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Hurricane force
COMPRESSED LIGHT
SUNSPOTS
CONDENSED BLACK
Rescue Service
COMPRESSED MEDIUM
In 1903, faced with the welter of sans oered by ATF, Morris Fuller Benton designed News Gothic, a 20th
century standard. In 1995 Tobias Frere-Jones studied drawings in the Smithsonian and started a redesign. Cyrus
Highsmith reviewed News Gothic, and with the Font Bureau studio expanded it into Benton Sans, a far reaching
new series, with matched weights, widths and performance well beyond the the limits of the original; fb 1995-2003
26 STYLES: LIGHT, BOOK, REGULAR, MEDIUM, BOLD, AND BLACK IN EXTRA COMPRESSED, COMPRESSED, CONDENSED, AND
NORMAL WIDTHS; THIN AND EXTRA LIGHT IN NORMAL WIDTH
BENTON SANS
BENTON SANS
NORMAL
CONDENSED
BLACK
BOLD
BOLD
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
REGULAR
REGULAR
BOOK
BOOK
LIGHT
LIGHT
EXTRA LIGHT
THIN
COMPRESSED
EXTRA COMPRESSED
BLACK
BLACK
BOLD
BOLD
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
REGULAR
REGULAR
BOOK
BOOK
LIGHT
LIGHT
ALL WIDTHS
CONDENSED BLACK
COMPRESSED BLACK