History

Fonteez History Tee

Fonteez is proud to present the Fonteez History Tee! Printed on high quality 6.1oz Hanes Beefy Tees, our designs display each typeface's historical information such as style, type, year of creation and creator. As with all Fonteez designs, each shirt is available in Black, Orange and White with your choice of font faces from Bodoni to Helvetica. Buy your favorite or as a gift for you favorite designer!

Bodoni

First designed by Giambattista Bodoni in 1790, Bodoni's influence followed the ideas of Baskerville by using a slightly condensed upper case mixed with increased stroke contrast, but taking these properties to their logical extremes. The typeface has an overall geometric construction and extreme contrast between thin and thick strokes.

Copperplate Gothic

Designed in 1901 by Frederic Goudy, Copperplate Gothic was released by American Type Founders. The face has small glyphic serifs that enhance the effect of the snubbed terminus of horizontal and vertical strokes. Copperplate combines an assortment of influences from the wide horizontal axis typical of victorian types to the glyph style of stone carvings.

Friz Quadrata

This typeface is the work of several collaborators over a span of time. Originally designed by Ernst Friz in the mid 1960's it mades its first international appearance with the release of Visual Graphics Corporations. Later, Victor Caruso added a bold weight variant through an arrangement between VGC and ITC. In 1992, a French designer, Thierry Puyfoulhoux designed an italic weight for both the bold and original versions.

Garamond

Described as one of the most legible typefaces of the serif family, Garamond conveys both consistency and fluidity in its letterforms. Named for the punch-cutter Claude Garamond, most of the typefaces named after him are actually more closely related to Jean Jannon, a French printer and punch-cutter that issued a specimen of type that had similar design characteristics in 1621, sixty years after Garamond's death.

Helvetica

Originally called Die Neue Haas Grotesk, Helvetica was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann at the Hass type foundry. They set out to design a new san-serif face that could replace Akzidenz-Grotesk for the Swiss market. Based on Schelter-Grotesk, they aimed to create a neutral typeface that had both clarity, no inherent meaning and could be used in a wide variety of signage. Haas' German parent company Stempel decided to change the name to Helvetica, the Latin name for Switzerland, in 1960 to make it more marketable to a wider international audience. Helvetica is one of the most popular and recognizable typefaces to this day.