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FontShop is pleased to be a global reseller of Linotype’s Platinum Collection. The new series is a selection of classic typefaces from the Linotype Library optimized for modern use. In close cooperation with the original type designers, Linotype reworked and expanded typeface families to make them both technologically and aesthetically up to date. The new typeface families have large sets of harmonious weights. Some have new italic weights and often come complete with small caps and old style figures.

Trailer For Heroine, A New Typeface From Fountain

Handpicked Typefaces | Yves Peters | September 22, 2009
Type designers and foundries sometimes go to great lengths to have their latest typeface stand out amongst the many new releases. While expertly designed specimens are an ideal way to present and promote a new typeface or family, once in a while an animated specimen appears. We have seen the gracious trailer for Rui Abreu’s contem porary black letter Orbe, and now Fountain does it again for Heroine, a new typeface designed by Göran Söderström.

Heroine is inspired by Windsor, designed by Eleisha Pechey in 1905. As Göran explains: READ MORE.... http://fontfeed.com/archives/trailer-for-heroine-a-new-typeface-from-fountain/

The way Dutchman Jos Buivenga rose to prominence on the type scene is quite remarkable. For years, his online friends and fans could follow the development of his typefaces via his website, and download the results at no cost. When his one-man foundry exljbris began selling his first commercial typeface Museo through MyFonts last year, several weights were offered for free. The generosity paid off: Museo became a meteoric bestseller. Eighteen months, five typefaces and one bankrupt employer later, he finds himself a full time type designer — and doing very well, thank you. Meet Jos Buivenga, going with the flow on the river of life.

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Jos, you joined MyFonts in early 2008. By then, you had already created quite a following on your website and blog, where people could comment on your type design process and download beta versions of your fonts. When did it all start? Was there any kind of master plan behind it?
It all started back in 1994 with the wish to make a typeface of my own. I just wanted to see what it would feel like to use a font of my own on my first Mac. Of course this isn’t the best brief to start a font. So I considered making my first typeface, Delicious, to be just a learning process. I was completely new to type design, which is the main reason why it took me two years to create a font family that I was happy with. It sounds like a long time but it was a great experience, being in a creative process, doing highly concentrated work, exploring caveats and finding solutions. It never really crossed my mind to sell it because I didn’t know if it was good enough.

My second typeface, Fontin, which I began a decade later, still felt like a typographic exploration that I preferred to share rather than sell. Another reason for preferring to give it away was probably that I still didn’t consider myself a real type designer. After I had finished Fontin, my fonts got listed on several blogs. That’s when things really took off. I realized that people really liked my work, fortunately not only because I offered it for free. Site traffic started to build up and grew steadily year after year. At that stage I still worked full-time but the thought of selling some fonts to be able to work a day less each week began to occur more and more often.

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You are probably familiar with Michael Doret’s work without even knowing it. If you have seen his logo for the New York Knicks, or one of his many covers for Time Magazine, then you are familiar with the power and dynamism he has brought to the art of hand-drawn letterforms. Doret’s font foundry Alphabet Soup shows that his background in lettering brings a unique perspective to type design. We’re proud to offer the collection at FontShop.

In typographic circles north of the equator, these past few months will probably go down in history as the Summer of Scripts. Never before has such a rich crop of pointed pen strokes, cunning connections and stunning swashes graced our newsletters. But right now … maybe it’s our users’ reaction to all this opulence, maybe it’s the time of year: these past few weeks we have seen something of a renaissance of the practical and the legible. Which is why this edition of Rising Stars marks a return to good old sans and serif faces — for body text, for display or both (with one pomologically baroque exception). Enjoy.

The use of sample type in real life situations...

Times are pretty hard for many of us, economically speaking. But as far as MyFonts is concerned, that’s no reason to settle for Times — typographically speaking. Among our 62,530 fonts (give or take a few) from over 600 foundries, there are many useful and original typefaces at prices almost anyone can afford. We selected ten of them for you today: all starting at $10 or less, with further discounts if you order a family, or several fonts from the same foundry. Here’s our special anti-recession end-of-summer font selection, in no particular order.

Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases.Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview, compare and print the fonts you are interested in.
And the clou is: It does all that on an interactive table, using tangible objects to navigate and control actions, so the workflow is easy to understand - easy to grasp!

Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, has been at the forefront of graphic design in Latin America for decades. Today, one of that city’s most prominent forces in type design is Sudtipos, a remarkable type collective founded in 2001 by four experienced designers from the world of corporate and packaging design. This month’s interviewee is Sudtipos’ spokesman, who became famous for drawing and programming some of the most intricate script fonts ever digitized. Meet Alejandro “Ale” Paul, a man who likes to raise bars — and we don’t just mean chocolate bars.