Monotype Acquires Font Families By ‘Godfather Of Type’ David Berlow

Recently, font specialist Monotype announced it has acquired 39 of The Font Bureau’s type families, many of which were designed by legendary typeface “Godfather” David Berlow.

The Bureau, founded in 1989 in Boston, has been renowned for its editorial and brand typefaces, including custom fonts for world-famous institutions including The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Esquire Magazine, Apple Computer, Google Inc, and more.

Of the newly-acquired 39 typefaces, Monotype will now add notable names such as ‘Belizio’, ‘Bureau-Grot’, and ‘Poynter’ to its extensive library. ‘Belizio’, a digital remake of Aldo Novarese’s ‘Egizio’, was the impetus behind Rolling Stone magazine’s distinctive visual identity.

Bureau-Grot is a sans-serif font created by Berlow in 1989, while the Poynter series—made up of Poynter Gothic and Poynter Oldstyle—was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones and published by The Font Bureau in 1997 for use in the narrow columns of newspapers.

These new typefaces will be available to users on all of Monotype’s platforms in addition to over 40,000 other choices.

“Monotype is the natural home for these typefaces, many of which I personally designed. I am delighted to have my typeface families from The Font Bureau now sit alongside my earlier work from Linotype and Bitstream,” said David Berlow.

[via Monotype, images courtesy]