Bell Gothic™

from Linotype

Bell Gothic™ is a Linotype font family with 3 styles.

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Bell Gothic

Bell Gothic Light

Bell Gothic Bold

Bell Gothic Black

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Chauncey H. Griffith
Designed when: 1938
Design owned by: Linotype
Originally created by: Mergenthaler
MyFonts Keywords: bell, formal, grotesk, light, low-res, narrow, neo-grotesque, sans-serif

Bell Gothic

C.H. Griffith was commissioned by the American telephone company, Bell, to design a typeface which would be particularly suited to small, compressed sentences and inferior paper quality. The font was intended for use in the company’s telephone books. Griffith had already had experience with the conception of newsprint fonts and was interested in legibility issues. In 1922 Griffith created the Legibility Group, which contained particularly legible fonts predestined for newspapers. Bell Gothic has all the typical characteristics which optimize a font’s legibility.

The modern heir of Bell Gothic is Bell Centennial, designed by Matthew Carter in 1974 in celebration of the Bell Company’s 100th birthday.

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‘Bell Gothic’ is a trademark of Linotype GmbH which may be registered in certain jurisdictions

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