Rockwell (typeface)

Rockwell is a serif font from the Font class slab serif. The font was commissioned by the then Superintendent Frank Hinman Pierpont in 1934 at the company Monotype and proved to be one of the most successful of the 20th century slab serif.

The Rockwell was, for example, in the 1980s for the body text in the PM Magazine and used in the annual editions of the Guinness Book of World Records.

Models

Similarly, the Bauersche by the foundry, Frankfurt am Main, in 1930, cast in seven sections Font Family concrete, which was based on designs by Heinrich Jost.

Derivatives

Developed by Herb Lubalin ITC Lubalin Graph is a Egyptienneversion the ITC Avant Garde, similar to the Rockwell.