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Bentham is inspired by the lettering of nineteenth-century maps, gravestones and the maker’s plates of cast-iron machinery.
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It is characterized by expressive, flowing, and bulging curves, mannered awkwardness, and the bobbles on the terminals of its characters.
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The ‘modern face’ type genre is the typographical equivalent, and it can be found in books printed throughout the nineteenth century.
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This genre survived in educational textbooks produced throughout the twentieth century, and is preserved in computer science as the style which Donald Knuth adopted for his <a href="http://www.tug.org/">T<sub>E</sub>X typesetting system</a>.
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Bentham is a half-way design;
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true neither to the type produced during the nineteenth century, nor to the letterforms of cartographers, stonecutters, or engravers.
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Really it is an examination of the characteristics that these letters share, colored by Ben's approach to type drawing.
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