Linotype also released some styles with a rounded design. The extended width from original Trade Gothic was not included. OpenType features include sub/superscript, proportional lining figures. It supports ISO-Adobe 2, Adobe CE, Latin Extended characters. The family includes 17 fonts in four weights and three widths, with the fourth (Light) weight only in widest width fonts, and complementary italic in all but Compressed width fonts. Other reworked designs include terminals, stroke endings, the spacing, and the kerning.
The most important change was to remove the inconsistencies found in the original family. Released in February 2009 by Linotype, it is a redesign by Akira Kobayashi and Tom Grace. Like many pre-digital fonts, cross-licensing has meant the original digitisation of Trade Gothic is available from a range of companies, including Adobe (14 styles) and Linotype (36). Its complex history has left it with several unexpected features for instance, in some digital releases, the default bold weight is more condensed than the regular weight, the opposite of the norm, with a wider bold offered as an alternative. This variety is often popular with designers who feel that it creates a more characterful effect. Like many gothic fonts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Trade Gothic is more irregular than many other sans-serif families that came later, especially later ones like Helvetica and Univers.
The family includes three weights and three widths.
Trade Gothic is a sans-serif typeface designed in 1948 by Jackson Burke (1908–1975), who continued to work on further style-weight combinations, eventually 14 in all, until 1960, while he was director of type development for Linotype in the US.
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