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There’s something for everyone wrapped up in today’s newsletter: a companion to one of the most popular serifs of all time, Mrs. Eaves; a contemporary sans family with weights and widths for any need; two premium scripts from Sudtipos; and the Letterbox collection, a new FontShop exclusive.
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Letterbox
Since 1991, Australian typographer Stephen Banham has worked with Niels Oeltjen, Morice Kastoun, and Wendy Ellerton to create original typefaces inspired by nostalgic type and lettering yet infused with a modern touch. Once available only to those in-the-know Down Under, we’re proud to bring Letterbox fonts to designers around the globe.
Highlights from the library include League, a hefty sans inspired by old wood type; the deceptively simple Morice, each letter formed by a single line; and Bisque, an upright script filled with ligatures and contextual alternates for the most fluid connections.
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Mr Eaves Sans, Mr Eaves Modern
Mr Eaves is the often requested and finally finished sans-serif companion to Mrs Eaves, one of Emigre’s classic typeface designs. Created by Zuzana Licko, this latest addition to the Emigre Type Library expands the versatility of the original Mrs Eaves with two complimentary families: Mr Eaves Sans and Mr Eaves Modern.
Mr Eaves was based on the proportions of Mrs Eaves, but Licko took some liberty with its design. One of the main concerns was to avoid creating a typeface that looked like it simply had its serifs cut off. And while it matches Mrs Eaves in weight, color, and armature, Mr Eaves stands as its own typeface with many unique characteristics.
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CamingoDos
Squarish, but humanistic, CamingoDos is a study in restraint for the sake of legibility. It is the creation of FontShop’s newest designer, Jan Fromm. Fromm created the first Camingo design in 2006 and returned to redraw and expand it for this release. Its broad range of seven weights from ExtraLight to Black and three widths makes it perfectly suitable for editorial and corporate design.
Mastered in flexible OpenType format, CamingoDos contains about 460 glyphs and supports most Latin based languages. It includes tabular oldstyle figures, a set of arrows, fractions and ordinals.
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Whomp
Whomp takes its inspiration from the incomplete alphabet of an American sign painter of the 1930s–’40s: Alf Becker. Alejandro Paul took the challenge of drawing, digitizing, restructuring, and finally building a usable typeface from that partial alphabet, complete with more than 100 alternates, tons of swashy endings and ligatures.
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Buffet Script
Like Whomp, Buffet Script is based on the work of Alf Baker, this time his calligraphy. Alejandro’s technique of turning an alphabet into a workable script font really shines here. Calligraphy is where the accountability of all the alternates, swashes and ligatures is raised to a higher level than in most other type categories.
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Grafika
Grafika is a completely original design, created by lettering master Michael Doret in an “Art Deco” spirit reminiscent of the 1920s and ’30s. Created many years ago for the titles of the Merchant/Ivory feature film “Savages”, Doret revisited the design, completing it with alternates, ligatures, math, accented characters, and punctuation.
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Glosa Display
With its extra high contrast, Glosa Display is made for use in very large sizes when you want to achieve a stylish and elegant look. Glosa Display is part of the Glosa Premium Type System. Use in tandem with Glosa, Glosa Text, and Glosa Headline for comprehensive, expert typesetting and seamless style compatibility.
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