license: OFL
payment: POOL
url: http://www.readingtype.org.uk
category: serif
subsets: menu,latin

family: Bentham

designer: Ben Weiner

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description: <p>I like the lettering on \
  nineteenth-century maps, on gravestones and on \
  the maker’s plates of cast-iron machinery. It \
  is characterised by expressive flowing and \
  bulging curves, mannered awkwardness and the \
  bobbles on the terminals of its characters. \
  The letterform conventionally called ‘modern \
  face’ is the typographical equivalent, and it \
  can be found in books printed throughout the \
  nineteenth century. Its descendants survived \
  into educational textbooks produced into the \
  late twentieth century, and it is preserved \
  in computer science as the style which Donald \
  Knuth adopted for his \
  <a href="http://www.tug.org/">T<sub>E</sub>X \
  typesetting system</a>.</p> \
  <p>Bentham is a half-way design; it’s true \
  neither to the type produced during the \
  nineteenth century, nor to the letterforms \
  of cartographers, stonecutters, or engravers. \
  It’s really a sort of examination of the \
  characteristics these letters share, coloured \
  by <a href="http://readingtype.org.uk/texts/drawing.html">my \
  approach to type drawing</a>.</p> \
  <p>I plan a companion italic for Bentham. \
  A bold would be worthwhile: the first serious \
  attempts at making ‘matching’ bolder weights \
  of type date back to the era in which the \
  modern style dominated the typecase.</p>

conversion: 2010-11-27 DC Converted from OTF to TTF using FontForge, converting to 1024em and autohinting
