Century Expanded
Century Expanded	$29.00
Century Expanded Italic
Century Expanded Italic	$29.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: December 3rd, 2007
Designed by: Linn Boyd Benton
Letterform design based on: Century Expanded
Contained in Categories: Legible, Transitional
Design owned by: Kingsley/ATF
MyFonts Keywords: 1900s, American, ball terminals, brochures, business text, catalogues, century, Disney, elegant, feminine, formal, headline, legible, magazine, modern style, neutral, newsletter, Scotch, sensible, serif, static, text, transitional, valuable

Century Expanded

Theodore Low DeVinne, publisher of Century Magazine, commissioned Linn Boyd Benton to design a new typeface for the magazine. The result, in 1894, was a roman type called Century Roman; a large x-height gave Century Roman the appearance of being condensed. Benton’s son, Morris Fuller Benton, redrew Century Roman for American Type Founders in 1900 so it would meet the standards of the Typographical Union. Benton’s Century Expanded is only slightly wider, but was advertised by DeVinne as allowing for an expansion in the number of characters that could fit in a line, “the expansion is upward, enabling one to get much matter in a small space.” Century Expanded is useful for text settings of magazines, books, newsletters, and brochures.

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