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Suomi Hand Script Finland’s Tomi Haaparanta joins FontShop with a remarkable font that simulates everyday handwriting better than any we’ve seen. It accomplishes the feat not with hi-tech OpenType magic but with hundreds of ligatures , connecting pairs and trios of letters the way most of us do when we write. Suomi Hand Script strikes a balance between legibility and authenticity, readable at nearly any size because it demonstrates the natural rhythm and contrast made by the human hand.
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New and Notable
Bestsellers by Classification and Region Our Bestsellers list has always been a gauge for the most successful and interesting typefaces of the last few months. Now you can break it down by classification (Sans, Serif, Script, etc.) or region (US/Canada, UK, Benelux, Australia, etc.) or both. Get a view of what’s popular in your neck of the woods, and check back often — the lists are always changing.
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Bestsellers by Classification and Region
Our friend Richard Kegler shares the sad news that great man of type Jim Rimmer has passed on: Jim Rimmer passed away early January 8, 2010. Jim was a multi-talented type designer, graphic artist, bookbinder, printer, letterer, technician and a most generous teacher.
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Jim Rimmer, Typographer & Typefounder
Grindel Cove is the first release from freelance graphic designer and educator Laura Worthington . Ideal for especially spooky or piratical display settings, we’re sure it will be a big hit at Halloween and on Talk Like a Pirate Day , and hopefully before then, too. Built from pen and ink letterforms originally made for a native plant habitat garden, the alphabet was recently expanded into a full useable font
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Please Welcome Laura Worthington
The Week in Type Hoping that everyone is feeling refreshed, invigorated and inspired after Christmas and New Year. That we are now in 2010 is arbitrary, but it is at the same time a marker, the end of something, and the beginning of something else; a kind of armistice, an opportunity to dump all the bad, and begin a anew with the good
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Twenty-ten type
Continuing our recent fascination with poster artists, we bring you Minneapolis designer Paul Gardner, the man behind Florafauna . A talented letterer and typographer, Paul’s typographic sophistication is especially noticeable in his logotypes and posters; his poster work, especially, takes center stage as Florafauna is as much a screenprinting shop as it is a design consultancy
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Paul Gardner is Florafauna
This is the season of giving, whether it is for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or just to exchange gifts. So, with so many people here self-employed and thus lacking a company to give out those turkey dinners, terrific bonuses, and whatnot; I thought it would be a great idea to provide a list of real and fantasy gifts that would be perfect for the freelancer in your family, even if it is yourself. The Perfect Gift For Every Freelancer A Matched Set of Angel and Devil ‘lancers: Set the “Devil ‘lancer” on one shoulder to tell you what you should be saying to that client that wants five more changes in two days and then doesn’t give you the materials until the day they want the job done
We’re very happy to have several of Sudtipos ’ most attractive releases finally coming to MyFonts after a period of exclusivity at other vendors. Ministry Script has been a favorite of typographers since its release in 2005, but it’s just been released this week here at MyFonts and we couldn’t be happier! Ministry Script was designed to be “A time capsule that marks both the American ad art of the 1920s, and the current new-millennium acrobatics of digital type.” Ministry’s OpenType features include contextual and stylistic alternates, swash characters, and a galaxy of ligatures. A single face with over 1,000 characters to explore
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Ministry Script Comes Home to MyFonts
Mr Eaves Sans , Mr Eaves Modern Mr Eaves is the often requested and finally finished sans-serif companion to Mrs Eaves , one of Emigre’s classic typeface designs. Created by Zuzana Licko, this latest addition to the Emigre Type Library expands the versatility of the original Mrs Eaves with two complimentary families: Mr Eaves Sans and Mr Eaves Modern
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New Fonts
Since 1991, Australian typographer Stephen Banham has worked with Niels Oeltjen, Morice Kastoun, and Wendy Ellerton to create original typefaces inspired by nostalgic type and lettering yet infused with a modern touch. Once available only to those in-the-know Down Under, we’re proud to bring Letterbox fonts to designers around the globe
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New Foundry: Letterbox
Tart Workshop – aka the hand of Crystal Kluge and technical expertise of Stuart Sandler – has a neat new three-part family out this month. The Carrotflower faces – an attractive and childlike hand-drawn sans and two very consistent and useful sets of icons – is ideal for anyone producing wedding invitations, birth and party announcements and similar materials
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Carrotflower & Carrotflower Icons
Canada Type ’s Tupelo , an extremely fluid connecting script, is a sort of synethsis of Austrian formal calligraphy – circa mid 18th century – and two specific individuals’ handwriting. Designer Philip Bouwsma credits the scripts of Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln, each of which shared a common ancestor in a specific writing system, with the face’s genesis; certainly the writing system those two historical figures learned in grade school figures prominently in this. Tupelo Pro includes over 840 characters, which includes swash caps, stylistic alternates, beginning and ending figures and oldstyle numerals.
