ARB 67 Modern Roman was designed by Alf Becker, Michael Adkins and published by The Fontry. ARB 67 Modern Roman includes 16 styles and family plan options. p > Hunting for a Roman typeface with major serifs and vintage shapes normally shows up some pretty typical and yawn-worthy outcomes. Unfortunately, one Roman serif tends to look like another. And after that you find yourself staring at this font style, a headliner face that takes its task (and serifs) really major. However stare too long and you'll discover yourself looking at lines and curves that aren't all that familiar. What is happening? Are we still in the new millenium? Naturally we are-- but this typeface isn't. It thinks its still 1937, and INDICATIONS of the Times magazine by ST Publications has actually simply launched it as the 67th alphabet by master sign painter, Alf R. Becker. However vint as it is, this face has actually been fighting the font style wars since 1999, and since 2009, it has a buddy now for those ongoing fights. Boosted by a tall simulacra of its requirement, wider self, ARB 67 lastly stands all set to engage all of those empty headlines and banners and signboards that simply cry out pleading for a typeface like this.

Beginning in January, 1932, Alf R. Becker of St. Louis Missouri, at the demand of then-editor E. Thomas Kelly, provided INDICATIONS of the Times publication's brand-new Art and Style section with an alphabet a month, a task at first forecasted to last just 2 years. Misjudging the popularity of the 'series,' it rather ran for 27 years, ending finally 2 months prior to Becker's death in 1959, for a grand overall of 320 alphabets, a nearly ideal, undisturbed run. In late 1941, simply 10 years after the very first alphabet was published, 100 of them were compiled and released in book form under the title, '100 Alphabets,' by Alf R. Becker.

As released in July 1937, this is the description that accompanied Becker's 67th alphabet, Modern Roman thick-and-Thin:

Modern Roman Thick-and-thin, Alf R. Becker's sixty-seventh alphabet in his SIGNS of the Times series, is an attractive, easy-to-read headline letterform, similar in some aspects to Spurred Egyptian Thick-and-Thin.

Many typeface designers have taken on transforming Becker's unbelievable achievement from paper to digital, and many claim to treat his deal with care and dignity. But the Fontry's Becker fonts remain the most traditionally accurate and practical treatments offered, arriving in 2 industry-satisfying variations: CAS (Computer-Aided Signmaking) and DTP (Desktop Publishing). And similar to all Fontry typefaces, the kerning is not optional-- it's exceptional-!!!

Font Family:
· ARB 67 Modern Roman JUL-37 DTP Normal
· ARB 67 Modern Roman JUL-37 DTP Normal Italic
· ARB 67 Modern Roman JUL-37 DTP Bold
· ARB 67 Modern Roman JUL-37 DTP Bold Italic
· ARB 67 Roman Tall JUL-37 DTP Normal
· ARB 67 Roman Tall JUL-37 DTP Normal Italic
· ARB 67 Roman Tall JUL-37 DTP Bold
· ARB 67 Roman Tall JUL-37 DTP Bold Italic
· ARB 67 Modern Roman JUL-37 CAS Normal
· ARB 67 Modern Roman JUL-37 CAS Normal Italic
· ARB 67 Modern Roman JUL-37 CAS Bold
· ARB 67 Modern Roman JUL-37 CAS Bold Italic
· ARB 67 Roman Tall JUL-37 CAS Normal
· ARB 67 Roman Tall JUL-37 CAS Normal Italic
· ARB 67 Roman Tall JUL-37 CAS Bold
· ARB 67 Roman Tall JUL-37 CAS Bold Italic

Tags: 1930s, roman, spur serif, thick & thin, wedge-serif