Font Designer: Dan Reynolds, 2006
Finally, Bank Gothic with lowercase! Morris Sans® is a revised and extended version of Bank Gothic, the ever-popular typeface created by Morris Fuller Benton in 1930. Building onto the initial squared capitals design, Dan Reynolds added an original lowercase, as well as several figure options:
1. tabular and proportional lining figures,
2. tabular and proportional old style figures,
3. and small cap figures, too!
Small caps, which have become
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Morris Fuller Benton – born 30. 11. 1872 in Milwaukee, USA, died 30. 6. 1948 in Morristown, USA – engineer, type designer.
After training as a mechanic and engineer, Benton jointed the ATF, where he became type designer and in-house designer with ATF.
Fonts: Benton developed over 200 alphabets, all of which were published by ATF, including Century roman (with Theodor Low de Vinne, 1885), Mariage (1901), Alternate Gothic (1903), Franklin Gothic (1903–12), Cheltenham® (1904), Clearface®
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