Rockwell (font)
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| font | Rockwell |
| category | Serif |
| Font classification | Serif linear antiqua |
| Type foundry | Monotype |
| Creation | 1934 |
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Rockwell is a font with serifs from Scripture class Egyptienne . The typeface was commissioned by the then manager Frank Hinman Pierpont in 1934 for the Monotype company and proved to be one of the most successful Egyptienne typefaces of the 20th century.
The Rockwell was z. It was used, for example, in the 1980s for the ÖKO-TEST magazine , for the running text in PM magazine and in the annual issues of the Guinness Book of Records .
role models
The Beton font family , which was cast in seven weights from 1930 onwards by the Bauerschen Gießerei, Frankfurt am Main , based on designs by Heinrich Jost, is similar .
Derivatives
The ITC Lubalin Graph developed by Herb Lubalin is an Egyptian version of the ITC Avant Garde , which is similar to the Rockwell; it has a little fewer serifs (e.g. no foot serif in 7, only a left-facing serif in A) and a few other capital letters (e.g. G and R). The ITC Avant Garde Gothic corresponds roughly to a sans serif variant of the ITC Lubalin Graph and the Rockwell.
Glypha is also similar to Rockwell , in which additional serifs appear (e.g. for G and the middle bars of E and F), but other serifs are missing (e.g. for A).
Web links
- Heinrich Jost at the Klingspor Museum PDF file, 64 kB
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christof Gassner (ed.): '' Everyday Ecology Design '', Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, 1994, ISBN 3-87439-308-9