Type Connection

Type Connection In the battle of moderns, ITC Century and Futura juxtapose ornament and sleek lines. Century’s buoyant intricacies highlight Futura’s elemental purities, while Futura’s limitless ascenders emphasize Century’s predominant x-height. Their lowercase letters and uppercase G couldn’t be more different from each other, so their vertical axis and roundness introduce cohesion. With the right difference in scale, either face could steal the stage. itc century (Tony Stan, 1975), a modern serif revival, derives from the original Century, Linn Boyd Benton’s custom typeface for Century magazine (1896), as well as Morris Fuller Benton’s Century Expanded and Century Schoolbook. The face is extremely legible thanks to Fuller Benton’s research during Schoolbook’s development, thus the Supreme Court of the United States requires that every booklet-format document be typeset in the family. futura [Paul Renner (1927), Edwin W.