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Rockwell is a slab serif typeface designed by the Monotype Corporation and released in 1934. The project was supervised by Monotype's engineering manager Frank Hinman Pierpont. A serif at the apex of uppercase A is distinct. The lowercase a is two-storey. Because of its monoweighted stroke, Rockwell is used primarily for display or small-size use rather than lengthy bodies of body text. Rockwell is based on an earlier, more condensed slab serif design cast by the Inland Type Foundry called Litho Antique.

Rockwell is a "geometric" slab-serif, with a monoline construction with all strokes appearing to be roughly the same width and its capital 'O' roughly circular. This gives it a similar impression to common sans-serifs of the period like Akzidenz Grotesk, Franklin Gothic, or Futura. It is influenced by a style of geometric slab serif that had become popular released around the time, including the earlier Memphis and Beton, and less similarly Stymie and City.