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hotfix-bentham: v2.002 added (#854)

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Marc Foley
2017-08-07 20:54:17 +01:00
committed by Dave Crossland
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<p>I like the lettering on nineteenth-century maps, on gravestones and on the maker’s plates of cast-iron machinery. It is characterised by expressive flowing and bulging curves, mannered awkwardness and the bobbles on the terminals of its characters. The letterform conventionally called ‘modern face’ is the typographical equivalent, and it can be found in books printed throughout the nineteenth century. Its descendants survived into educational textbooks produced into the late twentieth century, and it is preserved in computer science as the style which Donald Knuth adopted for his <a href="http://www.tug.org/">T<sub>E</sub>X typesetting system</a>.</p> <p>Bentham is a half-way design; it’s true neither to the type produced during the nineteenth century, nor to the letterforms of cartographers, stonecutters, or engravers. It’s really a sort of examination of the characteristics these letters share, coloured by <a href="http://readingtype.org.uk/texts/drawing.html">my approach to type drawing</a>.</p> <p>I plan a companion italic for Bentham. A bold would be worthwhile: the first serious attempts at making ‘matching’ bolder weights of type date back to the era in which the modern style dominated the typecase.</p>
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Bentham is inspired by the lettering of nineteenth-century maps, gravestones and the maker’s plates of cast-iron machinery.
It is characterized by expressive, flowing, and bulging curves, mannered awkwardness, and the bobbles on the terminals of its characters.
The ‘modern face’ type genre is the typographical equivalent, and it can be found in books printed throughout the nineteenth century.
This genre survived in educational textbooks produced throughout the twentieth century, and is preserved in computer science as the style which Donald Knuth adopted for his <a href="http://www.tug.org/">T<sub>E</sub>X typesetting system</a>.
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Bentham is a half-way design;
true neither to the type produced during the nineteenth century, nor to the letterforms of cartographers, stonecutters, or engravers.
Really it is an examination of the characteristics that these letters share, colored by Ben's approach to type drawing.
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ofl/bentham/METADATA.pb
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weight: 400
filename: "Bentham-Regular.ttf"
post_script_name: "Bentham-Regular"
full_name: "Bentham"
full_name: "Bentham Regular"
copyright: "Copyright (c) 1999-2010, Ben Weiner (ben@readingtype.org.uk), with Reserved Font Name Bentham."
}
subsets: "menu"
subsets: "latin"
subsets: "menu"