![]() Monotype Grotesque was somewhat overshadowed from the late 1920s due to the arrival of new sans-serifs such as Kabel, Futura and Gill Sans, also by Monotype. Early fonts have a double-storey 'g' following British tradition and 215 and 216 a single-storey 'g' on the German model. Uppercase characters are of near equal width, the G has a spur in some weights, and the M in the non-condensed weights is square. Monotype Grotesque has standard characteristics of the 'industrial' sans-serifs of the period. Its name descends from William Thorowgood's 1832 face titled "Grotesque." ![]() Berthold AG foundry, which is according to Indra Kupferschmid a Venus clone. The inspiration for Monotype Grotesque 215 and 216 has been described as the popular ' Venus' family from the Bauer Type Foundry or 'Ideal', from the H. Monotype executive Dan Rhatigan has commented that it "was never really conceived as a family in the first place, so consistency wasn't a goal." Like many early sans-serif designs, it is strongly irregular, with designs created at different times that are adapted to suit each width and style at the expense of consistency. Monotype offered a sans-serif capital alphabet as its fourth typeface cut others were developed later. Monotype Grotesque is a large family of fonts, including very bold, condensed and extended designs, created at different times. The family was popular in British trade printing, especially its series 215 and 216 regular and bold weights from around 1926, which have been credited to its American-born engineering manager Frank Hinman Pierpont. Like many early sans-serifs, it forms a sprawling family designed at different times. It belongs to the grotesque or industrial genre of early sans-serif designs. Monotype Grotesque is a family of sans-serif typefaces released by the Monotype Corporation for its hot metal typesetting system.
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