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Premiéra is a typeface specifically designed to work in small sizes. A large x-height and short ascenders and descenders make it ideal for books and newspapers. Through an exhaustive process of testing readability on test prints, the face developed straight lines and sharp forms. These features not only work to make the type clear, but also give Premiéra a strong personality whether you read it in text or headlines.
The Modern typeface classification is usually associated with Didones and display faces that often have too much contrast for text use. The Ingeborg family was designed with the intent of producing a Modern face that was readable at any size. Its roots might well be historic, but its approach is very contemporary. The three text weights (Regular, Bold, and Heavy) are functional and discreet while the Display weights (Fat and Block) catch the reader’s eye with a dynamic form and a whole lot of ink on the paper. The family includes a boatload of extras like unicase alternates, swash caps, and a lined fill.
After the successful Baka and Baka Too, Neil Summerour took brush to paper for another script with an expressive personality.
Freight Sans Pro
and Freight Text Pro
We’re very pleased to announce that Freight, the perennially popular type system, now has Pro versions for all the Text and Sans fonts. Small caps, figure styles, and stylistic alternates are now much more efficiently accessed via OpenType, making the family even more appealing for publication design.
The new Freight speaks nearly all Latin based languages, and small caps, figure styles, and stylistic alternates are now much more efficiently accessed via OpenType, making the family even more appealing for publication design.
An expanded and enhanced version of Mostra, Mark Simonson’s tribute to Italian Art Deco lettering. This OpenType version adds lowercase letters and 20 stylistic sets for easy access to the hundreds of alternate characters.
See more Mostra Nuova. Download the comprehensive specimen. (436KB PDF)
A revised and expanded version of Refrigerator. This OpenType version includes a new weight (Regular) and loads of alternate characters that can be used to create endless variations of the “block letter” vernacular style on which it is based.
See more Refrigerator Deluxe. Download the comprehensive specimen. (148MB PDF)
Full of energy, cheek, and mischief, Malambo is named for a traditional Argentine dance. It’s one of five new perfect-for-packaging fonts from Alejandro Paul’s Sudtipos.
New FontFonts: FF Duper
Martin Wenzel’s letter carousel turns larger rounds for authentic looking handwritten type.
Focus On FontStructors – Peter De Roy (typerider)
The FontFeed talks to Peter De Roy, a graphic design teacher who uses FontStruct in his typography course.
ScreenFonts: Gamer, Love Happens, Bright Star, The Informant, Fame
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Bracketed Modern Display & Text
This subclass of high contrast serifs are distinguished from Didones by their bracketed serifs. We’ve separated them into two lists for large and small settings.
Psychedelia
The Psychedelic visual arts movement of the 1960s counter culture complemented psychedelic rock music. Think hippies, bell bottoms, lava lamps, pop music, the Beatles, and free love.
Typewriter
Fonts inspired by the letter styles of manual and electric typewriters, from the stark modernism of Courier to typefaces that emulate an uneven strike and dirty ribbon.
Big news from behind the scenes at FontShop.com: we’ve built a new search engine to provide more accurate results. The new search is in beta mode right now, and we’d love your feedback.
You can enable the new search engine by specifying a variable in the URL. Let’s say you wanted to search for FF Meta. To view search results with the new search engine, just add &newsearch=1 to the URL.
http://www.fontshop.com/search/?q=FF+Meta&x=0&y=0&newsearch=1
You may not notice much right off, but the new search engine should have provided you with more accurate results sorted in a more relevant way. Any searches you make from that point forward will continue to use the new engine. This preference is saved in your browser cookie so you won’t need to enter the special URL until you want to revert to the old search engine.
You can disable the new search and use our old search engine by changing the 1 to a 0:
http://www.fontshop.com/search/?q=FF+Meta&x=0&y=0&newsearch=0
Smarter Results: Our current search (left) does a decent job of displaying matching products, but the new search (right) offers more helpful results with relevant content, FontLists, and families at the top.
We hope you’ll appreciate the improvements in our new search engine. Please note that in this pre-release stage there’s always a chance of unexpected results, but do contact us or post a comment with any feedback you have.
Berling™ Nova Sans with Berling™ Nova
Clean and forthright, yet full of character, Berling Nova Sans joins Berling Nova to create a modern superfamily. Inspired by the original Berling type, a 1950s masterpiece from Swedish designer Karl-Erik Forsberg, Örjan Nordling and Fredrik Andersson developed a family that is true to its roots while relevant for contemporary work.
Frutiger® Serif with Frutiger® Next
Frutiger Serif is a re-envisioning of Meridien, a typeface first released by Deberny & Peignot during the 1950s. Working closely with Adrian Frutiger, Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi expanded the original metal type version of Meridien® into a new digital family of 20 variants. Renamed Frutiger Serif, this up-to-date Meridien has new weights, widths, and styles that correspond better with several other of Frutiger’s designs. Just as Meridien has always been a fine choice for text settings, Frutiger Serif works brilliantly for large amounts of text and also at small point sizes. Its added versatility is revealed when used in combination with other families, particularly original Frutiger®, Frutiger Next®, Univers® and the new Linotype Univers®.
Really No. 2 is a redesign and update of Linotype Really, a typeface that Gary Munch first designed in 1999. The new Really No. 2 offers seven weights (Light to Extra Bold), each with an Italic companion. Though it shares the strong stroke contrast of Didones, Really’s subtly oblique axis and sturdy serifs make it a no-nonsense typeface for text.
Developed by Polish designer Franciszek Otto, Waza is a script revived from the Baroque epoch, particularly an etching by Wilhelm Hondius (Hondt), the Dutch court engraver for the Polish king, Ladislaus IV. While the tendriled caps are what give Waza its distinctive, ornate character, there are tamer alternate glyphs for less ostentatious settings.
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