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Bank Gothic

by Bitstream
Individual Styles from $29.99 USD
Complete family of 2 fonts: $55.99 USD
The Bank Gothic Font Family was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and published by Bitstream. Bank Gothic contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Bank Gothic Complete Family

2 fonts

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Per Style:

$27.99 USD

Pack of 2 styles:

$55.99 USD

About the family


Bank Gothic was designed in 1930 by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders (ATF). The original metal typeface was a capitals-only design, in light, medium, and bold weights. The range of sizes cast allowed smaller versions to be used as small capitals alongside larger sizes. Bank Gothic became a standard design of photo typesetting, with versions offered by virtually every font provider. Bitstream added small caps to its digital version of the design.

The first digital versions of Bank Gothic were often used to brand military aesthetics and science fiction entertainment. The design is now finding new life as gaming fonts and stream overlay typography. Its bold, angular forms also translate seamlessly into esports team branding, where impact, clarity, and digital-native energy are essential.

In many ways, Bank Gothic has become a visual emblem of endurance, innovation, and digital dominance.

Designers: Morris Fuller Benton

Publisher: Bitstream

Foundry: Bitstream

Original Foundry: ATF

Design Owner: Bitstream

MyFonts debut: Jan 1, 2000

Bank Gothic

About Bitstream

Bitstream is known among type enthusiasts and professionals alike as being one of the companies that lead the way towards the democratization of type. For centuries, the type world had been the exclusive domain of skilled typographers who worked large, cumbersome presses. With the birth of digital type though, came a revolution in the industry that enabled Bitstream, one of the first digital type foundries, to help grow the desktop publishing industry. The company’s founders shared a vision in which desktop publishing and digital type would open up doors and allow for the access of previously exclusive typefaces to a broader public audience. Eventually, this idea of opening up the type market led to the development of fonts like Amerigo and New Lincoln Gothic; designs that played huge roles in the launching, and eventual success, of desktop publishing. With best-selling typefaces like Futura in its line up, this library made an enormous impact on the type industry and helped to form it into what it is today.

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