Ocean Sans - It’s uncommon for a sans serif to have relatively high contrast between thick and thin strokes, but that’s exactly what designer Chong Wah hoped to achieve with his Ocean Sans® design. “The most important criterion in my mind was the need for an obvious contrast between the stroke weights to achieve a fresher and more modern design,” he explains.

Bembo - During the 1920s the English Monotype company, under the direction of Stanley Morison, embarked upon a program that was the most ambitious of any composing machine manufacturer to date: the re-cutting of numerous historic typefaces. From this enlightened undertaking came such revivals as the Bodoni, Monotype Garamond™, Poliphilus®, Monotype Baskerville®, Fournier™, and Bembo® designs.

Dante - The Dante® typeface was first created in metal type in the mid-1950s. Unlike later typesetting technologies, metal type made an actual impression into the paper during printing. In other words, Dante was originally a typeface that was intended to be impressed into paper - not onto it.

Gill Sans - Were it not for Stanley Morison, the Gill Sans® design would never have seen printer’s ink. During the early twentieth century, Morison’s commanding personality, lofty scholarship, and control over which fonts were developed at Monotype made him one of the most powerful forces in modern typeface development.

Scripps College Old Style - The story of the Scripps College Old Style™ design is a heartwarming and inspiring chronicle about a young librarian, a handful of students, a wealthy grandmother, a dedicated educator - and two eminent American type designers.