Benton Modern

Font Bureau · Richard Lipton & Cyrus Highsmith · 2003

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A transitional editorial serif companion to Benton Sans, with separate Text and Display optical families for newspapers and magazines.

About

Benton Modern extends the Benton family into the serif domain, drawing on Morris Fuller Benton's Century and Clearface models and adapting them for contemporary editorial use. Separate Text and Display versions are calibrated for their respective size ranges, making the system a complete editorial package alongside the sans companion.

Classification

Transitional serif drawing on Morris Fuller Benton's Century and Clearface work; designed for editorial use at text and display sizes

Weights

RegularMediumBoldExtraBold

Optical sizes and widths

TextDisplay

Family

Benton Modern DisplayBenton Modern Text

Languages

Latin