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Trade Gothic Next® font family
Designed by Akira Kobayashi in 2008 and Tom Grace in 2008 and Jackson Burke in 1948
Up to 17 Typefaces / 1 Value Packs
Supports at least 33 languages (Pro / OT CFF)
Available licenses for all styles:
Supports up to 74 languages.
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Supports up to 12 OpenType features.
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Trade Gothic Next is Akira Kobayashi's 2008 revision of Jackson Burke's 1948 design. Developed over many years, the original Trade Gothic was filled with many inconsistencies. Under the direction of Akira Kobayashi, Linotype's Type Director, the american type designer Tom Grace, a graduate of the MA Typeface Design in Reading, was commissioned to redesign, revise, and expand the Trade Gothic family. Kobayashi and Grace refined many details such as the terminals and stroke endings, symbols, and the spacing and kerning. Moreover, there are newly added compressed widths and heavy weights perfect for setting even more powerful headlines. The Regular weight has been beefed up making it stronger and more robust in text settings. Trade Gothic is a staple of the advertising and newspaper industries, and now Trade Gothic Next brings more features and better quality for today's astute typographers. In addition several weights are available as soft rounded versions.