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title: "Typefaces designed in the 1930s"
description: "2 typefaces first cut in the 1930s, who drew each one, and what a design using it reads as today. Plus what came before and after."
url: https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1930s/
site: "At One Place"
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# Typefaces designed in the 1930s

2 typefaces first released in the 1930s, in order.

| Typeface | Year | Designer | Kind | What it signals now |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Times New Roman | 1932 | Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent | Serif | A document that had no design decision made about it. Academic submissions, legal filings, defaults. |
| Rockwell | 1934 | Monotype Design Studio | Slab serif | Solid, industrial, a bit retro-American. |

- [Times New Roman](https://atoneplace.net/font/times-new-roman/) — Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent, 1932
- [Rockwell](https://atoneplace.net/font/rockwell/) — Monotype Design Studio, 1934

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