Empire Font

Morris Fuller Benton designed Empire’s original titling capitals in 1937. David Berlow revived the design for Publish in 1989, introducing lowercase and italic forms. Berlow and Kelly Ehrgott Milligan expanded it again in 1994 with heavier weights, small capitals and oldstyle figures.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

The historical account describes a seven-part series, while the current distributor package lists four fonts: Regular, Italic, Bold and Black. Small-cap resources and font-file packaging can change between editions. Check the actual supplied features rather than treating a historical style count as a current file count.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Try a narrow fashion headline and a mixed-case subheading with the same column width. Inspect numbers and small capitals in the selected edition. Evil Empire is a different query and should not be assumed to mean this family.

For independent comparisons, try Six Caps and Josefin Sans. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use Font Bureau to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve Empire font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.