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Celebrating 20 Years of FontShop With Petra Weitz
Take a trip down digital type’s memory lane with a woman who has been at FontShop’s helm since the beginning.
FontFont Introduces Forty9 Magazine
Designed to be a showcase of FontFont’s 49th release, Forty9 is a beautifully illustrated publication that can be viewed on screen or printed.
FontFonts Win at ISTD Awards
Three FontFonts took prizes at the 2009 ISTD International TypoGraphic Awards. Yves Peters talks to the FontFont designers about their award-winning work.
Released within the first year of FontShop’s founding, FF Scala became the first serious text face in the FontFont library. On the 20th anniversary of its creation we revisit the story of FF Scala and its companion FF Scala Sans with a new microsite. Read more about the design process from Martin Majoor, get an overview of all the available styles and weights, and see the typefaces in real-world use.
Good Typographers Deserve the Good Book
Still need a great gift for your creative loved ones? A FontBook, the most complete digital type compendium in print, is the perfect way to bring some holiday cheer to someone dear. Don’t forget one for yourself too! Order by December 16th, 2009 and they’ll arrive at your door just in time for Christmas.
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.
Download Chaco Specimen
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
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.
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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.
Image created with photography by Michael Pieracci & imagery from LiveSurface®
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.
Image created with template from LiveSurface®
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.
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.
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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.
Download FF Celeste Sans Offc Black Set »
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