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Bathysphere

Bathysphere™

by Kickingbird
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Bathysphere Font Family was designed by Gustav F. Schroeder, Morris Fuller Benton, Seymour Caprice and published by Kickingbird. Bathysphere contains 1 styles.

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About Bathysphere Font Family


This steam era typeface, created by Gustav Schroeder in 1884, found popular use on soap box labels and tobacco tins during its initial release. Then, later, a successful and stout revival of Gustav's face, named Othello, was carried out by Morris Fuller Benton in 1934, and the typeface's appeal widened to include items such as broadside posters featuring Boris Karloff's Frankenstein. After metal gave way to film type, Gustav's creation experienced a brief fashion moment in the 1960's, but then disappeared entirely, never re-surfacing as a full digital typeface. With the release of Bathysphere, the typeface comes full circle, having been completely redrawn from scratch using Gustav's original specimens. The new extended language support establishes the typeface firmly in the modern era, while Bathysphere's refinement of subtle blunt corners restores a deep-sea grace to this iron giant.

Designers: Gustav F. Schroeder, Morris Fuller Benton, Seymour Caprice

Publisher: Kickingbird

Foundry: Kickingbird

Design Owner: Kickingbird

MyFonts debut: May 17, 2013

Bathysphere™ is a trademark of Kickingbird Fonts.

About Kickingbird

A foundry with a home in Catalunya. Kickingbird font work takes place in the quiet treehouse headquarters near a former Barcelona textile homestead. Font sketches are completed anywhere a notebook is handy... in the cafes of Gràcia, on the RENFE railway or outside the cloisters of Santa Maria del Mar. Font design inspiration comes from many sources. Faded broadside wall manifestoes in Ravel, broken floor tiles washed up on the shores of Vilassar de Mar or from old cigar boxes found at the Mercat de Sant Antoni...

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