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Skyline Fonts
Skyline fonts are fonts that are ultra narrow or condensed in a style often seen in American magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. This group contains fonts such as Swifty (2011, Alex Sheldon, Match & Kerosene), Empire (1989-1994, David Berlow and Kelley Ehrgott-Milligan, Font Bureau), Spire (Ann Pomeroy, Group Type), LTC Spire (2005, Lanston), Corvinus Skyline (1991, Ann Pomeroy, Group Type), Niagara (1994, Tobias Frere-Jones, Font Bureau), and Manygo Serif (2012, Michel Troy). Font Bureau's Empire is a 7-style extension of the Empire type designed in 1937 by Morris Fuller Benton for Vogue, where it was used as a headline style. A year later, in 1938, Sol Hess created an ultra-narrow didone caps only family called Spire, which similar magazine titling applications. It was that typeface that was extended in digital form by Ann Pomeroy of Group Type and by Lanston in 2005. The typeface family Niagara by Tobias Frere-Jones revisits both styles. A separate duckling with its ultra large x-height is Corvinus Skyline, designed in 1934 by Imre Reiner. It was digitized in 1991 by Group Type. |
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file name: David Berlow Kelley Ehrgott Milligan Empire 1989 1994
file name: Ann Pomeroy Spire
file name: Ann Pomeroy Spire Monoline
file name: Group Type Corvinus Skyline
file name: Group Type Corvinus Skyline
file name: Imre Reiner Corvinus Skyline 1934 Group Type Version 1991
file name: Michel Troy Manygo Serif 2012
file name: Michel Troy Manygo Serif 2012b
file name: Michel Troy Manygo Serif 2012c
file name: Michel Troy Manygo Serif 2012i
file name: Alex Sheldon Swifty 2011
file name: Alex Sheldon Swifty 2011b
file name: Alex Sheldon Swifty Fill 2011
file name: Alex Sheldon Swifty Shadow 2011
file name: Sol Hess L T C Spire 1938 Lanston Version
file name: Tobias Frere Jones Niagara 1994d
file name: Tobias Frere Jones Niagara Engraved 1994
file name: Tobias Frere Jones Niagara Solid 1994
file name: Tobias Frere Jones Niagara Light Engraved 1994c
file name: Tobias Frere Jones Niagara 1994
file name: Tobias Frere Jones Niagara Light Engraved 1994
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