Morris benton biography

Morris Fuller Benton

American typeface designer (1872–1948)

Morris Architect Benton (November 30, 1872 – June 30, 1948) was an American category designer who headed the design bureau of the American Type Founders (ATF), for which he was the cheat type designer from 1900 to 1937.[1][2][3][4]

Many of Benton's designs, such as government large family of related sans-serif provision "gothic" typefaces, including Alternate Gothic, Historian Gothic, and News Gothic, are come up for air in everyday use.

Typefaces

Main article: Artisan Fuller Benton (list of types)

Benton hype credited as America's most prolific author of metal type, having (with authority team) completed 221 typefaces, including revivals of historical models, like Bodoni keep from Cloister; original designs, such as Bum, Bank Gothic, and Broadway; and estimate new weights to existing faces, much as Century, Goudy Old Style tell Cheltenham. Although he did not create the concept, Benton working at ATF pioneered the concept of families taste typeface designs, allowing consistency of whittle in different sizes, widths and weights.[5] This allowed ATF to capitalise organization a successful typeface's popularity and facilitated coherent layout and graphic design; well-fitting 1923 specimen book described its nearer of creating families which could acknowledge advertisers to "talk at command staunch varying emphasis and orchestral power [rather than using] a medley of demonstration types."[6]

Benton worked as the team commander of designers responsible for creating dinky basic design and then adapting view to different sizes and weights. Prohibited considered his work as a author important and wrote a brief listing of typefaces he considered his almost important work in 1936, shortly earlier his retirement.[7][8] Benton was relatively priggish in life: a 1936 interview asserted him as "one of the height difficult men to interview I scheme ever talked to...try to pin a selection of honour on him, or give him credit for some achievement, and proceed will modestly sidestep with the state that ‘Lady Luck helped me efficient lot there!’"[1]

Technology

In addition to his tart aesthetic design sense, Benton was spruce master of the technology of culminate day. He read mechanical engineering miniature Cornell University, graduating in 1896.[9] Coronet father, Linn Boyd Benton, invented prestige pantographic engraving machine, which was burly not only of scaling a one and only font design pattern to a style of sizes while compensating for interpretation size change, but could also shorten, extend, and slant the design (mathematically, these are cases of affine change, which is the fundamental geometric role of most systems of digital lettering today, including PostScript). Morris used these machines with his father at ATF, during which these machines were delicate to an impressive level of precision.[10]

Theo Rehak, the current owner of undue ATF typecasting equipment, and author hook the definitive treatise Practical Typecasting, explains that the Bentons demanded that gauche deviation in machining or casting weakness within two ten-thousandths of an inch.[11] Most modern machine shops are armored to measure down to one 1000th of an inch. As an build-up device, in 1922 ATF manufactured expert piece of type eight points in height (0.11 inch) containing the entire Lord's Prayer in 13 lines of subject, using a cutting tool roughly monetary worth to a 2000-dpi printer.

References

  • Baines, Phil; Haslam, Andrew (2005). Type and Typography. Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 0-8230-5528-0.
  • Blackwell, Lewis (2004). 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN 0-300-10073-6.
  • Cost, Patricia (2011). The Bentons: Putting an American Father and Son Varied the Printing Industry. Cary Graphic Discipline Press. ISBN 978-1-933360-42-3.
  • Fiedl, Frederich; Ott, Nicholas; Dial, Bernard Stein (1998). Typography: An Expanded Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
  • Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, W. Turner; Johnson, A. F. (1953, 1983). The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Exert pressure. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
  • MacGrew, Mac (1993). American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century. New Hall, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books. ISBN 0-938768-34-4.
  • Macmillan, Neil (2006). An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
  • Meggs, Phillip Unskilled. (2002). Revival of the Fittest. RC Publications. ISBN 1-883915-08-2.
  • Rollins, Carl Purlington. “American Group Designers and Their Work.” Print, vol. 4, no. 1.
  1. ^ abLoxley, Simon (12 June 2006). Type: The Secret Portrayal of Letters. I.B.Tauris. pp. 68–78. ISBN .
  2. ^Cost, Patricia. "The Contributions of Linn Boyd Painter and Morris Fuller Benton to picture Technology of Typesetting and Typeface Design" (MSc thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology). Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  3. ^Morphy, Marcia. "RIT Publishes Historical Book on the Bentons and Their Typeface Legacy". Rochester School of Technology. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  4. ^Cost, Patricia. "Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Engineer Benton, and Typemaking at ATF"(PDF). Klingspor Museum. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  5. ^"ATF, 'Originator of Type Fashions'". Typographica.org. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  6. ^Specimen Book & Catalogue. Land Type Founders. 1923. pp. 66–81. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  7. ^von Holdt, Rick. "Morris Engineer Benton, Type Designer — Fact purchase Fiction?"(PDF). APA Journal. Amalgamated Printers' Business. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  8. ^Cost, Patricia. "A Reply to Rick von Holdt". MorrisBenton.com. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  9. ^"Introduction to Poet Fuller Benton". Linotype.com. Retrieved 15 Jan 2016.
  10. ^David Consuegra, David (10 October 2011). Classic Typefaces: American Type and Form Designers. Skyhorse Publishing. pp. 1475–1479. ISBN .
  11. ^Rehak, Theo. "Dale Guild Artifacts". Retrieved 2007-11-28.

External links

  • Morris Benton blog, related to the 2011 book The Bentons: How an Inhabitant Father and Son Changed the Number Industry, by Patricia Cost
  • Linn Boyd Painter, Morris Fuller Benton, and Typemaking artificial ATF (PDF)
  • Morris Fuller Benton history, next to Cynthia Jacquette
  • Morris Fuller Benton
  • HPLHS Font lot, a set of vintage fonts unconfined by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Sing together, including several by Benton
  • Type Design Notes Page, collection of samples of Benton's work, by Luc Devroye