Typeface	City
Category	Serif
Classifications	Slab-serif
Designer(s)	Georg Trump
Foundry	H. Berthold AG

Titlepage for Tschichold's Typographische Gestaltung using City Medium, for the Benno Schwabe & Co. publishing house, 1932.

City is a slab-serif typeface designed by Georg Trump (1896–1985), and released in 1930 by the H. Berthold AG type foundry in Berlin, Germany. Though classified as a square serif, City displays a strong modernist influence in its geometric structure of right angles and opposing round corners. The typeface takes inspiration from the machine age, and industry. A consistent application of repeated parts: an outer circle softening interior rectilinear spaces, results in a highly unified and refined typeface. For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ... For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ... In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. ... A type designer is a person who designs typefaces. ... A type foundry is a company that produces and/or distributes typefaces. ... Berthold can refer to People Berthold, Duke of Bavaria Berthold of Garsten, 12th century prelate Berthold of Ratisbon, 13th century monk David Berthold, theatre director Rudolph Berthold, WWI flying ace Thomas Berthold, soccer coach Places Berthold, North Dakota Category: ...

The lowercase a is composed of a two horizontal rectangles in the interior, the outer skin following the countour but always contrasting the outer stroke with the organic curves. The face was produced in three weights: light, medium, and bold, each in roman and italic. The graphic designer Jan Tschichold helped to popularize the City typeface by his use of it for his book Typographische Gestaltung published by the Basel publishing house Benno Schwabe & Co. Titlepage for Typographische Gestaltung written and designed by Jan Tschichold using City Medium and Bodoni. ...

References

• Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN 0-300-10073-6.
• Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
• Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z pf Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
• Meggs, Philip and Rob Carter. Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces. Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1993. ISBN 0-442-00758-2.

External links

• H. Berthold AG typefaces

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