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French King Francis I commissions Claude Garamond to develop a Greek typeface for a book series.
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In 1734, William Calson issued the typeface which included straighter serifs and greater contrasts between major and minor strokes.
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In 1780 Firmin Didiot and Giambattista Bodoni of Italy developed the First Modern Romans.
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Fette Fraktur is a blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer (1802–1867) in 1850.
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Franklin Gothic and its related faces are realist sans-serif typefaces originated by Morris Fuller Benton (1872–1948) in 1902.
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Cooper Black is a heavily weighted, display serif typeface designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1921 and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922.
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Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner.
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Gill Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards.
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Rockwell is a slab serif typeface designed by the Monotype Corporation and released in 1934.
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Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Eduard Hoffmann.
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Bell Centennial is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter in the period 1975–78.
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Avenir is a proportional geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988 and released by Linotype GmbH, now a subsidiary of Monotype Corporation.
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Trajan is an old style serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe.
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FF Meta is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann and released in 1991 through his FontFont library.
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Georgia is a serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Tom Rickner for the Microsoft Corporation.
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Comic Sans MS, commonly referred to as Comic Sans, is a sans-serif casual script typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation.
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Zapfino is a calligraphic typeface designed for Linotype by typeface designer Hermann Zapf in 1998.
