Since then, the Scotch flavor has lived on in many. Century Schoolbook was designed by Morris Benton and published by Bitstream. Century Schoolbook contains West, East, Turkish, Baltic, Romanian language support. Data © The Monotype Corporation plc / Type Solutions Inc. The original font named Century, designed by Linn Boyd Benton in 1894, was derived from this Scotch model. Century Schoolbook is a classic and elegant serif font, originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1917. Generations of children learned to read with this font. It is round, open, and sturdy, and although heavier in appearance than many other serif fonts, it comes near the top of the list of no-nonsense text fonts that will withstand a lot of punishment. This face does the job it was meant to do very well. It was Morris Fuller Benton, who made several other versions of Century, who also made several versions Schoolbook for ATF, starting in about 1919.
This was followed a few years later, at the turn of the century, by Century Expanded. De Vinne for Century magazine to replace the unsuitable face they had used previously. The first Century was cut by Linn Boyd Benton working with T.