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ARB 93 Steel Moderne Font

Publisher: The Fontry

ARB 93 Steel Moderne is a display screen and western font household. This typeface has thirty-two designs and was released by The Fontry.

Want a genuine Western font? From way back when? For an old-timey feel? Heck, pardner, those ain't huge old piece serifs yer lookin' at. Those are "bars," as in bars of steel. They might be a little rusty, however, having actually been around considering that 1939. That's when these branding-iron prepared letterforms first graced the pages of ST Publications' "INDICATIONS of the Times" magazine. This was the 93rd type treatment by master indication painter, Alf R. Becker. And while he had actually hoped the sign men would soften things up a bit by blunting the edges of all that steel, many have been left sharp and cut-ready. So view your fingers! And watch likewise for the Narrowe version of Moderne Steel. It's been pre-condensed to avoid those embarrassing stretch marks that arise from an improperly distorted design. And of course we did go on and blunt the edges a bit, so you would not injure yourself. That's why this one Becker typeface household maxes out at 32 tastes. That's a lot of bolding and blunting and italicizing going on there!

Beginning in January, 1932, Alf R. Becker of St. Louis Missouri, at the request of then-editor E. Thomas Kelly, provided "INDICATIONS of the Times" publication's new Art and Style area with an alphabet a month, a job at first predicted to last just 2 years. Misjuding the popularity of the "series," it instead ran for 27 years, ending finally two months before Becker's death in 1959, for a grand total of 320 alphabets, an almost best, continuous run. In late 1941, just 10 years after the first alphabet was published, 100 of those alphabets were put together and released in bookform under the title, "100 Alphabets," by Alf R. Becker.

As released in September, 1939, this is the description that accompanied Becker's 93rd alphabet, Steel Moderne:

Steel Moderne is Alf R. Becker's ninety-third alphabet in his almost-8-year-old series of alphabet art in INDICATIONS of the Times. This design can be used successfully in all lines of modern-day indication work. Top and bottom bars are additional heavy, with vertical lines half the density of the bars, and all edges are blunt.

Many font style designers have dealt with transforming Becker's amazing achievement from paper to digital, and lots of claim to treat his work with care and dignity. However the Fontry's Becker font styles remain the most traditionally accurate and feasible treatments available, arriving in two industry-satisfying versions: CAS (Computer-Aided Signmaking) and DTP (Desktop Publishing). And as with all Fontry font styles, the kerning is not optional—— it's exceptional-!!!

ARB 93 Steel Moderne SEP-39 is just among four font families in ARB Pak # 1. Purchase this font separately, or start collecting them all now and save cash on our special bundle pricing, because more Becker typefaces are on the way!