BenchNine

Designed by Vernon Adams

3 weights • Version 17 • On Google Fonts since 2012 • Popularity #484

Quick Summary

3

Styles

300-700

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

2

Languages / Subsets

Category
sans-serif
Best for
text
Scripts
Latin
Origin
United Kingdom
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 10, 2025

© 2012, vernon adams , with Reserved Font Name 'BenchNine'

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The quick brown fox

32px
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About BenchNine Fonts

The design of BenchNine is loosely based on the look of the ink spreads and bleeds characteristic of traditional or vernacular woodcut type. The design takes a mash-up of a number of old Stephenson Blake designs and rounds the corners a little. In theory the face should work well for headlines that want to stand out just a little from the crowd.

Who Designed BenchNine?

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Vernon practiced typeface design professionally from 2007 to 2014. A lifelong artist, during this period he eagerly explored designing type for the mobile/cloud era of computing. His work spans all genres, from lively script faces to workhorse text families and operating system UI. Vernon graduated with an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading (UK) in 2006, and passed away in California in 2014. Almost all his typefaces live on as open source Google Fonts, and his favorite projects were Oxygen Mono, Monda, and Bowlby One. Follow his story at sansoxygen.com

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