Twentieth Century Poster™ Font Family

Twentieth Century Poster™ Regular (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

American typographer Sol Hess (born 1886, died 30. 1. 1953) created the fonts Twentieth Century™, Twentieth Century™ Classified and Twentieth Century™ Poster. These font families are part of the Monotype Library OpenType Edition.

Twentieth Century was designed and drawn by Sol Hess in the Lanston Monotype drawing office between 1936 and 1947. The first weights were added to the Monotype typeface library in 1959. Twentieth Century is based on geometric shapes which originated in Germany in the early 1920's and became an integral part of the Bauhaus movement of that time. Form and function became the key words, unnecessary decoration was scorned. This clean cut, sans serif with geometric shapes was most appropriate. The lighter weights of the Twentieth Century font family can be used for text setting; the Twentieth Century bold and condensed fonts are suitable for display in headlines and advertising. Commonly spelled 20th Century.