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| Category | Sans-serif |
|---|---|
| Designer(s) | Roger Roberson |
| Date released | 1956 |
Letter Gothic is a monospaced sans-serif typeface. It was created between 1956 and 1962 by Roger Roberson for IBM in their Lexington, Kentucky, plant, and was inspired by the original drawings for Optima.[1] It was initially intended to be used in IBM's Selectric typewriters. It is readable and is recommended for technical documentation and for sheets including columnar data.
Gayaneh Bagdasaryan designed a proportional font called New Letter Gothic, based on Letter Gothic, for ParaType.[citation needed][importance?]
Letter Gothic was included in Windows 95. It was replaced by Andalé Mono in Windows 98 and in 2001, Windows XP replaced it with Lucida Console.
