Allium Medium

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Occupant Fonts

Allium

Allium Rounded Medium

Allium Rounded

Allium Text Medium

Allium Text

Amira Regular

Amira

Amira 2 Variable Roman

Amira 2

Antenna Condensed Bold

Antenna

Antenna RE Regular

Antenna RE

Antenna Serif Bold

Antenna Serif

Antenna Serif RE Regular

Antenna Serif RE

Font Bureau

Benton Sans

Cyrus is a letter drawer, teacher, author, and graphic artist. He teaches type design at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He wrote and illustrated the acclaimed primer Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals. In 2015, he received the Gerrit Noordzij Prize for extraordinary contributions to the fields of type design, typography, and type education. In 2017, he became Creative Director for Latin Type Development at Morisawa USA. He goes to bed very early.

Family: Allium Rounded

The cross between calligraphy and sans serif is rare, inhabiting territory between Hermann Zapf’s Optima, classical sans structure with a calligraphic spirit, and Warren Chappell’s Lydian, classical calligraphy without serifs. Cyrus Highsmith claims adventurous new ground with Amira, a letterform that pops from the page with an angled vitality. Amira both welcomes and surprises readers with bright new rhythms and texture. In 2023, Cem Eskinazi extended the character set and made Amira into a variable font.

Family: Antenna

In 1903, faced with the welter of sanserif typefaces offered by ATF, Morris Fuller Benton designed News Gothic, which became 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 and widths, offering performance well beyond the limits of the original; FB 1995-2012

As of July 1, 2024, Type Network can no longer sell licenses for Benton Sans. Below, you can find a list of fresh, high-quality alternates to Benton Sans. To learn about other options, <a href="/contact/">talk to us</a>.

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Cyrus Highsmith