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We are very proud to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the launch of Village.

Village is a type co-op; the union of eleven young type foundries who have decided to go it alone, together. vllg.com is the information channel and boutique storefront for this group of equals.

In the past twelve months, our ranks have grown from the original 9 members - Feliciano Type Foundry, Joshua Darden, Karsten Luecke Type Foundry, Lux Typographics, Orange Italic, Thirstype, Type Initiative, Underware, and Village - to include Kontour (Sibylle Hagmann) of Houston (originally Switzerland), and Klim (Kris Sowersby) of New Zealand.

Babies have been born, weddings celebrated, and 15 new type families have been released in the past year.

Thanks to everyone for your support and patronage.

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Section, The Book is now available

Cultural history of the development of Greg Lindy's Section typeface family, with essays by Lindy and Trevin Pinto.

http://vllg.com/products/Lux/SectionBook/

[License the Section family and receive a free copy.]

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Fakir from Underware is now available!

Fakir, a blackletter with a holy kiss, is a contemporary interpretation of broadnib textura with lots of broken, edgy, interrupted strokes. (Try to sit on a bed of nails and you'll know why fakirs like to read this kind of fonts...)

http://vllg.com/Underware/Fakir/mudTyper+Weights/

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Is Not take-away 01: Young & Free

The first portable issue of Australian posterzine "Is Not" is now available from Village. All types used in Is Not are from Underware, and they put together this magazine version of the poster.

Village is the exclusive American distributor of Is Not take-away.

http://vllg.com/products/Underware/IsNotTakeAway01/

[Through the end of September 2006, any order from vllg,com over $150 will receive a free copy.]

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An offer you can't refuse!

There are only two more weeks in our specially-priced springtime offer of recent display fonts: 5 type families from 5 foundries.

Spring 2006 Display set:
/ Bello Pro from Underware (Connecting script with OpenType ligatures and small caps)
/ Garda from Feliciano Type Foundry (3 variants of classic capitals)
/ Kaas by Hugo d'Alte for Thirstype (Silver prize in Finland's Grafia competition!)
/ Local Gothic from Orange Italic (with revolutionary OpenType randomization)
/ Mavis from Village (2 variants with subtle alternate-replacement)

Get these five families for only $229, one-third off the combined price of $353. Offer available through July 31, 2006.

http://vllg.com/offers.php

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On the horizon / / "Feijoa", the debut release from Klim / "Apex Compact", a space-saving version of the popular face / Limited release of "Stag" from Orange Italic / "Subtext", a stencil text face from Village / "Odile" poster from Kontour / More T-shirts and a deluxe version of the "For Like Ever" poster

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With hot and sticky summer wishes from New York.

Village
168 Second Avenue #253
New York NY 10003
USA

telephone ++1 646 654 1506
fax ++1 646 429 8597

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