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In essence this could be related, however, Franklin Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton (1872–1948) in 1902. The typeface is one of over 200 typefaces designed by Benton. There is an assumption that this typeface was named after Benjamin Franklin. “Gothic” is an increasingly archaic term meaning sans-serif, which is found primarily in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The larger family, including condensed and extra condensed, was designed and released over the period of 1902–1912. Franklin Gothic was originally designed as a typeface with a single weight and only two variations in width. Franklin Gothic has been used in many advertisements and headlines in newspapers. The typeface continues to maintain a high profile appearing in a variety of media from books to billboards. Franklin Gothic has an extra bold weight with a combination of subtle irregularities, tapering of strokes near junctions, in its roman form. Franklin Gothic has several widths and weights including Franklin Gothic book, medium, demi, heavy, condensed, and extra condensed. Victor Caruso drew the multi-weight family for the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1980. Caruso’s redrawing of Franklin Gothic for ITC consist of a slightly enlarged x-height and a moderately condensed lowercase alphabet. Other characteristics of this typeface consist of organic features that distinguish it from the geometric sans serifs.
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It's impossible to say, because digital versions of Franklin Gothic fonts have been produced by many foundries, such as URW (as URW Franklin Gothic), International Typeface Corporation (as ITC Franklin Gothic, ITC Franklin), Adobe (as Franklin Gothic, Franklin Gothic Std), Monotype Imaging (as Monotype Franklin Gothic).
Franklin Gothic that are shipped with Microsoft products are based on ITC Franklin Gothic.
Franklin Gothic version 1 is distributed with Microsoft Office since Office 97 SR1a. Distributed fonts include Book, Book Italic, Demi, Demi Cond, Demi Italic, Heavy, Heavy Italic, Medium, Medium Cond, Medium Italic. Version 2 of the fonts are shipped with Microsoft Office 2003. Version 2 of Franklin Gothic Book, Book Italic, Demi, Demi Italic, Medium Cond are found in Microsoft Works 2002. Windows XP includes Franklin Gothic Medium and Franklin Gothic Medium Italic version 2.20. Windows Vista include version 5 of the fonts.You see?
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