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Date set in PTL Publicala

PTL Publicala

PTL Minimala
Designed in the mid-’80s behind the Berlin Wall for the state-run foundry Typoart, PTL Publicala and Minimala are typefaces seen by few outside the Iron Curtain. Until now. Primetype’s Ole Schäfer worked directly with Typoart veteran Karl-Heinz Lange to digitize these families along with PTL Superla.

Adriane Text and Adriane Lux

Cowboyslang

Suave Script

Barbieri

Sadey Ann

Typographic Tidbits
Three sites that lit up screens and minds in the FontShop office this month.

KLUGE
Meet the Kluge letterpress: a 2,000 pound, cast iron, electric powered monstrosity of vacillating rods, spinning wheels, and pneumatic hoses. Nick Sambrato runs the machine in this beautiful video about a beautiful craft.

Overcoming Creative Block
“Do something else, wash the car, back-up your data, do errands…” Erik Spiekermann and 25 others offer advice for sparking creativity on the ISO50 blog.

Type Tide
Finding inspirational typography can be difficult because few sources feature and cite actual typefaces in use. Two exceptions: our Gallery; and Type Tide, where FontShop’s Stephen Coles exhibits his personal favorites.

What’s the difference between Std and Pro?

OpenType is the undisputed king of font formats, but when buying fonts it’s not always as easy as just selecting OpenType and going forth. One of the most common questions the FontShop support team receives is: “should I get Std or Pro?”

Generally, the key difference between OpenType Standard (Std) and OpenType Pro is in the languages that each version supports. Std fonts include the basic Western language character set with support for languages like English, French, German, Spanish, and those of Scandinavia; Pro fonts support additional languages beyond the Western set. Pro fonts often contain Central/Eastern European language characters, and sometimes also contain Greek and Cyrillic. Aside from the language differences Std and Pro fonts are usually identical: both will have any OpenType features that were designed for the font, such as small caps, figure variants, contextual and stylistic alternates, and more. The main exceptions to this rule are Office FontFonts, which are designed for Microsoft® Office® use and may contain extra language support, but not all the OT features.

Many foundries, such as FontFont, do not use the “Std” abbreviation in their OpenType Standard font names, choosing instead to go with the simple “OT” abbreviation. Other foundries have only one OpenType variant; in some cases it will have no special OpenType features, and in other cases it will have features and extended language support, without any reference to these capabilities in its name.

If you are ever unsure of which characters are included in a font, you can always view the complete Character Set on any Single Font page. Or contact us and we’ll be happy to let you know.

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When do you buy fonts?

Some users license fonts when they see something they like or might be useful later on, while others only buy type when it’s needed for a specific project. When do you buy fonts?
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