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Where Canada and Mississippi Meet
Each downloadable file below contains a simplified .psd with an empty layer for you to paste your photo into along with fully editable text layers (fonts included in the download). Simply paste your photo into the designated area, adjust the text as desired and save the file as a .jpg or .tiff. These are 2-4MB files,
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Hero’s Free Photoshop Holiday Cards
Released within the first year of FontShop’s founding, FF Scala became the first serious text face in the FontFont library. On the 20th anniversary of its creation we revisit the story of FF Scala and its companion FF Scala Sans with a new microsite . Read more about the design process from Martin Majoor , get an overview of all the available styles and weights, and see the typefaces in real-world use
NeubauLaden Fonts Austrian born, Berlin based designer Stefan Gandl formed Neubau in 2001 before taking the world by storm with the release of two bestselling books “Neubau Welt” (2005) and “Neubau Modul” (2007). In 2008 Neubau exhibited “Neubauism” a perspicacious, kinetic journey through the world of Neubau opened by legendary designer Wim Crouwel in the Netherlands. Taking a cue from Crouwel’s grid-play and the modernist spirit of the Bauhaus school, Gandl creates alphabets that defy traditional typographic conventions and celebrate the stark, imperfect letters made by machines.
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New Foundry: NeubauLaden
By Abi Huynh Last year Mathieu Christe and Berton Hasebe wrote a very thorough article detailing the general day to day of the Type and Media masters program. With this article we hope to outline an historical overview of the course and provide a brief look at the final project typefaces from the 08/09 class.
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The Right Type of Education
I’ve been a fan of Billy Baumann’s work (and that of his partner at Delicious Design League , Jason Teegarden-Downs) ever since I first discovered him on Gigposters ; his posters always combine hand-lettering, images and type in novel ways. As you can see, Billy tends to use a pretty restricted type palette; however, he writes that when he was first getting started, T-26 really helped form his conception of display type, and that he still admires them very much
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posters by Delicious Design League
Here’s Sudtipos ’ newest font, Sinfonieta – another collaboration between calligrapher Angel Koziupa and type designer Alejandro Paul – to illustrate how perfectly their scripts complement packaging design, and specifically food packaging. To see many more images of Sudtipos types in use, check out their Facebook page .
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Sinfonieta: Perfect for Packaging
Reviewed by James Puckett I was excited when Taschen announced the first volume of Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles , described as “This exuberant selection of typographic fonts and styles traces the modern evolution of the printed letter” * . Such language, including the title, is disingenuous, because this book is not a history
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Type: A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles
Александра Королькова – also known as Alexandra Korolkova – studied under ParaType’s Alexander Tarbeev and is now a type design and calligraphy instructor at various Moscow high schools. This week she brings us three very appealing typefaces as part of her MyFonts debut: Gorodets is a set of 60 hand-traced folk images from Russian woodcut art (specifically, the art of the town of Gorodets, near Nizhniy Novgorod on the Volga, about 400km east of Moscow), and is an excellent companion to many traditional European calligraphic scripts and perfect for wedding invitations and similarly formal projects when a bit of decoration is needed. Her second and third releases are actually much more than just a single font; each is a full family in its own right: Leksa Sans , is a slightly-stressed humanist sans in a variety of weights (each with accompanying italics)
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Alexandra Korolkova & the Leksa Superfamily