Bentham
Bentham.zip · 59 KB · 2 files including OFL.txt
Typography profile
- Weights
- 400 only
- Italics
- None
- Scripts
- Latin
- Best for
- Period typography
- Names and short phrases
- Consider alternatives for
- Scripts other than Latin
- Languages beyond basic Latin
- Small text sizes
- Characteristics
- Small x-height
- Old-style figures
Styles
Bentham Regular 400 at 18px
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Bentham Regular 400 at 32px
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
BPOZZ Design Note
Its default digits are old-style, measured from the shipped file, and all ten share one advance width, so a column of figures aligns side to side while 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 still drop below the baseline. It has no lining-figure feature to switch to.
BPOZZ editorial guidance for designers.
About Bentham
- About
- A 'modern face' serif by Ben Weiner inspired by lettering on nineteenth-century maps, gravestones and cast-iron maker's plates, with bulging curves and ball terminals.
- Designer
- Ben Weiner
- Version
- 002.002
- Category
- Serif
- License
-
SIL Open Font License 1.1
You may use, embed, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial projects. The font files may not be sold on their own. Read the full license (OFL.txt).
This family declares a Reserved Font Name: if you modify the font, the modified version must use a different name.
Copyright (c) 2010, Ben Weiner (ben@readingtype.org.uk), with Reserved Font Name Bentham.
- Source
-
Google Fonts
Download files taken unmodified from the google/fonts repository. Added to Google Fonts 30 Nov 2010.
Upstream project: github.com/googlefonts/bentham.
- Available styles
- Regular 400
- Available formats
- TTF download and web preview
- Character sets
- Latin