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Mark van Bronkhorst has a tradition of naming faces after local landmarks in his native California Bay Area. Solano Gothic , his sophisticated deco sans, is named after the main commercial avenue in Albany, California – my town and Mark’s current residence. Now he’s finished a new superfamily named after San Francisco’s waterfront: Embarcadero takes its name from the popular walking and shopping area around that city’s Ferry Building and nearby entertainment districts, just north of Giants Stadium.
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MvB Embarcadero
Christopher Stahl ’s first MyFonts release, Pragmatik is a “square sans … influenced by the heritage of German industrial type,” using many modern, fresh letterforms that make it stand out from its DIN precursors. The six-font family (three weights, each with its own italic) includes over 350 glyphs per font, with full support for central and western European typesetting; proportional & tabular lining and proportional oldstyle figures; various standard and discretionary ligatures; a number of stylistic alternates and historical forms, including a traditional eszett. Pragmatik is currently on sale for a short time at $55.93 for all six fonts, a 30% markdown from the usual price of $79.90
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Pragmatikally Yours
In 2008 during its investigations of Dutch typography the Círculo de Tipógrafos , a group of young designers in Mexico City, stumbled by way of Jan Middendorp on the work of Boudewijn Ietswaart . This young Dutch designer arrived in Mexico City in 1961
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Candy Script Taking its inspiration from Argentina and its culture, Alejandro Paul’s Candy Script comes from the tradition of window sign painting. Yet its thick hand-brushed characters — with alternates for almost every single upper and lowercase letter — have a personality all of their own. This joyous script includes numerous OpenType alternates; over 600 characters in total.
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Joey Maul lives in rural Indiana, but his type is big-city loud. That’s certainly the case with Ampmosphere , a picture font full of finely detailed music-related illustrations, including instruments, studio equipment and other details. One of Joey’s previous faces is Rainsong , a well-drawn set of capitals illustrated with Native American motifs
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To Those of You About to Rock
Wisconsin-based type and graphic designer Stuart Sandler ’s Font Diner has long been one of the go-to foundries for type based on classic American advertising design and signpainting of the mid-20th century. As of this week, an even dozen of his most recent creations – including interlocked display faces with a Beatnik flair, classic tattoo-inspired lettering , brush scripts and more – are all available at MyFonts.
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Delicious New Releases from Font Diner
Charles Ying at MyFonts webmaster Chris Lewis’s wedding in 2005 Charles Ying, the father of MyFonts, passed away in Hawaii on September 9, 2010. He was 63. One day in 1999, when Charles was CEO of Bitstream, he pointed his web browser to www.bitstream.com to find a font for a party invitation
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Sad News
We’ve long been fans of Swedish graphic and type designer Stefan Hattenbach’s work; his foundry, MAC Rhino Fonts , is finally here on MyFonts and we couldn’t be happier. Please take a look at all his faces, especially my favorites, the extremely flexible sans family Sophisto and the Nordisk Antikva-inspired text family Tarocco . pictured above: Hattenbach’s Oxtail ; Creative Commons-licensed specimen by Stephen Coles
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MacRhino Arrives
Jos Buivenga ’s newest tour de force is Geotica , which is built from, in Buivenga’s typically modest description, “simple geometrical line elements.” The end result is anything but simple, though. 16 fonts – 4 styles (a solid character set, open letters, engraved and a fill layer) at four different optical sizes – make Geotica ideal for both very large and even small display uses.
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Gorgeous Geotica
Elena Albertoni – designer of Dolce and Dyna , two of my favorite scripts – is back with a new release, the distinctive and extremely legible 14-style text family Acuta .
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Acuta: Apotheosis of Angular Accessibility
Originally produced for Polygraphmash’s (the largest of the Soviet state-run printing and design firms) type design bureau in 1968 by letterer and type designer Anatoly Shchukin , Ladoga was the first successful attempt to emulate a Renaissance antiqua in Cyrillic. It went on to be an extremely successful release for Shchukin, and was a very common book face all across the Soviet Union throughout the 1970s. Viktor Kharik – whom we hope to see much more from in the future – has completed this version of Ladoga , which is much more than simply a revival of a photolettering type.
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Paratype’s Ladoga
To celebrate 20 years, FontFont offered 20% off a selection of twenty FontFonts for twenty days. Every day, we highlighted each 20 Year Anniversary FontFont Selection by sharing additional product information, including comments from the designer
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Font of the Day: FF Yoga FontFont 20 Year Anniversary Special
To celebrate 20 years, FontFont is offering 20% off a selection of twenty FontFonts for twenty days. Every day, we’ll highlight each 20 Year Anniversary FontFont Selection by sharing additional product information, including comments from the designer. Join the celebration
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Font of the Day: FF Milo FontFont 20 Year Anniversary Special
We talked to Nick Shinn , subject of a Creative Characters interview and designer of the very affordable and utilitarian complementary sans faces Sense and Sensibility – which, together, make up a 32-font superfamily – about this new retail release, which has been used extensively and very successfully by the Globe & Mail for several years. I’ll make no bones about this, I want people to licence the whole superfamily, which is why it’s 32 fonts for $249 – under $8 each. The idea is you can make a layout and see what works best, a modernist or a humanist face, without reformatting (or) present both to your client and let them decide
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Shinnfonts: Sense & Sensibility
To celebrate 20 years, FontFont is offering 20% off a selection of twenty FontFonts for twenty days. Every day, we’ll highlight each 20 Year Anniversary FontFont Selection by sharing additional product information, including comments from the designer. Join the celebration
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Font of the Day: FF Dingbats 2.0 FontFont 20 Year Anniversary Special
Canada Type has four new releases this week. One, Neil Bold , is a revival of a wonderful old Typositor face, originally designed in 1966 by Wayne Stettler ; Sol Pro is a reworking of that classic science-fiction favorite, originally designed by Marty Goldstein and C.B. Smith in 1973, and the other two – Slinger and Marvin – are original designs
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Four New Releases from Canada Type
To celebrate 20 years, FontFont is offering 20% off a selection of twenty FontFonts for twenty days. Every day, we’ll highlight each 20 Year Anniversary FontFont Selection by sharing additional product information, including comments from the designer.
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Font of the Day: FF Instant Types FontFont 20 Year Anniversary Special
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Font of the Day: FF Quadraat FontFont 20 Year Anniversary Special
Stefan Willerstorfer ’s Acorde is a sans text and display family with some interesting humanist touches that give it real character when used large. Perfect for large projects where a wide range of settings will be required, Acorde includes over 925 glyphs in each of the 14 styles (7 weights, each with its own italic), and the wide variety of accents, figures, small caps and other niceties are made especially usable by its Opentype functionality. This is the first commercial release from Willerstorfer, a freelance designer living in Vienna
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Stefan Willerstorfer’s Acorde: A New Humanist Sans
We’ve got a lot of new faces around here this week, and several really stand out. Whether you’re looking for a modern calligraphic script, an Arabic and Roman sci-fi fusion , jazz-inspired doodles , a chunky, masculine display face inspired by the casual display lettering of the early 1960s (also in Cyrillic!) we’ve got something for you.
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New Type This Week