TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Mon Apr 15 05:27:42 EDT 2024
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John L. Bud Renshaw
ATF staff designer, b. 1924. Designer of News Gothic Bold, 1958, based on the 1908 original of Morris Fuller Benton. He also made the Spartan series and Franklin Gothic Wide. There was a disc ussion on the roots of Spartan on Typedrawers in 2021. Florian Hardwig suggests the following blurb: Started by anonymous Linotype staff members after Paul Renner [insert qualifiers about Futura having more than one parent as well], adopted and expanded by ATF staff members including but probably not limited to John L. Renshaw and Gerry Powell, and also more Linotype staff members. He provides more historical details: Renshaw contributed to the Spartan series, but giving him all credit for the design (or blame for the copy) doesn’t nail it. According to Mac McGrew, the series started at Mergenthaler Linotype with Sanserif 52 and Italic early in 1939, which were later that year offered as Spartan Black, alongside more weights. In 1941 ATF started to cut some of these typefaces for manual composition. Over the following dozen years or more, additional weights and widths were drawn by Bud Renshaw and Gerry Powell for ATF, and by Linotype staff designers. Renshaw didn't start the copy, nor did he come up with the name Spartan. He didn't even work for Linotype, the company that initiated it, and wasn't the only one at ATF to work on the adaptations and expansions. |
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