Cheltenham (typeface)

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Typeface	Cheltenham
Category	Serif
Designer(s)	Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Ingalls Kimball Morris Fuller Benton Tony Stan
Foundry	American Type Founders International Typeface Corporation Carter & Cone Type Inc.
Date released	1896

Cheltenham is an old style serif typeface, designed in 1896 by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Ingalls Kimball for use by a New York publisher, the Cheltenham Press.

Cheltenham is not based on a single historical model, and shows influences of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Bold condensed and bold condensed italic variants are used for headlines by The New York Times. A new version with multiple weights and widths was designed by Tony Stan for the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1975. The ITC version follows their formulary program of increased x-height, multiple weights from light to ultra, and multiple widths.

[edit] Prominent usage

In 2003 the New York Times introduced a more unfied Cheltenham typographic palette for its headline use in the print edition. Previously Cheltenham was only one of several types including a sans-serif in a Victorian looking mix of headline faces. Tom Bodkin, assistant managing editor and design director of the Times, engaged typeface designer Matthew Carter to create multiple weights and a heavily condensed width of Cheltenham to replace most of the Latin Extra Condensed face in use, as well as Bookman, and a variant of Century Bold. ^[1]

IDG's ...for Dummies series of how-to books are set in ITC Cheltenham.

[edit] Bibliography

^ By The New York Times. "A Face Lift for The Times, Typographically, That Is'" The New York Times, October 21, 2003), retrieved March 15, 2007.

Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN 0-300-10073-6.
Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
Lawson, Alexander S., Anatomy of a Typeface. Godine: 1990. ISBN 978-0879233334.
Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.