Sentence examples for national typeface from inspiring English sources
There, Gothic type was accepted almost as a national typeface until 1940, when its discontinuance was ordered.
America never had a truly national design style, like Germany, or a national typeface, like England, but the W.P.A. posters came close to imposing an aesthetic — an amalgam of modernistic, classical and even frontier typefaces and flat, sometimes abstract but mostly representational artwork (no photographs were used).
This notion of economy set the modern approach apart from the German black-letter tradition, but Tschichold went further in upsetting the status quo: "National typefaces (Fraktur, Textura, Old Slavonic) are excluded as generally incomprehensible and as leftovers from history".
(Thirty years ago, before the advent of computer typography, national fonts often stayed within national borders. Gill Sans, a utilitarian English typeface, was designed in 1928 by Eric Gill along the lines of that used in the London Underground.) With so many parallels in their adolescence, it seems inevitable that Mr. Hoefler and Mr. Frere-Jones would become business partners.
He had begun early to imitate Disney figures and draw bombers taking off, and joined Drawing & Tracing, a firm offering these services to engineering companies, before undertaking national service (1950-52), where he made models and painted signs in Gill Sans, a typeface designed by Gill.
(The typeface is Futura).
Firmin designed the Didot typeface.
What constitutes a flawed typeface?
