Originating in the late 1920s as a ‘copy’ of American Type Founders News Gothic (1908) by Morris Fuller Benton, Ludlow’s Record Gothic existed as a stand-alone font in a single weight for many decades. Additional styles were added in an ‘ad hoc’ fashion, by many different hands, over the coming decades, with each new iteration taking on the stylistic quirks of their time. As a result, Ludlow’s unusual hybrid family has produced a rather charming anomaly in the annals of type.