What I learned from reading The Bentons: How an American Father and Son Changed the Printing Industry.
Morris Fuller Benton was the most secretive type designer in the world, and while having designed over 200 different typefaces, is not widely known. Join me in this conversation as we study the life, work, and influences of Morris Fuller Benton and his father, Linn Boyd.
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(2:24) Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name by Peter Pugh
(5:08) List of types designed by Morris
(6:41) Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson
(7:26) Introduction to Linn Boyd Benton (Father)
(13:32) Linn Boyd's personality
(18:21) Introduction to Morris Fuller Benton (Son)
(23:27) ATF merger of 1892
(24:05) Stanley Morison: His Typographic Achievement by James Moran
(25:23) Morris at Cornell
(26:20) Morris joins Linn Boyd at ATF
(28:55) ATF relocates from NYC to New Jersey
(29:20) Morris at home and in the community
(36:34) Morris Fuller Bentons professional career in type
(37:07) ATF's Free Typographic Library and Museum (compiled by Henry Lewis Bullen)
(38:36) Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis
(41:32) The type family
(48:07) Three parameters within which the type designer must work (by Herman Zapf)
(50:07) Franklin Gothic
(52:46) News Gothic
(55:31) Cheltenham type family
(59:46) Cloister Oldstyle (the gold mine of this book for me)
Typefaces designed by MFB:
Bank Gothic, Benton, Cheltenham, Clearface, Cloister, Franklin Gothic, Hobo, News Gothic, Schoolbook Oldstyle, and many more.
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