Compendium, new Sudtipos font

Compendium

Don not forget to grab the Compendium PDF with wonderful photography by Gonzalo Aguilar

“Compendium is a sequel to my Burgues font from 2007. Actually it is more like a prequel to Burgues. Before Louis Madarasz awed the American Southeast with his disciplined corners and wild hairlines, Platt Rogers Spencer, up in Ohio, had laid down a style all his own, a style that would eventually become the groundwork for the veering calligraphic method that was later defined and developed by Madarasz.

Typophile Film Fest 4, St Petersburg

Punchcut presents the Typophile Film Fest 4 at ATypI ’08 St. Petersburg. The Film Fest is an unequaled selection of short typographic films hailing from designers in Portugal, The Netherlands, Austria, Canada and the US. The films are a mashup of motion design, typographic animation and short stories including broadcast motion design, documentaries and typographic eye candy from Trollbäck + Company, Strange Attractors, Heebok Lee, Nick Shinn, Juan Leguizamon as well as exclusive interviews and cuts from the acclaimed documentary film Helvetica.

THANK YOU FONTSHOP

The Fonts of Summer! - Font Bros Update!

Warm Summer Greetings!

As we rush to cram in the last fun of Summer, we delight in some fresh new arrivals at Font Bros!

Pink Broccoli - Our friends at Pink Broccoli have been very busy creating some hip mod style 1960s typefaces you’re sure to dig! Check ’em out at: http://www.fontbros.com/pink_broccoli_new.php

Harold’s Fonts - Harold has expanded his ever popular collection of rubber stamp style fonts with the Charter Family you’re sure to love! - Check ’em out at: http://www.fontbros.com/harolds_new.php

Fontalicious - We continue to bring back even more great Fontalicious classic fonts updated in OpenType! - Check ’em out at: http://www.fontbros.com/fontalicious_new.php

Adobe Acrobat 9 is now available for Middle Eastern languages

These dedicated versions of Acrobat 9 gather all the characteristics of the US versions plus enhanced and advanced features to handle Middle Eastern languages (Right to Left direction, non-Roman text, Hindi digits, etc.)

Grenoble, France — August 5, 2008 — Global IT giant, Adobe Systems Incorporated, and multilingual software publisher, WinSoft, have jointly released today the Middle Eastern versions of Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Standard and Professional. These releases represent a significant upgrade that transforms the process of creating and sharing electronic documents for the Middle Eastern users.

ReType releases 'Lasagna'

ReType announce the release of Yomar Augusto’s ’Lasagna’ typeface.

http://www.re-type.com

’Lasagna’ began as an experimental font used by Yomar Augusto in CDs and posters. It is an ironically geometric typeface suitable for contemporary design work.

Yomar Augusto is a brasilian graphic designer, graduated in the Type & Media’s Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
He has been involved in two Rojo ArtStorm projects and been published by Taschen in ’Contemporary Graphic Design’.
Recently, he took part in the Letter Forest art show, which featured experiments in calligraphy, painting, drawing and printmaking, and was held at Nanzuka Underground Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Yomar lives in Rotterdam and is currently working at 180Amsterdam in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

New Specimen Book from P22 Type Foundry

Font enthusiasts rejoice! P22 type foundry and P22 Editions announce P22’s first major type specimen book. This book includes all the fonts from each P22 division- P22 type foundry, International House of Fonts (IHOF), The Sherwood Collection, Lanston Type Company, and the Rimmer Type Foundry. The book is 258 pages and is divided by foundry. It is indexed and shows off the fonts in a variety of settings as they were intended to be seen- in print!

The specimen book is being printed on-demand for $20 plus shipping. A link to place your order and images from the book can be found at http://www.p22.com/products/specimenbook.html

Village: New foundry! New releases! New version! New packages! New product! / 2008.07.22

Hi!
Hot greetings from Gotham, where the night is actually very dark.

We have so much new stuff, that we’ll just get right to it...

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New foundry: Incubator

Village is pleased to announce the Incubator; our home for debut releases from young designers. The Incubator aims to help designers develop their typographic voices with gentle guidance from Village’s other members.

The Incubator project was officially launched on Village’s 3-year anniversary last week.

http://vllg.com/Incubator/

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New release: Router by Jeremy Mickel

Ascender Corp. Announces New Fonts Licensed From Chank & Typodermic

Elk Grove Village, IL — July 18, 2008 — Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, today announced a new collection of fonts licensed from Chank Co. and Typodermic. The fonts are available immediately for purchase and instant download on both the www.AscenderFonts.com/ and www.FontMarketplace.com e-commerce websites. Additionally, Ascender will be offering this extensive font collection to its OEM/ISV customer base of hardware and software developers who license fonts to include with their products.

10 Downing Street petition against the removal to storage of the Type Museum's Collections

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop the
proposed move into storage of the Type Archive, from its
present home at the Type Museum, London

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/typemuseum/

The Type Museum has successfuly collected a large proportion of
all the definitive historical materials relating to the art,
design & manufacturing production in Britain of the typefaces
in which the world’s languages are communicated and recorded.
This collection has been closed for two years and needs
re-opening to public access, educational and scholarly use –
not broken up or put into storage as is curently being
proposed. The Type Museum’s collections need exhibiting,

New Prospero Pro font marks ten years of font releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Stevens Point, Wis. (July 8, 2008) — Independent digital type designer Tim Rolands has released a new cross-platform OpenType font called Prospero Pro to mark the tenth anniversary of his first public font release.

The first publicly released font from Tim Rolands came just over ten years ago – a Nicolas Jenson-inspired oldstyle Roman called Prospero and distributed as shareware. Prospero Pro, a brand new OpenType remake of that early font includes completely redrawn letterforms that capture the character and spirit of the original while incorporating many improvements born of experience.