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Beton

Beton is a slab-serif typeface designed by Heinrich Jost and released originally by the Bauer Type Foundry from 1929 onwards, with most major styles released by 1931.

About Beton

Beton is a slab-serif typeface designed by Heinrich Jost and released originally by the Bauer Type Foundry from 1929 onwards, with most major styles released by 1931. "Beton" is German for concrete (originally from French), a choice of name suggesting its industrial aesthetic. Beton is a "geometric" slab serif, reflecting the style of German geometric sans-serifs (in particular Futura) which had attracted considerable attention, and adapting the design to the slab serif structure. Its structure is therefore quite strictly monoline. However, its letter 'a' is the conventional 'double-storey' 'a' used in most printing, unlike some of its competitors which reduce the letter to a circular single-storey 'a'. Beton and other similar designs were popular in printing during the 1930s.

From the Wikipedia article “Beton (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Beton in a book

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