The Font Bureau, Inc was established in 1989 in Boston. The two men who founded this bureau are publication designer Roger Black and type designer David Berlow, even though they have different backgrounds they were able to join efforts and create this successful company. Berlow had an early interest in digital typography and he quickly grew to appreciate the technology of Adobe postscript and Apple's TrueType. Black had a history of working with magazines such as Rolling Stone, New York, and Newsweek which led to him starting his own business which focused on designing newspapers and magazines. Coincidentally, this business started up the same year he and Berlow founded The Font Bureau. The bureau is now responsible for the production of over 1,500 typefaces which are still pursued by publications today. The bureau prides themselves on having a wide variety of fonts which include traditional serifs to dingbats. Some of the fonts from the FB are Saber(left hand corner), Miller, Sloop, Giza, Tilting Gothic, Boomer Serif (lower left corner) and Roxy to name a few. After looking through the Fonts the Boomer Serif really grabbed my attention because of the thickness of the letters, how they look somewhat condensed, and because of the tails on almost each letter. I find the letter spacing visually appealing however it may influence readability in a negative way. This font was used by the AARP magazine and also the Chicago Tribune.

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