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Austrian born, Berlin based designer Stefan Gandl formed Neubau in 2001 before taking the world by storm with the release of two bestselling books “Neubau Welt” (2005) and “Neubau Modul” (2007). In 2008 Neubau exhibited “Neubauism” a perspicacious, kinetic journey through the world of Neubau opened by legendary designer Wim Crouwel in the Netherlands. Taking a cue from Crouwel’s grid-play and the modernist spirit of the Bauhaus school, Gandl creates alphabets that defy traditional typographic conventions and celebrate the stark, imperfect letters made by machines.
Today we welcome Darío M. Muhafara and Eduardo Rodríguez Tunni’s foundry, Tipo, which gathers the work of Argentina᾿s finest type designers. Of these, Rubén Fontana is the elder statesman. His Chaco was designed for road signs in Latin America which makes it both legible and full of lively flavor. The family was recently expanded to five weights, each with italics, small caps, oldstyle figures, and released in OpenType, making it a versatile system for publication texts and headlines alike.
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The first sketches of this face came from studying the rounded shapes of a special kind of sewing machine technique called overlock. Darío Muhafara managed to retain a warm, organic quality to the design despite reworking it to have the readability and typographic features of a text face. An accomplished, useful family, Overlock was selected for excellence by the Letras Latinas awards.
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Liza
After setting the standard for OpenType-savvy scripts in 2004 with their Bello, Underware has raised the bar. Liza Display and Text boast over 1,000 glyphs each, using automatic substitution technology to simulate human hand lettering as close as possible. Liza Pro deeply analyzes the text, creating the most optimal combination of lettershapes. The magic works on the Caps font too.
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FontFont star Xavier Dupré began work on Masala with the intent to create a sans companion for his popular FF Tartine Script. After rethinking and refining, Masala grew into its own type system of three sans weights and their italics, with an accompanying swashy brush script. The family is just right for logos and packaging as well as informal texts or children’s book covers. Despite its laid-back nature, FF Masala has as much typographic prowess as any serious sans serif. Ligatures, fractions, case-sensitive forms, and a full set of figure styles are included.
Available in Standard OpenType, or a Pro version with extended language support for Central Europe and Turkey.
FF Masala Script & FF Masala Script Pro
A worthy second-act to Dupré’s FF Tartine Script, Masala Script has a bit more contrast in its strokes and a little more swing in its step. Available in Standard OpenType, or a Pro version with extended language support for Central Europe and Turkey.
The very first sketches of FF Mach were drawn by Lukasz Dziedzic in 2004 for a Polish magazine about culture and arts. Rigid and technical, there isn’t a single curve in the family of six weights and 3 widths, but there are hundreds of inventive alternates and ligatures for setting tight, interconnected wordshapes.
Available in Standard OpenType, or a Pro version with Central European, Turkish, and Cyrillic character sets.
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FF DIN, the most popular FontFont yet, finally has a Condensed Italic. More than a simple oblique, this is an optically-adjusted italic matching all five weights of FF DIN Condensed. It fits nicely into Albert-Jan Pool’s finely crafted version of the DIN model.
The most economical and convenient way to get the complete FF DIN family, including the new Condensed Italic is via the FF DIN OT Collection or the FF DIN Pro Collection which adds Central European, Cyrillic, and Greek character sets.
FF Celeste Pro 1, Celeste Pro 2, Celeste Sans Pro 1, Celeste Sans Pro 2, Celeste Small Text Pro
Now Latin Extended, Greek and Cyrillic in FF Celeste Pro.
Latin Extended in FF Celeste Sans and Small Text.
FF DIN Pro
Now with Cyrillic.
FF Folk OT
Now in OpenType.
FF Prater OT
Now in OpenType with easy access to alternate glyphs for variation.
FF Providence Pro & FF Providence Sans Pro
Now with Latin Extended and Greek in FF Providence.
Latin Extended in FF Providence Sans.
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Designers rely on OpenType FontFonts for their typographic features and operability with professional apps like Adobe CS® and QuarkXpress®. But software like Microsoft® Office® isn’t capable of accessing all the features and glyphs of these CFF (PostScript-flavored) OpenType fonts. The font lab at FSI is answering the call with new TTF (TrueType-flavored) OpenType fonts.
Office FontFonts (Offc) are based on Unicode and contained within a single font file. The fonts are style-linked, grouped under a single item in the font menu. Tabular figures, which are more common in the office environment, are the default figure set.. Small caps with oldstyle figures are available as separate fonts.
Office FontFonts are compatible with nearly every kind of software. If it can handle a .ttf, it can handle an Offc. Now everyone can benefit from the cross-platform, ease-of-use OpenType provides.
Office FontFonts are style-linked for compatiblity with Microsoft® Office®. Use the key commands and toolbars you’re familiar with to switch to bold, italic, or bold italic.
Office FontFonts are fully compatible with apps like Excel®, Word®, and PowerPoint®.
Office FontFonts Available Now
The following FontFonts are available in Office versions, with more to follow soon. Get them in a Basic Set (Regular, Regular Italic, Bold and Bold Italic) or as single fonts with their italic companion when available. Just as their CFF-OpenType companions Offc fonts cover 40 Western languages such as English, French, and Spanish. Offc Pro fonts also extend support to many other Latin-based languages (Czech, Turkish, Latvian). And many Offc Pro fonts also contain Greek and/or Cyrillic.
Try an Office FontFont for free.
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The Bluemlein Script Collection is an intriguing reminder of the heady days of American hand lettering and calligraphy. From the early 1930s through World War II, there were about 200 professional hand letterers working in New York City alone. Charles Bluemlein created his scripts by collecting different signatures and then building complete alphabets from them. Alejandro Paul and Sudtipos bring the Bluemlein scripts back to life in a set of expanded digital versions. Extreme care has been taken to render the original scripts authentically.
Casual Brush Script
Like the calligraphic Bluemlein scripts above, these brush-based faces are inspired by advertising lettering of the 1930s–’50s.
Soft Sans: Curve-to-Corner
A popular new style of humanist sans serif influenced by brush lettering and/or contemporary Dutch type design.
Garamond
There are many interpretations of Garamond available from many different foundries. This list puts them all on the same page for easy comparison.
Premiéra is a typeface specifically designed to work in small sizes. A large x-height and short ascenders and descenders make it ideal for books and newspapers. Through an exhaustive process of testing readability on test prints, the face developed straight lines and sharp forms. These features not only work to make the type clear, but also give Premiéra a strong personality whether you read it in text or headlines.
The Modern typeface classification is usually associated with Didones and display faces that often have too much contrast for text use. The Ingeborg family was designed with the intent of producing a Modern face that was readable at any size. Its roots might well be historic, but its approach is very contemporary. The three text weights (Regular, Bold, and Heavy) are functional and discreet while the Display weights (Fat and Block) catch the reader’s eye with a dynamic form and a whole lot of ink on the paper. The family includes a boatload of extras like unicase alternates, swash caps, and a lined fill.
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