuller Benton was credited for its design in 1902. Fonts 5,805 Fonts Franklin Gothic Variants and History
