Slate (typeface)

Slate
Category	Sans-serif
Classification	Neo-grotesque
Designer(s)	Rod McDonald
Foundry	Monotype
Date created	2006

Slate is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface designed by Rod McDonald at Monotype Corporation in 2006, and it is designed for high levels of legibility. Slate Pro is the UI font of the BlackBerry 10 operating system.^[1]

McDonald had previously done research with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) focusing on maximizing the legibility of characters and readability of text, and the Slate family was designed for maximum legibility for both print and screen. The Slate family is also a beautiful design, and as McDonald says "I didn't want a face with an 'engineered' look, or with any noticeable design gimmicks or devices."^[2]

Notes and references

↑ “Typography”, BlackBerry Developer, 2012
↑ , Linotype

Monotype typefaces

1900s	Old Style (1901) Modern Extended (1902) French Round Face (1906) Scotch Roman (1907 and 1920) Goudy Light (1908)

1910s	Veronese (1911) Forum Title (1911) Italian Old Style (1911) Imprint (1912) Plantin (1913) Caslon Old Face (1915)

1920s	Garamont (1921) Bodoni (1921) Garamond (1922) Baskerville (1923) Poliphilus and Blado (1923) Fournier (1925) Goudy Heavy (1925) Engravers Horley Old Style Grotesque (1926) Barbou (1926, private use) Colonna Bernard MT Gallia Pastonchi Othello Lutetia Solus Perpetua (1928) Gill Sans (1928 onwards) Centaur with Arrighi (1929) Bembo (1929) Deepdene (1929) Goudy Sans (1929)

1930s	Lutetia (1930) Bell (1931) Braggadocio Leysbourne Placard Kino Script Falstaff Inflex Littleworth Times New Roman (1932) Monoline Script Rockwell (1933) Walbaum (1933) Colmcille Runic Menhart Ashley Crawford Felix Titling Tempest Titling Van Dijck (1935) Emerson (1936) Gwendolin Gill Kayo Romulus (1936) Albertus Joanna (1937, for private use) Twentieth Century Ehrhardt (1937) Van Dijck (1937) Pegasus (1937) Matura (1938) Sachsenwald Haarlemmer Bulmer (private use)

1940s	Figaro

1950s	Festival Titling Spectrum (1955) Angelus Klang (1955) Ashley Script Fontana Swing Castellar (1957) Headline Bold Mercurius Script Dante (1959) Joanna (general release) (1958) Pepita (1959)

1960s	Univers (1961) Octavian (1961) Fontana (1961) Forte Apollo (1962) Traveller Albertina (1964) Cartier New Berolina Sabon (1966) Bulmer (1967) (general release) Fleet Titling (1967) Barbou (general release)

1970s	Photina

1980s	Calvert Nimrod Arial Footlight Calisto Cantoria

1990s	Amasis Century Gothic Book Antiqua Curlz Carré Noir Gill Facia Cachet

2000s	Neo Sans Slate

2010s	Joanna Sans (2015)

Release dates are approximate only. Not all typefaces shown.

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