FontShop Newsletter | July 6, 2011

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Delight Script by Sudtipos

Gordon Black by Letterbox

Introducing Subsetter: Optimize your Web FontFonts

New Font Bureau fonts: Salvo Sans & Salvo Serif, Alix FB

New Sudtipos font: Delight Script

New Letterbox fonts: Brunswick Black, Gordon Black

TYPO London: Typo is coming home

Optimize your Web FontFonts

Subsetter was designed with the needs of both web designers and developers in mind. Its purpose is simple — reduce the file size of your Web FontFonts to make your websites faster, optimize bandwidth usage, and reduce high-traffic costs. Subsetter allows you to strip out extraneous glyphs and data that you may not need, like unused language characters, punctuation marks, and kerning information. It will create a new, lighter webfont file tailored to your website.

On July 20, FontFont will be releasing an upgraded Web FontFont collection. To further optimize your Subsetter experience, we encourage you to re-download your Web FontFonts after July 20 to get the improved versions. This will ensure that you end up with a smaller file size, additional optimization for Microsoft’s rendering API DirectWrite, and improved vertical metrics for consistent baseline positions in all browsers. Upgraded Web FontFont files will be available at no additional cost.

You can reduce your Web FontFont file sizes in a matter of moments with Subsetter’s easy, three-step process. Grab FF Nuvo Web for free and give Subsetter a try.

Salvo Sans & Salvo Serif

By Cyrus Highsmith

Cyrus Highsmith designed Salvo Sans & Salvo Serif (originally called Boomer Sans & Boomer Serif) as one series to tie the design of AARP The Magazine to AARP The Bulletin and AARP Segunda Juventud. Together the Salvos illustrate the guiding sentiments of the design director, Courtney Murphy: “Hopeful, informative, alive, embracing and delightful. The right words draw people in, but on a subconscious level the typeface does that first.”

Salvo Sans PDF Salvo Serif PDF

Alix FB

By Matthew Butterick

With a vintage Selectric typewriter as his muse, Matthew Butterick set out to make a monospaced font that preserved the liveliness and comfortable readability of a proportional design. FB Alix was inspired by IBM’s Prestige, a 50s stalwart, but features true cursive italics, not sloped variants. An OpenType set of proportional alternates allows for more conventional text fitting while retaining the classic typewriter look.

Alix FB PDF

Delight Script

By Alejandro Paul, Angel Koziupa

Delight Script is a fresh and original Angel Koziupa design that takes its cue from post-WWII advertising scripts. Casual, bouncy and playful, this upright script is built and engineered by Alejandro Paul with tons of alternates to make every word look like it was hand lettered by a pro. Spice up your designs with this contemporary script with a vintage flavor.

Brunswick Black

By Lan Huang, Claire Ghyzel

Named after its place of birth, Brunswick (Melbourne, Australia), this black display face builds upon the rich heritage of Cooper Black whilst minimizing the more cartoon-like aspects of the original and basing it on a very sturdy broad serif. Its solid character shapes and chunky serifs respond well to tight setting. Brunswick Black features not only small caps but also petite caps, allowing for unicase setting.

Brunswick Black PDF

Gordon Black

By Lan Huang

Although at first sight it may appear as a no-nonsense bold titling face, Gordon actually offers great versatility through the addition of a wide range of special superscript ornaments — so-called word logos or “catchwords”. This adds an element of playfulness and depth to the friendly all caps sans with blunt corners, offering a wide range of creative typographic possibilities.

Gordon Black PDF

Terital United

By Wendy Ellerton, Lan Huang

The long and frustrating search for a dynamic, monoline script prompted Wendy Ellerton and Lan Huang to design Terital. The script takes its name from the 1960s Italian overcoat advertisement that was the original inspiration for this 2003 creation. Although it was initially designed as a lowercase set to avoid the odd all-caps script setting, this limitation was reversed in the new OpenType version, which now comprises beautiful swash capitals.

Terital United PDF

TYPO is coming home!

We are delighted to announce that TYPO London, the event based on the hugely successful TYPO Berlin, will return to its roots in London, the city where it all began with FUSE 1994. Europe’s most successful annual design conference was founded in 1996 from the impetus created by the first two FUSE Conferences in London 1994 and Berlin 1995. The Berlin FUSE conference was the springboard that created the demand for TYPO. It is fitting that the founder of FUSE, legendary designer and typographer Neville Brody, “Britain’s first pop-star typographer” (International Herald Tribune), will be one of the speakers at TYPO London 2011.

In October FUSE will return to its roots — as TYPO London 2011. Some 1,000 typographers, designers and communication professionals from all over the world will have the opportunity to follow an eclectic and inspiring mix of talks by the most influential thinkers of these disciplines. The theme of this year's TYPO London is Places. From information and urban planning to social networks, online communities and animated worlds, places shape our social behavior. Design and the creative process are often the unifying factors linking people, places and things together.

Among the speakers who have confirmed their attendance for TYPO London 2011 are: Neville Brody, Michael Bierut, König Bansah, Jonathan Ellery, Jeff Faulkner, Tim Fendley, Dale Herigstad, Nat Hunter, Gary Hustwit, Michael B. Johnson, Chip Kidd, Morag Myerscough, Pamela Mead, Karin von Ompteda, Joachim Sauter, Marina Willer, Laurence Weiner, Julian Zimmermann and many more.

The 2nd round of early bird tickets has just started!