What is the LTC Athena™ font?
LTC Athena brings a somewhat “lost” hot-metal typeface back from obscurity into digital Opentype format. In fall 2012, printing historian Rich Hopkins contacted P22 type foundry regarding some inked type drawings he had just uncovered from his acquisition of the Baltimore-based “Baltotype” company some 20 years ago. It is a rare face whose original matrices were destroyed and thought fully lost. The drawings included a full upper and lower case set, numerals, basic punctuation, and alternate forms of some letters.
The design is a narrow deco-flavored design from the 1950s with a curious avoidance of straight lines in the stems and main strokes. More…
The face has been expanded to over 340 characters by Miranda Roth and includes ligatures as well as a full Pan-European character set. It is released through the Lanston division of P22 in consideration of its earlier incarnation as a metal typeface.
LTC Athena™ Font families
The LTC Athena™ font includes the following font families:
LTC Athena™ Preview
Here is a preview of how LTC Athena™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
You're probably thinking - Is LTC Athena™ available to Download for free?
The short answer is no. LTC Athena™ is definitely not available as a free download font. This is a premium font which mean that you will have to pay to download and use it in your project. We showcase fonts on SharedFonts that are almost all premium fonts. Feel free to waste valuable hours of your time searching for a free download of LTC Athena™, but take it from me, you will not be successful in your quest. Just think how much time and effort you will save if you just pay for LTC Athena™ and be done with it.
It is always best to pay for a premium font rather than trying to find an illegal download. The benefits of paying for LTC Athena™ is that you get the license to use it leagally. If you're using an illegal version of LTC Athena™ and you get caught, you or your client could get into some trouble legally with the publisher of LTC Athena™.
Also it is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find LTC Athena™ for free. Doing various searches on Google such as "Free LTC Athena™ Download" you will see a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for LTC Athena™ remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!
If you really want LTC Athena™ and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)
