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| Category | Sans-serif |
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| Designer(s) | Roger Roberson |
| Date released | 1956 |
Letter Gothic is a monospaced sans-serif typeface. It was created between 1956 and 1962 by Roger Roberson for IBM in their Lexington, Kentucky, plant, and was inspired by the original drawings for Optima. It was initially intended to be used in IBM's Selectric typewriters. It is readable and is recommended for technical documentation and for sheets including columnar data.
Gayaneh Bagdasaryan designed a proportional font called New Letter Gothic, based on Letter Gothic, for ParaType.
Letter Gothic was included in Windows 95. It was replaced by Andalé Mono in Windows 98 and in 2001, Windows XP replaced it with Lucida Console.
References
- Clair, Kate (20 June 2012). A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques and Artistry (2 ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. p. 311. ISBN 978-0471696902. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
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