Complex sentence: Theodore Low De Vinne, publisher of the Century Magazine, wanted a more legible font for his magazine, and so he commissioned his friend, Linn Boyd Benton from the newly formed American Type Founders, to devise such a face.
Split into simpler sentences: Theodore Low De Vinne, publisher of the Century Magazine, wanted a more legible font for his magazine. He commissioned his friend Linn Boyd Benton from the newly formed American Type Founders to devise such a face.