Bank Gothic

Bank Gothic
Category	Sans-serif
Classification	Geometric
Designer(s)	Morris Fuller Benton
Foundry	American Type Founders
Date created	1930–1933
Re-issuing foundries	Bitstream; FontHaus; Linotype;

Bank Gothic is a rectilinear geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders and released in 1930.^[1] The design has become popular from the late twentieth century to suggest a science-fiction, military, corporate, or sports aesthetic.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Bank Gothic is an exploration of geometric forms, and is contemporary with the rectilinear slab serif typeface City by Georg Trump (Gothic in this context means "sans-serif", at the time a common usage, rather than blackletter).^[6] The typeface also bears comparison with late-nineteenth-century engraving faces such as Copperplate Gothic, which were popular for business card and corporate stationery printing. The design was initially issued in small print sizes to allow this use.^[2]

^ ^a ^b McGrew, Mac (1993). American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century (Second, revised ed.). pp. 22–3, 258–259. ISBN 0-938768-34-4.
^ ^a ^b Dave Addey (11 December 2018). "Stephen Coles". Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies. ABRAMS. pp. 46–51. ISBN 978-1-68335-334-8.
^ Ziegenhagen, David (2017). "'The future isn't written in stone' (but in Bank Gothic): Genretheoretische Überlegungen zum typografischen Design von Science-Fiction-Filmen". FFK Journal (2): 325–343. doi:10.25969/mediarep/2926.
^ Reynolds, Dan (10 April 2008). "This Typeface Will Break Your Heart". TypeOff. Retrieved 4 August 2019. Who knows when this first started showing up on film and television? The earliest back I can remember is the poster for the 1997 sci-fi/horror flick Event Horizon
^ Tselentis, Jason (August 28, 2017). "Typodermic's Raymond Larabie Talks Type, Technology & Science Fiction". How. Archived from the original on August 10, 2018. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
^ Mosley, James (1999). The Nymph and the Grot: the Revival of the Sanserif Letter. London: Friends of the St Bride Printing Library. ISBN 9780953520107.

[McGrew-1] McGrew, Mac (1993). American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century (Second, revised ed.). pp. 22–3, 258–259. ISBN 0-938768-34-4.

[Addey2018-2] Dave Addey (11 December 2018). "Stephen Coles". Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies. ABRAMS. pp. 46–51. ISBN 978-1-68335-334-8.

[Ziegenhagen-3] Ziegenhagen, David (2017). "'The future isn't written in stone' (but in Bank Gothic): Genretheoretische Überlegungen zum typografischen Design von Science-Fiction-Filmen". FFK Journal (2): 325–343. doi:10.25969/mediarep/2926.

[Reynolds_Break_Your_Heart-4] Reynolds, Dan (10 April 2008). "This Typeface Will Break Your Heart". TypeOff. Retrieved 4 August 2019. Who knows when this first started showing up on film and television? The earliest back I can remember is the poster for the 1997 sci-fi/horror flick Event Horizon

[5] Tselentis, Jason (August 28, 2017). "Typodermic's Raymond Larabie Talks Type, Technology & Science Fiction". How. Archived from the original on August 10, 2018. Retrieved October 29, 2017.

[The_nymph_and_the_grot:_the_revival_of_the_sanserif_letter-6] Mosley, James (1999). The Nymph and the Grot: the Revival of the Sanserif Letter. London: Friends of the St Bride Printing Library. ISBN 9780953520107.

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