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Documentary Film About American Sign Painters Currently in Production

Submitted by kensoliva : 29.Jul.2010 7.36pm

From the filmmakers' blog at http://signpaintermovie.blogspot.com/:

The Sign Painter movie is currently in Production as of March 2010. This documentary is about sign painters in America. Those who were and still are walking the streets and using their talent to get a message across. You see their work daily on windows, sandwich-boards, boats, cars, billboards, in businesses, playgrounds, farmers markets and even theme parks to name a handful of spots.

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CUSTOM TYPE: LAC custom typeface

Submitted by typetogether : 26.Jul.2010 8.34am

LAC Sans was developed, in collaboration with design studio FM milano, for a pitch for the new identity program of the Center of Contemporary Art in Lugano, Italy. It is a vast project embracing many different sectors of the center, from music to theater to art. Therefore FM milano's idea was to connect all these entities with a unique typeface that would give the center recognisibility and character. The first weight to be developed was a display version to be used on posters, in the logotype and other promotional material. The typeface would then, if accepted, be expanded into a broader range of weights.

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FREE FONT: More FREE high quality fonts

Submitted by typetogether : 23.Jul.2010 7.03am

Tan.

More high quality fonts from TypeTogether
ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

The OpenType version, full commercial licence, of Rue Display Semibold can be downloaded free of charge. As a part of TypeTogether's permanent efforts to promote and encourage high quality typography we are distributing this FREE COMMERCIAL LICENCE of Rue Display Semibold, the beautiful organic sans serif designed by Winnie

DOWNLOAD: http://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=carro/getFreeFont_3
USE CODE TO DOWNLOAD: 5bd6cdcc

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Bold Monday type specimen - order your copy now

Submitted by boldmonday : 20.Jul.2010 8.03am

It’s here! The first official Bold Monday type specimen: A5 format, 64 beautifully designed pages, produced in two colour offset printing, glue bound and showing all of our typeface designs including custom work and upcoming releases.

With guest contributions by Donald Beekman, Liza Enebeis & Marc van der Heijden, Koen Geurts, Bart de Haas, Léon&Loes, Max Kisman, René Knip, Dennis Koot, Indra Kupferschmid, Tobias Peier, R2 and Jesse Skolnik.

Order your copy now at http://www.boldmonday.com/en/specimen/

Bold Monday
www.boldmonday.com

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New FontFont: FF Suhmo

Submitted by Ivo : 19.Jul.2010 9.10am


FF Suhmo is inspired by classic Egyptian and typewriter fonts such as Courier and American Typewriter, which feature headline and text use. This impressive duality was a guideline for the concept of Alex Rütten.

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205 : a new type foundry ! (and books publisher!)

Submitted by DamienGautier : 19.Jul.2010 1.28am

205 is a new type foundry founded in 2010 by Damien Gautier (Lyon, France)
Almost display fonts but not only...
Opentype fonts, it's sure! With opentype features (ligatures, alternate glyphs, etc.)

Already available :
– Amiral : a strong stencil typeface (uppercases only)
– Bloo : a four cut font in homage to "Codex80" by Jean Alessandrini
– Caporal : an elegant stencil font
– Colonel : a four cut stencil font – uppercases and lowercases – : cut, rounded and sharp angles
– LeChaufferie : a display font with 1200 ligatures !
– Robin : a dingbats font with infinite possibilities thanks to 5000 kerning pairs

Éditions Deux-Cent-Cinq publishes also books on typography, architecture and contemporary photography.
Visit the website : http://www.editions205.fr

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Iconic Fonts from Monotype Imaging Part of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

Submitted by danielle.norton... : 16.Jul.2010 7.30am

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has announced that fonts from its Helvetica®, Frutiger®, Futura® and Garamond typeface families are shipping with CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5, the newest professional graphics applications suite from Corel Corp. Comprising 32 fonts from the Linotype® collection, the designs have also marked their debut in any CorelDRAW product.

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Monotype Imaging Adds the ITC New Esprit Family to its ITC Typeface Collection

Submitted by danielle.norton... : 16.Jul.2010 7.03am

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has released the 16-font ITC New Esprit™ typeface family into the ITC® typeface collection. Available in both text and display versions, ITC New Esprit can be viewed, licensed and downloaded from the company’s Fonts.com, ITCFonts.com and Linotype.com e-commerce sites.

“ITC New Esprit beautifully blends precision and legibility with personality and lyricism,” said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Monotype Imaging. “It’s also an exceptionally comprehensive typeface family.”

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Condiment

Submitted by Ale Paul : 15.Jul.2010 1.09pm

We are proud to announce the release of Condiment, the lastest Sudtipos addition to your typographic design recipes.

About Condiment.
Condiment adds flavor to your design. The new font by Koziupa and Paul’s is prepared of powdered soft shapes mixed with brush-drawn letters and tasty alternates conveniently tucked into the OpenType programming (for those programs that support such functionality.) The font includes many alternates and support for Latin-based languages (Including Central European, Baltic, Turkish and Welsh).

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Canada Type Font Collection Now Available from Ascender

Submitted by billdavis : 12.Jul.2010 11.51pm

Elk Grove Village, IL -- July 13, 2010 -- Ascender Corporation is pleased to announce that the Canada Type font design studio has come to a font distribution agreement with Ascender.

Rebecca Alaccari and Patrick Griffin founded the Toronto-based Canada Type back in early 2004. Since its establishment, Canada Type has created a variety of high-quality typefaces popular with design professionals and creative enthusiasts. The Canada Type fonts have appeared on everything from large corporate projects to small personal design work.

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