Franklin Gothic
Franklin Gothic
Morris Fuller Benton, 1902
Sans-serif · American newspapers, headlines, twentieth-century news.
Named for Benjamin Franklin, who was a printer before he was anything else. Its heavier weights hold together at very large sizes, which made it the default for headlines in an era when a headline was set in metal. It is still one of the most legible sans-serifs at extreme weight.
The facts
- Designed by
- Morris Fuller Benton
- Released
- 1902
- Classification
- Sans-serif
- What it signals now
- American newspapers, headlines, twentieth-century news.
Where you have seen it
- Newspaper headlines throughout the twentieth century
- Lots of book covers
- Numerous US political campaigns
This page describes the typeface rather than showing it. Displaying a specimen requires a licensed font file and almost none of these may be redistributed, so the descriptions name the letters to look at instead.
Common questions
- Who designed Franklin Gothic?
- Morris Fuller Benton, in 1902.
- What is Franklin Gothic used for?
- American newspapers, headlines, twentieth-century news. You will have seen it on Newspaper headlines throughout the twentieth century, Lots of book covers, Numerous US political campaigns.
Related pages
- Typefaces from the 1900s 1 here
- Akzidenz-Grotesk H. Berthold AG, 1896
- Johnston Edward Johnston, 1916
- Futura Paul Renner, 1927
- Gill Sans Eric Gill, 1928
- Helvetica Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann, 1957
- Univers Adrian Frutiger, 1957
- Optima Hermann Zapf, 1958
- Eurostile Aldo Novarese, 1962
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)