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| Featured this month: a revitalization of a favorite type family, profiles of two innovative foundries, a profile on Monotype Imaging's Jim Wasco, and three new type foundries on Fonts.com. The header typeface is the Neue Aachen design by Jim Wasco. | | ||||||||
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| The Neue Aachen design is a revitalization of the popular Aachen typeface originally designed by Colin Brignall for Letraset in the late 1960s. Each decade saw the typeface made available for emergent technologies; however, apart from the addition of a medium weight in the late 1970s, the Aachen family was limited in its breadth of available weights. Despite this limitation in styles, Aachen’s bold weight and short slab serifs made it a natural choice for display typography. Realizing that more weights would dramatically increase Aachen’s range of use, Jim Wasco, a senior type designer at Monotype Imaging, developed Neue Aachen as a family of nine weights with corresponding italics. Neue Aachen is available as a suite of OpenType Pro fonts, providing ligatures, fractions, alternates and an extended character set for many Central and Eastern European languages.
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| Based in Los Angeles, Aerotype produces a range of beautiful and technically impressive typefaces. From the tattoo-inspired Keepsake design and the Stay True design, to the wood type stylings of the Thunderhouse face, Aerotype fonts inspire designers to push the limits of their typographic compositions. Keepsake is a family of five fonts which can be combined together to create a variety of eye-catching effects. Each font is enhanced with OpenType features – including beautiful ligatures and alternates – which help craft rich, dramatic compositions. Explore combinations of the five Keepsake fonts to add depth and variety to your designs. All Aerotype fonts are available for licensing through Fonts.com. | |
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| Wilton Type Foundry formed as a result of founder Robbie de Villiers’ passion for calligraphy and fine typography. Founded in 2003, Wilton Type Foundry’s products are suited for a myriad of applications – from large-scale display type to precise text faces – and Robbie de Villiers has won a wide range of awards and nominations for his typographic work. Illustrated above are various styles from the Cyan Complete Family Pack, a typeface family inspired by classic Roman inscription styles. Additionally, the face features a full lowercase set of letterforms for flexibility in designs. All Wilton Type Foundry’s products are available from Fonts.com for Web and desktop licensing. | |
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| Jim Wasco, a second-generation lettering designer, began his lifelong passion for lettering when his father taught him calligraphy at the age of 12. He started with a reproduction of the book Operina, by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, and an instruction sheet for Chancery Cursive (based on Arrighi’s Operina typeface). Jim’s father taught him about lettering, proper spacing, letter proportions and balance. It was this knowledge, along with his illustration skills, that formed the fundamentals for a California-based type design business Jim founded in 1974. Early career highlights include assisting Jim Parkinson with his alphabet design for Rolling Stone magazine. Jim Wasco explains, “I realized I had a gift of understanding letterforms. These things came to me naturally as common sense.” Read more… | |
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| Help us celebrate the new Fonts.com – and our new logo – by enjoying a complementary Harmonia Sans Sample Pack. This free download includes three weights of the Harmonia Sans typeface family, a design which has become one of Monotype’s best selling offerings released in recent years. Designed by Jim Wasco, the Harmonia Sans typeface family is a graceful blending of contemporary geometric sans serif lettershapes and classic calligraphic proportions. Consisting of 17 different stylings, Wasco undertook the design of the Harmonia Sans typeface with a single goal in mind. He recalls, “I wanted to create a simple and legible typeface that pulled from my favorite aspects of classic geometric sans designs, such as Futura and ITC Avant Garde Gothic.” Now you can enjoy three styles of the Harmonia Sans typeface family for free, no purchase necessary. Just add it to your cart, download and enjoy. If you like it, help us spread the word. But don’t hesitate: the Harmonia Sans Sample Pack is only available until July 17th! | | | |||||||
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| John Bomparte began his love of type design at college, inspired by the rich diversity of transfer lettering styles available from Letraset and Zipatone. His type design experience expanded enormously while working with Ed Benguiat at the legendary Photo-Lettering Inc. In 2006, Bomparte started his own foundry, producing extraordinary display types in an eclectic range of styles. Above is the Black Swan design, a blackletter style with a corresponding expert set of beautifully-ornamented ligatures. Learn more… | | Founded in 1990 by Joan Barjau, Enric Jardí, Laura Meseguer and José Manuel Urós, Type-ø-Tones publishes a range of typefaces by both the founders and several other designers. The Wilma design, above, is a set of 19 fonts designed to be combined together to create dazzling typographic effects. As well as the base form, the Wilma typeface family provides fill, inline, and shadow fonts which pair to enhance the visual depth of typographic treatments. Learn more… | | One paragraph isn't enough to begin to cover the achievement's of Neil Summerour's foundry, Positype. With over 60 published typefaces (over 500 fonts) and a client list of well known brands and top companies, Positype’s output is as well regarded as it is high quality. Recently released is Air, a superfamily of 81 fonts in 3 widths; the face offers 9 weights with both italic and oblique forms, small caps, ligatures, old style figures, fractions, extensive language support and more. Learn more… | | ||||
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