Ballinger

What is the Ballinger Font?

Ballinger began life as a single-weight proprietary typeface called baasic, designed for Dublin-based design office aad. baasic was intended as a plain, hardworking grotesque: a simple tool for clear communication. We’ve developed it into a fully-featured eight-weight family with matching italics. Sources include early 20th century jobbing sanses like Morris Benton’s News Gothic and Candia, a 70s-era typewriter face Josef Müller-Brockmann designed for Olivetti, which had unusually deep junctures that added energy to letters like m and n.. The family takes its name from Raymond A. Ballinger, the great mid-century American designer, author of ‘Lettering Art in Modern Use,’ and champion of elegance and readability. Ballinger has large counters and a generous x-height. Letters like a, e, and s open out gradually as they move from Thin to Black to maintain ample apertures, even in the darkest weights. Semi-oldstyle figures are available, as well as case-sensitive punctuation and delimiters. Italics incorporate subtle ogee curves to lend warmth and energy to the page or screen. Ballinger supports over 130 languages, including русский, български, Српски, and Tiếng Việt. Of course, it pairs well with its sister face, Ballinger Mono, and is available in condensed weights.

Ballinger Font Families

When you download Ballinger, the family will include the following font styles:

• Ballinger Thin
• Ballinger Thin Italic
• Ballinger X-Light
• Ballinger X-Light Italic
• Ballinger Light
• Ballinger Light Italic
• Ballinger Regular
• Ballinger Italic
• Ballinger Medium
• Ballinger Medium Italic
• Ballinger Bold
• Ballinger Bold Italic
• Ballinger X-Bold
• Ballinger X-Bold Italic
• Ballinger Black
• Ballinger Black Italic

Who Designed the Ballinger Font?

Ballinger was designed by Max Phillips.

This font has 16 style(s) and was published by Signal Type Foundry.

Is Ballinger a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Ballinger is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Ballinger. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Ballinger for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Ballinger if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Ballinger to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Ballinger for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Ballinger, it was available for as little as $50.00.