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by mxfh 4461 days ago
Register (2000) still has bragging rights other Stratum (2004) for being 4 years it's senior and being designed by Rian Hughes, who has one of the most unique job interview experiences retold on his Wikipedia page:

He arrived late at his very first job interview at an advertising agency with a lump of dog excrement stuck to the bottom of his portfolio, managed to transfer some of it on to the white shirt he was wearing and the rest onto the meeting-room table. Directors had to open windows to let the stench out. Despite this, he got the job.

Yet they all owe a lot to Morris Fuller Benton's 1932 ATF Agency Gothic, which was extended in 1995 by David Berlow as FB Agency[1] which is similiar to the influential Bank Gothic[2] which he designed two years earlier in 1930.

From there you can venture into that Star Trek TOS typeface (now called Horizon[3]) and into adjacing Microgramma/Eurostile[4][5] territory. It's the future we used to know.

[1]http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontbureau/fb-agency/

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Gothic

[3]http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/horizon/

[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgramma_(typeface)

[5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostile