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New Foundry: NeubauLaden

NeubauLaden
NeubauLaden

NeubauLaden FontsFontShop Exclusive

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.

 

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New Foundry: Tipo

Chaco

Chaco

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.
Download Chaco Specimen

Overlock

Overlock

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.
Download Tipo Specimen

See more Tipo fonts »

Live Surface

The “in use” images in this newsletter were created with LiveSurface image templates — high-res, pre-masked, multi-layered images with built-in 3D surfaces. They make creating finished photographic images from your artwork as quick as cut + paste.
Visit Live Surface.com to learn more »

 

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New Fonts

Liza

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.

More New Fonts

  • Inoxida, by Sudtipos
  • Galgo Script, by Sudtipos
  • Bella Artes, by Sudtipos
  • Primavera, by Sudtipos
  • Barricada, by Sudtipos
  • Catacumba, by Fountain
  • Meadow, by Fountain
  • Heroine, by Fountain
  • Adelle, by TypeTogether
  • Geogrotesque Stencil, by Emtype
  • Moritat, by Comicraft
  • Civilite Suite, by P22
  • Malena, by Tipo
  • Nimbus Sans Thai, by URW
  • Kuenstler Full Multilingual, by Paratype
 

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New FontFonts: Release 50

Masala In-Use

Image created with photography by Michael Pieracci & imagery from LiveSurface®

Masala

FF Masala & FF Masala Pro

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.

Masala Script In-Use
Masala Script

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.

Mach In-Use
Mach

FF Mach

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.

DIN Condensed Italic In-Use

Image created with template from LiveSurface®

DIN Condensed Italic

FF DIN Condensed Italic

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.

 

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FontFont Upgrades and Extensions

FF Celeste

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

FF DIN Pro
Now with Cyrillic.

Folk and Folk Rough

FF Folk OT
Now in OpenType.

Prater

FF Prater OT
Now in OpenType with easy access to alternate glyphs for variation.

Providence

FF Providence Pro & FF Providence Sans Pro
Now with Latin Extended and Greek in FF Providence.
Latin Extended in FF Providence Sans.

Live Surface

The “in use” images in this newsletter were created with LiveSurface image templates — high-res, pre-masked, multi-layered images with built-in 3D surfaces. They make creating finished photographic images from your artwork as quick as cut + paste.
Visit Live Surface.com to learn more »

 

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Introducing Office FontFonts

FF Office Header

Office FontFonts

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.

Style Linking

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.

FF Office Examples

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.

  • FF Celeste Offc, SC
  • FF Celeste Sans Offc, SC
  • FF Cocon Offc, Condensed, Extra Condensed
  • FF Dagny Offc, SC
  • FF Dax Offc, Condensed, SC, Wide, Compact
  • FF DIN Offc, Condensed
  • FF Duper Offc
  • FF Folk Offc
  • FF Mach Offc, Condensed, Wide
  • FF Market Offc
  • FF Masala Offc
  • FF Meta Offc, Condensed, SC
  • FF Meta Serif Offc, SC
  • FF Providence Offc
  • FF Speak Offc
  • FF Tisa Offc, SC
  • FF Trixie Offc

Try an Office FontFont for free.
Download FF Celeste Sans Offc Black Set »

 

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FontFonts on the Web, Starting Today

This article appears today on The FontFeed. We’re republishing here for the benefit of our newsletter subscribers because interest in the announcement is huge and we don’t want web traffic to get in your way.

If you have an interest in design or technology, you’d have to be living under a rock without wi-fi to be unaware of the recent buzz surrounding web fonts. In short, live type on the web has always been limited to a handful of system fonts. But that era is over. And FontShop is ready to deliver FontFonts for the web, starting today with Typekit. But first, a little history.

How Web Fonts Became a Reality (in 200 Words or Less)

The August 2007 announcement of the “@font-face” CSS declaration led to two years of intense anticipation, hesitation, speculation, and — finally — innovation. Web browser support of this rule meant that one could write simple code to define non-system fonts in a style sheet. When a visitor loaded the web page the fonts would automatically download — just like images — load in their system, and then render in the browser. Web designers applauded the development, seeing it as the critical first step in bringing freedom of font choice to the web. Type designers held back, concerned that the method distributed work too openly and made no distinction between fonts made and licensed for print and those made and licensed for the web. Months passed, seemingly without much progress. The web had the technology, but it didn’t have the fonts.

2009 brought two crucial developments that broke the deadlock: Typekit and the Web Open Font Format (WOFF). The first is a service which hosts fonts and serves them in an optimized, secure way. The second is a new font format designed specifically for the web. The importance of these two breakthroughs was made clear three weeks ago at Typ09 in Mexico City where industry leaders came to the consensus that the delivery mechanism is no longer a sticking point; what is in question now is the quality of type on various browsers, displays, and devices. As Simon Daniels so aptly put it: “the war is over … now it’s time to win the peace.”

Building FontFonts for the Web

How will we win the peace? By delivering well-crafted fonts that will work beautifully on the web right now. Those aforementioned months of what seemed like a silent impasse were actually very busy ones for the designers and engineers at FSI FontShop International in Berlin. They were hard at work fine-tuning FontFonts for the web. The process starts with choosing the right typefaces — some type simply wasn’t meant for screens and rendering schemes as they exist today, but some type is ideal for the web. Features are then pared down to those supported by current browsers to make the fonts as efficient as possible, reducing file sizes and reducing page load time. Finally, the fonts’ TrueType hinting is improved for the most optimal display on all systems.

FontFonts on the Web Today via Typekit

Now that some of the most popular FontFonts are ready, it’s time to make them available for use. Partnering with Typekit is the logical first step. The subscription model is forward-thinking and economical. The service is simple and intuitive. The distribution network is reliable and scalable. And, most importantly, the people at Typekit share the same kind of entrepreneurial, progressive spirit that launched FontShop 20 years ago. It’s a great match. So, starting today, Typekit users can pick from dozens of FontFonts, including FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Netto. Plus, the Typekit service lets you test any of those FontFonts on your page before you publish. Like Erik Spiekermann said, seeing how the type will look in real life “makes a helluva difference”.

FontFont on Typekit
Typekit offers a selection of FontFonts with more to come soon. Any paid subscriber can access all available FontFonts right now. Trial users can use FF Enzo, FF Nuvo, and FF Mach.

FontFonts on the Web Tomorrow via WOFF

Typekit is just one piece of a holistic strategy for FontFonts on the web. The library should be licensable in a more traditional way too. That’s where WOFF fits in. When Erik van Blokland (a FontFont designer himself) and Tal Leming announced their compressed, secure web font format, FSI immediately endorsed the effort. When Mozilla announced that Firefox 3.6 would support the format, Edenspiekermann and FSI published a sample page using a WOFF version of FF Meta — proof that there will be web-optimized FontFonts to come. Soon anyone will be able to license and download for their website the same professional quality FontFont they use in desktop applications, but crafted specifically for the new medium.

A Third Way

Interested in using a FontFont that isn’t yet available on Typekit? You might not have to wait. FontShop is already partnering with sites to serve other FontFonts in the next few weeks. Contact us.

That’s it for now. There will be more FontFont and FontShop announcements on this topic to come soon. It’s been fascinating to watch the thorny, complex saga of web fonts unfold over the last two years, but now the scene is brighter. The next chapter of this story is going to be a lot more fun.

 

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The Abbreviated Typographer

This post was originally written for FontShop Benelux’s Unzipped, by Yves Peters. Learn more typographical terms in our newly expanded Glossary.

Table set in FF Hydra and FF Hydra Extended

A while ago I explained on The FontFeed what the suffixes SH and SB – found in Scangraphic Digital Type Collection fonts – meant. Yet there are a lot more abbreviations which are commonly used in the world of typography, and especially digital fonts. Some relate to glyph sets and font formats, others to design traits and foundries, and so on. Their meaning may be obvious for the seasoned type user, but I can imagine that many type novices – and even regular users – can be confused by a good number of them. Here’s a comprehensive overview*. I think I’ve got all of them, but if you encounter any that aren’t included please feel free to contact me and I’ll add them to the list. Abbreviations of type styles and weights will be covered in a FontFeed post. (*) If you are looking for a specific abbreviation scroll down to the bottom of the post for an alphabetical list.

Glyph Sets


Thanks to Unicode 5.0 and the OpenType format nowadays fonts can accommodate up to 65,535 graphic characters. The PostScript Type 1 format – the previous professional standard – on the other hand is limited to 256 glyphs per file. This may seem sufficient, but actually is just enough for the alphabet in upper and lower case, numerals and punctuation, accented characters for a number of European languages and a number of specials like currency and mathematical characters. So no refined features like small caps, oldstyle numerals, additional ligatures, swashes, ornaments and so on. Those have to be stored in additional font files, which are identified by specific abbreviations. All abbreviations below are found in PostScript Type fonts only.

Exp | Expert Set

Depending on the foundry Expert Sets can hold different configurations of glyphs. The naming implies that those fonts provide all the characters missing in the standard fonts that a typographic expert may have need of. Originally Expert Sets included only small caps, oldstyle or hanging figures, additional ligatures, often super- and subscript letters and numbers, plus some additional special characters and sometimes swashed characters. Normal height capitals were absent, and their slots were occupied by other expert characters. This made Expert fonts rather unwieldy, as converting capitalised words to small caps meant one had select the lowercase characters separately and switch them to the Expert fonts.

SC | Small Caps | OsF | Oldstyle Figures

Small Caps and Oldstyle Figures fonts were the solution to this problem. The Small Caps fonts have the exact same glyph set as the standard fonts, with small caps substituted for the lowercase characters, and oldstyle or hanging figures for the lining figures (or vice versa, depending on the foundry). This allows for selecting complete words and sentences in order to convert them to small caps. Because in traditional typography no small caps were provided in italic faces – nor in bold weights in most cases – those styles only have an Oldstyle Figures variant. So currently most “high-end” PostScript fonts have both SC (and/or OsF) fonts with the small caps and oldstyle figures, and Expert Sets holding the remaining expert characters. The system is an improvement but not ideal yet. To obtain oldstyle figures in a font which has a SC variant but no variant with OsF only, one has to select all the numbers and manually switch them to the SC font.

LF | Lining Figures | TF | Tabular Figures

As I explained above there are not enough character slots in PostScript Type 1 fonts, so some choices have to be made. The first PS1 fonts only had tabular lining figures which had become the standard in photo typesetting. Emigre were the first to include proportional oldstyle figures by default in their text faces; see for example the 1989 classics Triplex and Matrix. FontFont also adhered to the philosophy that oldstyle figures should be the default, as they blend in better with the surrounding text in upper and lower case. Instead of needing OsF fonts those type families had to be augmented with Lining Figures and Tabular Figures variants. See also Figuring It Out: OsF, LF, and TF Explained

Language support

Another downside of the limited character set of PostScript Type 1 fonts is that it can only accommodate accented characters for a limited number of languages. The “standard” fonts cover roughly speaking all Western and Southern European languages, and the Scandinavian languages. But as soon as you start moving eastwards towards and past the central part of Europe new and different accents are needed, and Greek and Cyrillic even use different alphabets. This is why additional fonts are needed for these extra languages. The supported languages may vary a little depending on the foundry. Some language denominations are written in full, others are usually abbreviated. See also Europaschriften.de for an interactive map

Western (standard character set)

Albanian, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian (+ Bokmål & Nynorsk Norwegian), Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Spanish, Swedish

Balt | Baltic

Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian (also included in CE)

CE | Central European

Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian (Lower & Upper)

Turk | Turkish

Gr| Greek

CY | Cyr | Cyrillic

ML | Multiple Language

Depending on the foundry different languages are supported. MacCampus offers a range of language specific fonts, each with their own letter code.

BS | Basque

IC | Icelandic/Faroese

FR | Frühneuhochdeutsch (Middle High German)

Med | Maltese

PQ | Welsh/Irish

RO | Romanian

SA | Saami

TU | Turkish

Translit | Transliteration (accented Latin characters for transliterating languages using non-Latin alphabets)

Optical sizes

D| Display (URW++)

URW++ identify their Display fonts by adding the letter D after the font name.

SB | Bodytypes (Scangraphic Digital Type Collection)

The Scangraphic Digital Type Collection offers all of their fonts in headline and body text versions, with about two thirds of them in both. Bodytypes are spaced and kerned looser than the Supertypes versions. Carefully added ink traps make sure that the inside corners in Bodytypes don’t fill up with ink and stay “sharp”.

SH | Supertypes (Scangraphic Digital Type Collection)

Diacritics are positioned closer to the capitals in the Supertypes, and those versions also have a number of alternate capital forms with the accents integrated in the characters. This allows for all cap headlines with very tight leading, specifically in German.

Font formats


Currently three categories of font formats are offered to our customers, and each have their own abbreviations.

PS · PS1 | PostScript Type 1 font

The PostScript Type 1 font format is pretty amazing. Of course it has certain limitations and OpenType fonts offer numerous advantages, but PostScript Type 1 fonts are the only pieces of software developed more than 20 years ago that still work on today’s machines and operating systems (providing you still have a device that can read the floppy disk ;).

TT · TTF | TrueType font

Because the cost of licensing the PostScript Type 1 format was considered very high at the time, Apple decided in the late 1980s to develop their own font format TrueType. Microsoft added TrueType to the Windows 3.1 operating system, and it became the preferred font format on PC systems.

OT · OTF · TTF | OpenType font

OpenType is the most recent font format, and emerged at the beginning of the new millennium. The format was initially developed by Microsoft, which were later joined by Adobe. OpenType fonts are cross-platform, and come in PostScript flavour (OTF) and TrueType flavour (TTF).

OpenType formats

All OpenType fonts have advanced typographic features and language support built-in, but some OpenType fonts are more equal than others. Our OpenType help page is a great guide, but here are some additional definitions.

Std · OT | OpenType Standard

OpenType Standard fonts support the basic range of languages. Some foundries use the abbreviation Std, while others simply use OT. In the latter case OT identifies both the font format and the language support. Some foundries do include Central European (CE) and Turkish in their Opentype Standard fonts.

Pro | OpenType Pro

OpenType Pro fonts support a broader range of languages than OpenType Standard fonts, typically Central European (CE) and Turkish, and sometimes Greek (Gr) and/or Cyrilic (Cyr). It is important to understand that Pro always includes all accents needed for CE languages, but does not guarantee the presence of the Greek nor the Cyrillic alphabet. Always check the complete character set on the FontShop website before making the purchase.

Min | OpenType Minimum

FontFont offers OpenType Minimum fonts which are only available for display typefaces. They support the same languages as OpenType Standard fonts, though some non-essential glyphs (such as mathematical operators and mathematical Greek characters) may have been omitted.

Offc | Office OpenType

FontFont offers Offc fonts, which are in TrueType-flavored OpenType format. They are intended to help customers who are working with non-OT-savvy applications and therefore can’t use the OT layout features such as alternative figures and Small Caps. The fonts are style-linked, i. e. grouped together under a single item in the font menu, so as best to take advantage of the style selection shortcuts found in applications such as Microsoft Office. The default figure set is Tabular Figures (TF); Small Caps with Oldstyle Figures (OSF) are separate fonts. Most Offc fonts are also available in a Pro version, as explained above.

Com | Communication

Linotype offers OpenType Com fonts which have been optimised for international communication and for use with Microsoft Office applications like like Word, Excel, Powerpoint, … Those TrueType flavoured OpenType fonts are targeted to corporate customers rather than to the professional prepress market. Linotype has defined an extended character set for these fonts, the Linotype Extended European Character set (LEEC) which support 48 Latin languages.

E1s | C1s | C1

LucasFonts offers OpenType versions of Corpid – his corporate identity face – with different language support:
E1s | Supports standard Latin, Central European, Turkish, Baltic, Greek, Cyrillic; includes small caps
C1s | Supports standard Latin, Central European, Turkish, Baltic; includes small caps
C1 | Supports standard Latin, Central European, Turkish, Baltic; no small caps

Font volumes


Fonts can be purchased individually, but packages or volumes always offer the best value and performance. All the foundries on FontShop.com offer discounted packages containing complimentary fonts which ensure you get all the styles you need for professional typography. Different foundries use different nomenclatures to identify these packages; only two of them are abbreviated.

FA | Family

Neufville Digital

VP | Value Pack

Creative Alliance · ITC · Linotype Library · Monotype

Bundle

primetype · TypeTogether · Typotheque

Collection

FontFont · Richard Beatty

Combi

Gestalten

Complete

Alphabet Soup · Creative Alliance · Device Fonts · DSType · G-Type · Linotype Library · Mark Simonson Studio · Monotype · Norwegian Fonts · PampaType · Samuelstype · Sudtipos · TypeTogether · TypeTrust · Underware · Virus Fonts · Wiescher

Family

2Rebels · Alphabet Soup · B&P Type Foundry · Electric Typographer · Emtype · fontsmith · GarageFonts · IHOF · Lanston Type Co. · Letter Perfect · Mark Simonson Studio · Moretype · OurType · PampaType · Red Rooster Collection · Rimmer Type Foundry · Schiavi Design · ShinnType · Sudtipos · Suitcase · Three Islands Press · Typebox · Type-Ø-Tones · Underware · Virus Fonts

Pack

TypeTrust

Package

Emigre · FontPartners · GarageFonts · ITC · TypeRepublic · Underware

Professional

OurType (additionally the OurType Professional complete volumes are licensed for 10 users instead of the standard 5)

Set

G-Type · Lanston Type Co. · P22 · PampaType · PsyOps Type Foundry

Suite

FontFont · PsyOps Type Foundry

Superset

PsyOps Type Foundry

Foundries


All the foundries* in the FontShop catalogue have their own abbreviation, but some of them also use them in the names of their fonts. Additionally some foundries digitised fonts from other manufacturers. Although the abbreviations don’t really have an inherent meaning, they may be important when choosing which version of a font to purchase. A classic example is Futura, whose digitisation can be quite different from one foundry to another. (*) The list below is not the complete list of foundries offered by FontShop, just those abbreviations found in font names.

AEF | Altered Ego

AS | Alphabet Soup

AT | Agfa Typography

BP | B&P Type Foundry

BT | Bitstream

CC | Carter & Cone (added after the font name)

CC | Comicraft (added in front of the font name)

CG | Compugraphic (formerly Agfa fonts)

EF | Elsner + Flake

F2F | Face2Face (the techno collection of the Linotype Library)

FB | The Font Bureau, Inc.

FF | FontFont

FP | FontPartners

FS | fontsmith

FTN | Fountain

ITC | International Typeface Corporation

LP | Letter Perfect

LT | Linotype Library (both capitals; do not confuse with the Lt, the light weight of a typeface!)

LTC | Lanston Type Co.

MD | Michael Doret (type designer and owner of Alphabet Soup)

MT | Monotype

MVB | MvB Fonts

ND | Neufville Digital

P22 | P22

PL | Photo Lettering

PTL | primetype

RTF | Rimmer Type Foundry

TC | Typesettra Collection

URW | URW++ (Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber)

WTC | World Typeface Center

Alphabetical list of abbreviations

AEF | Altered Ego (foundry)
AS | Alphabet Soup (foundry)
AT | Agfa Typography

Balt | Baltic (language support)
BP | B&P Type Foundry (foundry)
BS | Basque (language support)
BT | Bitstream (foundry)

C1 (OpenType format/language support)
C1s (OpenType format/language support)
CC | Carter & Cone (foundry)
CC | Comicraft (foundry)
CE | Central European (language support)
CG | Compugraphic (foundry) Com | Communication (OpenType format/language support)
CY | Cyrillic (language support) Cyr | Cyrillic (language support)

D | Display (optical size)

E1s (OpenType format/language support)
EF | Elsner + Flake (foundry)
Exp | Expert Set (glyph set)

F2F | Face2Face (foundry)
FA | Family (volume)
FB | The Font Bureau, Inc. (foundry)
FF | FontFont (foundry)
FP | FontPartners (foundry)
FR | Frühneuhochdeutsch (Middle High German) (language support)
FS | fontsmith (foundry)
FTN | Fountain

Gr | Greek (language support)

IC | Icelandic/Faroese (language support)
ITC | International Typeface Corporation (foundry)

LF | Lining Figures (glyph set)
LP | Letter Perfect (foundry)
LT | Linotype Library (foundry)
LTC | Lanston Type Co. (foundry)

MD | Michael Doret (type designer and owner of Alphabet Soup)
Med | Maltese (language support)
Min | OpenType Minimum (OpenType format/glyph support)
ML | Multiple Language (language support)
MT | Monotype (foundry)
MvB | MvB Fonts (foundry)

ND | Neufville Digital (foundry)

Offc | Office OpenType (OpenType format)
OsF | Oldstyle Figures (glyph set)
OT | OpenType (font format)
OT | OpenType Standard (OpenType format/language support)
OTF | OpenType (font format)

P22 | P22 (foundry)
PL | Photo Lettering (foundry)
PQ | Welsh/Irish (language support)
Pro | OpenType Pro (OpenType format/language support)
PS | PostScript Type 1 (font format)
PS1 | PostScript Type 1 (font format)
PTL | primetype (foundry)

RO | Romanian (language support)
RTF | Rimmer Type Foundry (foundry)

SA | Saami (language support)
SB | Bodytypes (optical size)
SC | Small Caps (glyph set) SH | Supertypes (optical size)
Std | OpenType Standard (OpenType format/language support)

TC | Typesettra (foundry)
TF | Tabular Figures (glyph set)
Translit | Transliteration (language support)
TU | Turkish (language support)
Turk | Turkish (language support)
TT | TrueType (font format)
TTF | TrueType (font format)
TTF | TrueType-flavoured OpenType (font format)

URW | URW++ (foundry)

VP | Value Pack (volume)

WTC | World Typeface Center (foundry)

 

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New and Notable

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.

Miss Le Gatees

Miss Le Gatees

Herr Von Muellerhoff

Herr Von Muellerhoff

Mr Dafoe

Mr Dafoe

Mrs Blackfort

Mrs Blackfort

Miss Stephams

Miss Stephams

Dr Sujiyama

Dr Sujiyama

Miss Fitzpatrick

Miss Fitzpatrick

Dr Carbfred

Dr Carbfred

Miss Robertson

Miss Robertson

Mrs Sheppards

Mrs Sheppards

 

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Fresh From the FontFeed

Webfonts Week: An Interview with Bryan Mason of Typekit

Webfonts Week: An Interview with Bryan Mason of Typekit
2009 will be remembered as the year that introduced tenable standards and methods for using non-system fonts on the Web. One service that is making that happen is Typekit.

Celebrating 20 Years of FontShop With Joan Spiekermann

Celebrating 20 Years of FontShop With Joan Spiekermann
Our cofounder and still the “mater familias” tells the story of FontShop’s early days.

The Twenty Tweetable Truths About Magazines In Animated Type

The Twenty Tweetable Truths About Magazines In Animated Type
The Magazine Publishers of America launch a campaign to dispell the notion that magazines are one the way out.

 

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