“In 1975, under license from American Type Founders,
International Typeface Corporation commissioned Tony Stan to redraw
and extend the Century family.” — Adobe.
Started together with ITC
Garamond and ITC
Cheltenham, to address the “shortage of ultra
weight typefaces in the text type size ranges. […] After the
drawings for the three ultra weights were completed, in both the
roman and italic versions, it soon became apparent that an
intermediate ‘book’ weight, with the same matching lowercase ‘x’
heights, compatible with the ultra styles, would also be highly
useful.” ITC Century Ultra and Book, in roman and italic styles,
were announced for September 15, 1975. [U&lc, vol.
2 no. 3] Light and Bold weights were added on October 15, 1980,
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“In 1975, under license from American Type Founders, International Typeface Corporation commissioned Tony Stan to redraw and extend the Century family.” — Adobe. Started together with ITC Garamond and ITC Cheltenham, to address the “shortage of ultra weight typefaces in the text type size ranges. […] After the drawings for the three ultra weights were completed, in both the roman and italic versions, it soon became apparent that an intermediate ‘book’ weight, with the same matching lowercase ‘x’ heights, compatible with the ultra styles, would also be highly useful.” ITC Century Ultra and Book, in roman and italic styles, were announced for September 15, 1975. [U&lc, vol. 2 no. 3] Light and Bold weights were added on October 15, 1980, together with a full range of condensed styles. [U&lc, vol. 7 no. 3]
See also ITC Century Handtooled.
