FontShop Newsletter | January 18, 2012

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Bookmania by Mark Simonson Studio

Treza by Gestalten

New foundry: Rosetta

New foundry: Letters from Sweden

New font by Mark Simonson Studio: Bookmania

New fonts from Gestalten: Sequencia, Treza, Pipo

New font from Fountain: Capri

FontBook for iPad: What's new in v2.0

News from FontFont: Annual Report released

You asked for more and better multi-script faces. Rosetta’s Veronika Burian, David Březina, and José Scaglione answered your call. FontShop is delighted to welcome the Rosetta library to our offerings.

Aisha Latin & Aisha Arabic

With Aisha, designer Titus Nemeth accentuates the playful aspects of brush lettering, tying together the distinctive writing systems of Arabic and Latin-based languages. Aisha is an upright script that works in both text and display, in four corresponding weights.

Aisha Specimen PDF

Nassim Latin & Nassim Arabic

Nassim is a robust text face drawn for economy of width. Formal elements such as the rotation of the stroke’s fore edge — and the resultant ‘kinks’ that enliven the counters — act to marry Nassim’s Roman to its Arabic counterpart. Nassim is available in four weights. There is no italic.

Nassim Specimen PDF

Letters From Sweden was formed by Fredrik Andersson and Göran Söderström. Fredrik is graphic designer at Pangea design and lecturer on the history and design of typography. His type designs include Berling Nova Sans & Serif (with Örjan Nordling), custom faces for Nu-institutet and Botkyrka konsthall, and an upcoming release for Fountain. Göran has been designing type since 2006, but his letter-shape doodling goes way back. He is self taught (hence the occasional Autodidakt moniker) and previously published his works through Psy/Ops, Fountain and FontFont. Employed at the type design department at Pangea design, he has developed custom type for ICA, LO, SEB and others.

Siri

The Nordic name Siri means beauty and strength. The typeface Siri wears this name perfectly. This elegant stressed sans has narrow letter forms with a generous x-height, making it an economic typeface that is still perfectly readable in small sizes. When used big the playfully curved spurs and ever-so-slightly flared stroke endings sing across the page. The versatile family comes in a wide range of eight weights, all with matching italics, useful OpenType features and four stylistic sets.

Siri Specimen PDF

Shabash

Shabash is rooted in an identity design project for Kashmir, an Indian restaurant in Stockholm. Göran’s initial business meeting blossomed into a lifelong friendship and inspired him to travel to India. Shabash Pro is his tribute to the Near East, its people, and the explosion of colors and flavors. Shabash has squarish letter forms tempered by tapered stroke endings, for a flowing sense of movement. Curvy swashes on the alternate capitals add a whiff of whimsy.

Bookmania

Bookmania is a revival of Bookman Oldstyle (1901), not the sandpapered ITC version but the charming original. Its over 680 swash characters and 35 optional discretionary ligatures turn setting headlines and word marks into an adventure of exploration and fun. But there’s plenty more to Bookmania than swashes; its five weights with matching italics make it a family of modern, full-featured OpenType fonts.

Bookmania Specimen PDF

Sequencia

Sequencia is a proportionally spaced text face drawn with a monospaced aesthetic. The face’s letterfit is loose, and a narrow A, W, or M occasionally stands in as a reminder of its roots. Sequencia also exists in monospace.

Sequencia Specimen PDF

Treza

Treza started as a redrawing, more or less, of American Typewriter, then lightened up. The monolinear face still wears its charming ancestral quirks (bulbous head and foot serifs); flaunts the sleekness of a new generation (vertical serifs streamlined to ball terminals), and demonstrates youthful agility.

Treza Specimen PDF

Pipo

It’s nice to see one like this, work that shows real dedication to a simple principle. Designer Benoît Bodhuin drew Pipo with the concept of transit in mind, “departure and arrival.”. The strokes of each of Pipo’s characters are carefully routed, hitting all the stops in a single pass.

Pipo Specimen PDF

Capri

Based on basic forms like the square, the circle and the triangle, Capri was developed by drawing not writing. The geometric letter forms are decidedly contemporary, with the vintage charm of constructivist faces like Futura and ITC Avant Garde Gothic. This headline face has a classic elegance just right for fashion and beauty advertising.

Capri Specimen PDF

FontBook v2.0 is here

Let’s hope the world doesn’t end this year, because 12 months is barely enough time to explore all the features in version 2.0 of the FontBook™ iPad app. FontShop International released a major upgrade of this award-winning app.

More information at FontBook.com.

FontBook v2.0 features

300+ new and updated font families
Expanded homepage featuring three new sections: News, Usage and Compare
Two separate bookmark categories: Favorite and Compare
New online news stream featuring daily typography news, inspirations and award-winning typefaces
New focused search for typefaces by Use Case, Genre, Period and more
Curated lists of Super Families, Alternatives and more
Automatic over-the-air content updates