Some samples of the typeface can be found here at the Hoefler-and-Frere-Jones website, plus here are some interview with Frere-Jones from Typotheque and The Morning News. Gotham celebrates the attractive and unassuming. From these humble beginnings comes Gotham, a hard-working typeface for the ages.
"It doesn't show individual authorship," he said, "but it shows a character you wouldn't find anywhere else." Every designer has admired the no-nonsense lettering of the American vernacular, those letters of paint, plaster, neon, glass and steel that figure so prominently in the urban landscape. "It seems, in a way, that it's always been there."Īnother Pentagram partner, Michael Bierut, likened Gotham to the Manhattan street grid. "It seems like it's part of the larger urban environment," he said. Michael Gericke, a partner in the Pentagram studio, which designed the cornerstone with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the architects of the Freedom Tower, said Gotham "didn't look like something that was created yesterday and would be gone tomorrow." All Fonts All Font Styles Recently Added Fonts.
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We liked these comments about the typeface: Download Gotham Pro For Free, View Sample Text, Rating And More On. 60 font-size and typeface 58 foreign language requirements 567 GPA. It was developed by Tobias Frere-Jones at Hoefler Type Foundry, who didn't even know that the typeface had been used for the cornerstone until getting an email from a client and then seeing pictures of it on the Times website (which the article delights in reporting, we think). Gettysburg Emerging Writer Lectureship 128 Gotham Writers' Workshop 124 GPA.
Very cool article in the NY Times today about the Gotham typeface, which was inspired by simple sans-serif types seen everywhere in the city, and the young typeface was chosed for the cornerstone for the World Trade Center.
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