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Overview
ATF Agency Gothic was designed by M.F. Benton in 1932 as a single titling face. In 1990 David Berlow saw potential in the squared forms of the narrow, monotone capitals. He designed a lowercase and added a bold to produce Font Bureau Agency, an immediate popular hit. Sensing further possibilities, he worked with Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Corum to expand Agency into a major series, offering five weights in five widths for text & display settings.
Agency FB is a dramatically square, narrow font family that works best at large sizes for punchy display use. It is especially useful when you have to work within a narrow space and short lines. The font's narrowness and towering height echo the shapes of New York City skyscrapers from the 1920s and 1930s.
Where a less squared-off design might have curves, Agency has sharp but very slightly rounded corners, or straight, slightly slanting lines. It is not meant for body text; it flourishes best in headlines or very short bits of large text. The quirky, angular sharpness of the font's design can make it a dramatic contrast with paragraphs set in a more restrained text font.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| File name | Agencyr.ttf Agencyb.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Agency FB Agency FB Bold |
| Designers | The Font Bureau, Inc. |
| Copyright | Copyright (c) 1995, The Font Bureau, Inc. 1995, 1997, 1998. All rights reserved. |
| Font vendor | N/A |
| Script Tags | N/A |
| Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) |
| Fixed pitch | False |
| Download | N/A – Exclusively included with Microsoft products and services where applicable. |
Licensing and redistribution info
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Products that supply this font
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.
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