Not to be confused with. Century, Scotch Modern and Date released 1894–1923 Variations Century Expanded, Century Schoolbook, Century Old Style, Century Catalogue Shown here Century Schoolbook Century is a family of type faces particularly intended for body text. The family originates from a first design, Century Roman cut by designer in 1894 for master printer, for use in. ATF rapidly expanded it into a very large family, first by Linn Boyd and later by his son. Century is based on the genre, a style of type of British origin which had been popular in the United States from the early nineteenth century and is part of the genre of type popular through the entire nineteenth century. Its design emphasises crispness and elegance, with strokes ending in fine tapers, and crisp, finely pointed serifs. However, compared to many earlier typefaces in the genre, stroke contrast is quite low, creating a less sharp and highly readable structure.
Limehouse Script is the work of British designer Alan Meeks, a display face with a wide variety of applications. It is a script face with capitals meant to be used with the lowercase letters and strokes to join many characters.
With ATF no longer operating, a wide variety of variants and revivals with varying features and quality are available. Despite originating in the nineteenth century, use of the typeface remains strong for periodicals, textbooks, and literature.
The requires that briefs be typeset in Century family type. According to Charles Shaw, 'The rugged simplicity of the Century family of types has made it an enduring favorite of American typographers for almost one hundred years. Beginning as foundry type, Century has withstood a series of technical transformations into Linotype, Monotype, Ludlow, phototype, transfer type, digital type, and Xerox-like 'toner type'.' Century types from the ATF specimen book, 1912. Century Schoolbook had not yet been released at this time. Characteristics of this typeface are: lower case: curl ending in a ball terminal on top of letter c.
Ball terminal on hook of f, ear of g, and tail of j. Upper case: curled tail on the capital R and reflexive curled tail on the capital Q. Prominent top spur on capital C. Figures: curl ending in a ball terminal on both tails of 3, and on single tail of 2, 5, 6 and 9. Variations [ ] Century Roman [ ] Century Roman Commissioned by for the Date created 1894 Date released November, 1895 issue of, publisher of the, wanted a more legible font for his magazine. He commissioned his friend from the newly formed to devise such a face. Over the course of the nineteenth century, largely because of the influence of, common printing fonts had become thin, making a weak impression on the page.
De Vinne and aesthete decried this 'growing effeminacy' and called for a reversion to blacker faces. The face L.B. Spectra plus software. Benton produced, Century Roman, had a larger than most faces and thicker hair-lines than was common, yet the proportions of a condensed face because De Vinne believed this to be more legible. This was made only in foundry type and later an accompanying face of normal width was produced by L.B.
Benton, called variously Century Broad Face or Century No. Despite being the original member of the Century family, it is not popular compared to the later members of the family with more normal proportions.