Type Trading Cards

Type Trading Cards are a new resource featuring important typeface designs from the Monotype and ITC typeface libraries. A set of two cards will be published every month. The cards are available as downloadable PDF files and can be printed on any color printer. The cards have also been formatted to the parameters of Avery® Ink Jet Postcard sheets. The Avery sheets are heavyweight stock, fine perforated and work on both ink jet and laser printers.

ITC Clearface/ITC Resavska – ITC Clearface and Resavska are separated by almost 100 years – yet both have the same design goals. Click here to add them to your collection.

Century Schoolbook/Columbus – Century Schoolbook and Columbus, two typefaces influenced by book design, are the newest trading cards available from Fonts.com. Click here to add them to your collection.

ITC Bookman/ITC Tabula – ITC Bookman and Tabula, a modern revival of a 19th century serif typestyle and a highly legible sans, are the newest trading cards available from Fonts.com. Click here to add them to your collection.

Albertina/News Gothic – Albertina and News Gothic, a serif typestyle with calligraphic overtones and the remarkably legible News Gothic, are the newest trading cards available from Fonts.com. Click here to add them to your collection

Cheltenham/Tactile – ITC Cheltenham and ITC Tactile, one has been called “homely” the other “quirky,” both are distinctive and remarkably versatile. Click here to learn more and add their trading cards to your collection.

Mentor/Neo – Mentor and Neo Sans, a new serif typestyle based on tradition and an ultra modern sans, are the newest trading cards available from Fonts.com. Click here to add them to your collection.

ITC Bauhaus/ITC Avant Garde Gothic – ITC Bauhaus and ITC Avant Garde Gothic are both watershed typeface designs – and are the newest trading cards available from Fonts.com. Click here to add them to your collection.

ITC Novarese/ITC Highlander - One family with an odd italic the other’s name influenced by rock music – both great additions to your type trading card collection. Click here to add them to your collection.

Times New Roman/Albertus - Times New Roman and Albertus, a Plantin remake and an inscriptual roman, are the newest trading cards available from Fonts.com. Click here to add them to your collection.

ITC Galliard/ITC Serif Gothic – One quality of a true classic has to be endurance. This virtue appears in spades in the tale of ITC Galliard, which had its origins in a sixteenth-century design by Robert Granjon. A classic of another sort is ITC Serif Gothic. Click here to add them to your collection.

Garth Graphic/Mundo Sans – Garth Graphic and Mundo Sans, a classic roman and a Humanistic sans are the newest addtions to the Fonts.com trading card collection. Click here to add them to yours.

ITC Benguiat & Friz Quadrata – Two new Type Trading Cards: Friz Quadrata and ITC Benguiat; an award winner and a typeface that overcame an initial rejection. Click here for two new additions to your trading card collection.

Felbridge & Sabon – Sabon and Felbridge, a classic serif typestyle and up-to-the-minute sans, are the newest trading cards available from Fonts.com. Add them to your collection today!

ITC Fenice/ITC Mixage – ITC Fenice is a neoclassical design in the tradition of Didot and Bodoni, while ITC Mixage is a sans serif in the tradition of Optima and Pascal.

ITC Avant Garde Gothic/ITC Newtext – Two new typefaces to add to your trading card collection: ITC Avant Garde Gothic and ITC Newtext. These geometric sans and engravers serif designs are proven collectibles from the ITC type library.

Baskerville/Linex Sans – Two new Type Trading Cards: the sprightly Linex Sans and the sophisticated Baskerville. While they are very different designs, both are excellent graphic communicators.

Scene/Rockwell – Sebastian Lester spent two years designing Scene. The Rockwell family, first issued in 1933, was Monotype’s answer to the slab-serif typographic style.

Centaur/Ocean Sans – Centaur was originally designed in 1914, for the New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Ocean Sans was designed to be simple, yet highly distinctive sans serif typeface.

Élan/American Typewriter – ITC Élan is a design that is not only a mainstay of graphic design it also started a lifetime friendship between two masters of modern typography. Designed when IBM was as well known for typewriters as computers, ITC American Typewriter is still has a fresh and inviting communications tool.

Perpetua/Haarlemmer – Perpetua was to be the first original typeface in Stanley Morison’s plan for the Monotype type library. Haarlemmer is a recreation of a never-produced Jan Van Krimpen typeface.

Franklin Gothic/Charter – Franklin Gothic was originally drawn by Morris Fuller Benton in 1902. Charter follows traditional 18th century Roman types, but with some very untraditional traits of its own.

Dante/Rotis Sans – Dante was Giovanni Mardersteig’s last and his most successful design. Rotis is named after a converted mill site southwest of Munich, where a small design group worked several years developing the typeface family.

Stone Sans/Korinna – ITC Stone Sans is an extended family that satisfies a broad range of users and address a multitude of graphic problems. ITC Korinna has often been labeled as a “workhorse” typeface.

Truesdell/Stellar – Based on roman character proportions, Stellar began in the late 1920s was revived in the 1990s. Truesdell began in 1930 and first used for an article in a quarterly journal for book collectors.

Weidemann/Goudy Sans – ITC Weidemann is slightly condensed making it perfect when space is at a premium. It features a tall x-height and bracketed serifs, which aid readability. While most san serifs tend to have a quiet, conservative, structure, ITC Goudy Sans is friendly – almost playful.

Cachet/Joanna – Cachet, features curved strokes have an almost calligraphic, spontaneity. David Farey, the face’s designer, also paid special attention to the places where character strokes joined and to stroke terminals. Joanna has been called the most engaging of Eric Gill’s typefaces. It is fitting that the first use of the font was to set Gill’s own “Essay on Typography.”

ITC Berkeley/ITC Conduit – ITC Berkeley Old Style, by Frederick Goudy, is based on his University of California Old Style font. It carries the flavor and dynamics of the original University of California Old Style font without being a slavish copy. Conduit, by Mark van Bronkhorst, is loosley based on parking lot signs. Unlike most typefaces, where each letter is carefully rendered, ITC Conduit was constructed from a set of character parts: straight strokes and round corners.

Bembo/Gill Sans – Originating in 15th and 16th century Venice, Bembo was originally designed to set the works of Italian scholar Pietro Bembo. The overall design is lighter and more harmonious in weight than earlier romans from that period. Although designed much later, Gill Sans characters are also based on classic roman letterforms, and as such are remarkably legible. With more pronounced contrast in stroke widths than most serifless fonts, Gill Sans is truly appealing to the eye.