Morris Fuller Benton
Visual Artist
1872 – 1948
Who was Morris Fuller Benton?
Morris Fuller Benton was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders, for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937. Benton was America's most prolific type designer, having completed 221 typefaces, ranging from revivals of historical models like ATF Bodoni, to adding new weights to existing faces such as Goudy Old Style and Cheltenham, and to designing original designs such as Hobo, Bank Gothic, and Broadway. Benton's large family of related neogrotesque sans-serif typefaces, known as "gothics" as was the norm at the time, includes Alternate Gothic, Franklin Gothic, and News Gothic. These typefaces better anticipated and were more similar to later realist sans-serif typefaces such as Helvetica than the other early grotesque types of his contemporaries.
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- Born
- Nov 30, 1872
Milwaukee - Education
- Cornell University
- Died
- Jun 30, 1948
Morristown
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on July 23, 2013
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