What is the New Lincoln Gothic BT font?

New Lincoln Gothic is an elegant sanserif, generous in width and x-height. There are twelve weights ranging from Hairline to UltraBold and an italic for each weight. At the stroke ends are gentle flares, and some of the round characters possess an interesting and distinctive asymmetry. The character set supports Central Europe, and there are three figure sets, extended fractions, superior and inferior numbers, and a few alternates, all accessible via OpenType features. More… Back in 1965, Thomas Lincoln had an idea for a new sanserif typeface, a homage of sorts, to ancient Roman artisans. The Trajan Column in Rome, erected in 113 AD, has an inscription that is considered to be the basis for western European lettering. Lincoln admired these beautiful letterforms and so, being inspired, he set out to design a new sanserif typeface based on the proportions and subtleties of the letters found in the Trajan Inscription. Lincoln accomplished what he set out to do by creating Lincoln Gothic. The typeface consisted only of capital letters. Lincoln intentionally omitted a lowercase to keep true his reference to the Trajan Inscription, which contains only magiscule specimens. The design won him the first Visual Graphics Corporation (VGC) National Typeface Competition in 1965. The legendary Herb Lubalin even used it to design a promotional poster! All this was back in the day when typositor film strips and photo type were all the rage in setting headlines. Fast forward now to the next millennium. Thomas Lincoln has had a long, illustrious career as a graphic designer. Still, he has one project that feels incomplete; Lincoln Gothic does not have a lowercase. It is the need to finish the design that drives Lincoln to resurrect his prize winning design and create its digital incarnation. Thus, New Lincoln Gothic was born. Lacking the original drawings, Lincoln had to locate some old typositor strips in order to get started. He had them scanned and imported the data into Freehand where he refined the shapes and sketched out a lowercase. He then imported that data into Fontographer, where he worked the glyphs again and refined the spacing, and started generating additional weights and italics. His enthusiasm went unchecked and he created 14 weights! It was about that time that Lincoln contacted Bitstream about publishing the family. Lincoln worked with Bitstream to narrow down the family (only to twelve weights), interpolate the various weights using three masters, and extend the character set to support CE and some alternate figure sets. Bitstream handled the hinting and all production details and built the final CFF OpenType fonts using FontLab Studio 5.

New Lincoln Gothic BT Font families

The New Lincoln Gothic BT includes the following font families:

• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Hairline
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Hairline Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Ultra Thin
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Ultra Thin Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Thin
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Thin Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Extra Light
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Extra Light Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Light
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Light Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Book
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Book Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Regular
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Medium
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Medium Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Semi Bold
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Semi Bold Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Bold
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Bold Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Extra Bold
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Extra Bold Italic
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Ultra Bold
• New Lincoln Gothic BT Std Ultra Bold Italic

New Lincoln Gothic BT Preview

Here is a preview of how New Lincoln Gothic BT will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.