Hobo Std font("ново", Russian for "new!") is a sans-serif typeface. It's far uncommon in having certainly no straight strains and no descenders. It became created by way of Morris Fuller Benton and issued by means of American typefounders in 1910. A light model, the light hobo, changed into launched in 1915. Matrices had been supplied for mechanical composition via intertype. The lower case letters furnished the premise for Robert wiebking's advertisers gothic of 1917.
There are numerous theories concerning the font's call, and actually, it is broadly identified as one of the extra thrilling mysteries in typographic history.
