Century Schoolbook font family
Overview
The first Century was cut by Linn Boyd Benton working with T. L. De Vinne for Century magazine to replace the unsuitable face they had used previously. This was followed a few years later, at the turn of the century, by Century Expanded. It was Morris Fuller Benton, who made several other versions of Century, who also made several versions Schoolbook for ATF, starting in about 1919. The best known appeared in 1924. This face does the job it was meant to do very well. It is round, open, and sturdy, and although heavier in appearance than many other serif fonts, it comes near the top of the list of no-nonsense text fonts that will withstand a lot of punishment. Generations of children learned to read with this font.
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File name | Censcbk.ttf Schlbkb.ttf Schlbkbi.ttf Schlbki.ttf |
Styles & Weights | Century Schoolbook Century Schoolbook Bold Century Schoolbook Bold Italic Century Schoolbook Italic |
Designers | Morris Fuller Benton |
Copyright | Typeface © The Monotype Corporation plc. Data © The Monotype Corporation plc / Type Solutions Inc. 1990-91 All Rights Reserved. |
Font vendor | N/A |
Script Tags | N/A |
Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1257 Windows Baltic Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) 869 IBM Greek 866 MS-DOS Russian 865 MS-DOS Nordic 863 MS-DOS Canadian French 861 MS-DOS Icelandic 860 MS-DOS Portuguese 857 IBM Turkish 855 IBM Cyrillic; primarily Russian 852 Latin 2 775 MS-DOS Baltic 737 Greek; former 437 G 850 WE/Latin 1 437 US |
Fixed pitch | False |
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