Font Benton Sans Otf
Ashlie Hagenson
This font family comprises 7 different styles, which are regular, thin, and black, and also has 2 amazing widths that are useful for any type of graphic design project. The font family has been extended in 2003 by Cyrus Highsmith with more extra widths, weights, and italics to the typeface family.
You can use this traditional font in any type of your design projects such as composing books, brand designs, eBook covers, presentations, social media purposes, logo designs, website designs, branding projects, product packaging, invitation playing cards designs, and many others.
This is a traditional sans-serif typeface and the designer of this good-looking typeface is the most notable designer Tobias Frere-Jones. He released this font for the first time for public use in 1995.
If the Benton family was offered from either the Font Bureau or the Carter & Cone font foundaries, it is no longer available through Adobe Fonts because those two foundaries decided to pull all of their fonts from Adobe Fonts. You will need to contact the owning font foundary to license them directly. Dov Isaacs posted an explanation here:
Yup same for me. I'm supposed to be going to print tomrrow and Benton Sans and Benton Extra Compressed are both gone. Why doesn't Adobe atleast notify if there are going to be massive font removals???
But, Adobe did notify us in early May that this was going to happen. There was a change to the terms of service agreement that you had to agree to (for me it was on May 8th) and I also got a message that the font I was using would be removed in June. As far as I am aware there are around 60 font families owned by Font Bureau that will disappear in June (presumably gone already).
Yay, I get to find a replacement font or fork over some cash to buy the font family and explain this new charge to my client (or eat it myself). Thankfully this is not part of a large branding effort.
Did you read this thread? Then you know already that this was NOT Adobe's choice but the choice of the owning foundaries. If you have an issue with the font being removed from Adobe Fonts, you need to talk to the foundary. Adobe has never made a guarantee that any fonts other than the ones they own will remain available forever.
Benton Sans is a digital typeface family begun by Tobias Frere-Jones in 1995, and expanded by Cyrus Highsmith of Font Bureau. It is based on the sans-serif typefaces designed for American Type Founders by Morris Fuller Benton around the beginning of the twentieth century in the industrial or grotesque style. It was a reworked version of Benton Gothic developed for various corporate customers, under Frere-Jones's guidance. In developing the typeface, Frere-Jones studied drawings of Morris Fuller Benton's 1908 typeface News Gothic at the Smithsonian Institution. The typeface began as a proprietary type, initially titled MSL Gothic, for Martha Stewart Living magazine and the website for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. As Benton Gothic, there are 7 weights from Thin to Black and only 2 widths.
When working for retail version of the font, the family was harmonized and given the new name called Benton Sans. In 2002-2003, Cyrus Highsmith added additional widths, weights, and italics to the typeface family, and the face was released for public use under the name Benton Sans. The extra weight and widths also served as optically-corrected replacements for Franklin Gothic, Alternate Gothic, Lightline Gothic.
Like News Gothic, Benton Sans follows the grotesque model. Distinct characters are the two-story lowercase a, the two-story lowercase g, and a blunt terminus at the apex of the lowercase t. The tail of the uppercase Q is distinct for being located completely outside the bowl. The character set is compact, and descenders are shallow. The typeface differs from other grotesque sans-serifs in its organic shapes and subtle transitions of stroke width, all contributing to a less severe, humanist tone of voice. Benton Sans has a wider, less compact character set than News Gothic. The typeface includes text figures (old style figures) providing a refinement not available in News Gothic.
Benton Sans font family originally consists of 26 fonts in 8 weights, and 4 widths for all but Extra Light and Thin families, which only include the widest width. On December 18, 2008, The Font Bureau Inc. announced the expansion of the font family. The expanded family has 128 fonts in 8 weights, and 4 widths for all weights, with complementary italic and small caps.[3]
On August 7, 2013, The Font Bureau Inc. announced the expansion of the Benton Sans font family, which included the addition of Wide width fonts to Benton Sans font family. In addition, small caps and figure styles, extended Latin character set, language support are included in all Benton Sans fonts.
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Out of all three of the fonts mentioned above, Source Sans Pro is the least lookalike, but still a great option when compared to other fonts. It does a great job matching 95% of all the letters in Benton Sans.
News Cycle is going to be a great alternative for Benton Sans. If News Cycle doesn't work, then Libre Franklin or Source Sans Pro would be great lookalikes. Overall, nothing is going to actually replace the font itself. However, if you are on a budget either one of the fonts above will be a good fit.
Benton Sans is a sans-serif font. It goes well with Georgia, HCO Tungsten, Benton Modern, Miller Headline, Caudex, Publico Banner, Benton Modern Display, Fedra sans, Helvetica Neue and Courier. If you're thinking about using Benton Sans then try 45px for headers. Give 16px a shot for content.
Benton Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface released in 1995 by Font Bureau. It was designed by Cyrus Highsmith, who drew inspiration from the 19th century typefaces of American type designer Morris Benton. With its open counters and slightly condensed letterforms, Benton Sans is highly legible and works well in both display and text settings. Its letterforms are characterized by a warm, friendly appearance, with round shapes and generous proportions that evoke a sense of comfort and familiarity.
The font is versatile and can be used in a variety of contexts. Its friendly, approachable character makes it a great fit for websites, magazines, and other publications that want to convey a sense of warmth and comfort. It also works well in branding and advertising projects, where its classic, timeless style can be used to evoke a sense of nostalgia and tradition.
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University Marketing and Communications has purchased a number of licenses for Benton Sans and GT Sectra for use by UT faculty and staff. Student employees who need access to these fonts, please have your UT faculty/staff supervisor make your font request. Request licenses for BentonSans or GT Sectra.
In order to be more expressive and better visualize the tone of your message, you might want to consider mixing, matching, or modifying fonts. You can pair brand fonts together, stylize a brand font in a creative way, or incorporate an expressive font into your execution.
I've recently upgraded to Storyline 3 and I'm experiencing an issue with garbled text. This happens in both preview mode and in the published version. The font used is Benton Sans, not a standard font, but this is my companies brand font and is fully installed. It was used in all our SL2 courses without issue. My colleagues have the same problem.
I saw this issue myself once before and had to uninstall the font, uninstall Storyline and then reinstall the font and Storyline again - but that was for a font type that should be included in Storyline. Could you try those steps and let me know how it works after that?
Thanks for the advice. To answer your questions, whilst editing there's no problem at all. Unfortunately, I work for a large organisation with a standard build for all laptops. Benton Sans is the only custom Opentype font installed, so I'm unable to test the issue with another one. All others are standard Truetype fonts found on any windows machine and so far they've all be fine.
If I publish the same course for CD (or from SL2), the output looks fine. However, in SL3 the Benton Sans font family is garbled when previewing, or when published for LMS (even when tested from a web server).
Here's an update. I had our technology people reinstall Storyline 3 and the font package but it didn't fix the problem. I've noticed how sometime when I open an old SL2 in SL3 a message appears to say Benton Sans is not installed on this computer, although this doesn't always happen. I will ask our technology team to investigate further and see if they have any suggestions. Unless there's anything else we can try?
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