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FF Nexus Typewriter Alternatives
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As Martin Majoor designed FF Scala and FF Scala Sans in the years between 1988 and 1994, the driving idea was to design a humanist serif from which a sans would be derived. In Majoor’s words: two typefaces, one form principle. The concept became the basis upon which his type design philosophy stood. Since the release of FF Scala’s companion sans, the combination of serif and sans in a single type family has grown to become popular and highly successful in corporate, book, and newspaper design. Ten years after first testing his idea of “two typefaces, one form principle,” he ventured into a new phase: “three typefaces, one form principle,” creating a superfamily as a result: FF Nexus. A popular and strong performer in the FontFont Library, FF Nexus takes some of its structure from FF Scala, adding a slab-like FF Nexus Mix and the monospaced FF Nexus Typewriter to the series.“Even though my first typeface, FF Scala, is still more popular, FF Nexus is, in my opinion, the best typeface I have created so far,” says Majoor. “With FF Nexus Mix, I introduced a third family member in my type design philosophy, and I am happy that this slab version is not a stand-alone typeface; it feels best when accompanied by serif and sans.” While working on the FF Nexus Web FontFonts, the FontFont Type Department decided to revisit the OpenType features of its print fonts as well. In 2006, Martin Majoor’s FF Nexus Serif won first prize at the Creative Review Type Design Awards held in London, in the category of Text Families.
FF Fago is the quintessential corporate typeface, a result of many years of work within the challenges and requirements of complex corporate design projects. The family offers five finely balanced weights across three widths, enough for virtually any conceivable application. Its various widths were carefully planned and drawn to complement and combine with each other. Aside from the impressive... Read More
The first drawings of FF Eureka date from 1995 when it was designed for the bilingual text “Transparency”. The typeface works particularly well with languages that commonly use accented characters. Because most contemporary Latin typefaces have large x-heights, little room is left to accommodate the accents which end up being small and tightly wedged in place. In many languages however, the... Read More
Ascender Sans Mono Regular was designed by Steve Matteson as an innovative, refreshing sans serif design that is metrically compatible with Courier New. Ascender Sans Mono offers improved on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set. The Ascender Sans Mono Regular font solves the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document... Read More
Compatil is the first comprehensive type system which enables all typographical elements to be used to full effect in order to reproduce the message conveyed by text information. Four different type styles with a total of 16 weights including italics have been merged into a unique typographical network. There are now no limits to the font user's creativity. The system is a product of technical... Read More
FF Info is named after its purpose: the transfer of information. Its clean lines make no fashion statements, nor do they attempt any... Read More
“Those people who found FF Letter Gothic Text too polished can breathe a sigh of relief,” announced Pinggera upon the release of this latest extention, FF Letter Gothic Mono. “Letter Gothic” has been returned to its monospaced roots, but it continues to do so in three weights and therefore continues to differentiate itself from the many other digital adaptations of Letter Gothic that are... Read More
Helvetica is one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world. It lends an air of lucid efficiency to any typographic message with its clean, no-nonsense shapes. The original typeface was called Neue Haas Grotesk, and was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger for the Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) in Switzerland. In 1960 the name was changed to Helvetica (an adaptation of... Read More
Arial was designed for Monotype in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders. A contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes... Read More
FF OCR-F came as the first in a series of “non-design” typefaces for the FontFont library. Technically oriented faces, such as DIN, Courier, Pica, or OCR-A and OCR-B have never seen so much demand in design as today. Art directors, magazine publishers, and poster designers love their cold, martial forms. At the same time, many would like to have a few more weight options and perhaps a... Read More
Check also: The Grocery Gothic
Matthew Carter’s Verdana was made for screen reading and works brilliantly within that medium. FF Basic Gothic is a response to Verdana... Read More
The impetus behind Felbridge was both ambitious and highly practical: to develop an ideal "online" typeface for use in web pages and electronic media. Robin Nicholas, the family's designer, explains, "I wanted a straightforward sans serif with strong, clear letterforms which would not degrade when viewed in low resolution environments." Not surprisingly, the design also performs exceptionally... Read More
Lucida is a family of fonts with one basic design, but offered in two variations. It has both serif and sans serif characters. Lucida is suitable for books/text, documentation/business reports, posters, advertisement, multimedia.
The spark behind the creation FF Hydra family came from observing 19th and early 20th century French poster lettering. Its designer Silvio Napoleone found that the styles of this period combined whimsical, economic, and impactful qualities. A typeface that incorporated these characteristics could be especially relevant to today’s design aesthetic. Naploeone began by sketching an extremely... Read More
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