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Tower
Tower was a slab serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders and based upon his earlier design for Stymie, but with straight sides to the round letters emphasizing the vertical appearance.
About Tower
Tower was a slab serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders and based upon his earlier design for Stymie, but with straight sides to the round letters emphasizing the vertical appearance. Tower Italic was designed but not cast. In 1936, Tower Bold was started by the same designer, but was instead made into Stymie Bold Condensed.
From the Wikipedia article “Tower (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Tower in a book
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Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q7829621 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).