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Archived New Products: 1st Quarter
Archived New Products
Here we store previous new products, this gives you the chance to take a look at any of the exciting new foundries,
fonts and products that you may have missed out on:
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Fatchair is a small independent type foundry started in 1995 by designer Alan Rimmer. It has been commercially successful in the past few years with its eclectic range of fonts, from gritty, display typefaces through to legible, clean typefaces suitable for text and information displays. Among the most successful is the large Informatic family, which has sold all over the world.
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Sigma is the latest release from Julian Morey of Club 21, and is his take on one of the earliest forms of sans-serif typeface designs "letter-press Grotesque". Although there are several well known versions of Grotesque available, Morey felt none retained the original personality of hot-metal. Sigma is a revival that allows designers to put that feel of hot-metal back into the digital page.
Available as a three weight family, used together they are surprisingly dynamic and versatile and are suitable for both headline and body copy.
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A little experimentation and two years spent incubating in a drawer led to a happy outcome for George Ryan’s elegant serif design, Givens Antiqua. This gracious and highly readable family of four weights offers small caps, three weights of companion italics, and distinctive swash caps for the italic designs.
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The Slate typeface family has long been considered a valuable communications tool. Now a suite of condensed weights adds even more versatility to this elegant design. Designed by Slate’s creator Rod McDonald, Slate Condensed comes in six weights, from Light to Black.
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Font Garden has been online since 1999 and made fonts since 2001. Font Garden is a one person foundry and all fonts are hand drawn by its founder, Ellinor Rapp or by customers and friends. Handwritings are so exciting since there aren't two that look exactly alike - they are like fingerprints but have the ability to express moods and personality.
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FF Meta Serif is available in four weights: Book, Medium, Bold and Black, each with Italics. All styles include Small Caps, lining and oldstyle figures in proportional and tabular widths, and a range of arrows and other symbols. We highly recommend the OpenType versions (OTand Pro) for easy access to all these glyphs and other features like extra ligatures, case-sensitive punctuation, and support for Eastern European languages (in the Pro version). the extra benefit of FF Meta Serif is its close relationship to its sans serif sister. The two families can be mixed in the same line and one can be used to accentuate the other.
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Blambot is the foundry of type designer and illustrator Nate Piekos. Browse through this exciting collection of designs created for and inspired by comic book lettering by clicking on the link.
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Intellecta Design is a Brazilian type foundry that specializes in typographical research and revivals of ancient typefaces and handwriting styles. Many of Intellecta Design’s fonts are based on research of historical churches, museums and similar institutions – or from detailed study of very old Brazilian documents.
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Wilton Foundry was created by Robbie de Villiers in 2003. Years ago, Robbie read an article in U&lc magazine about a reading and comprehension test using Times New Roman, Gill Sans, and Helvetica. This article, combined with extensive training in calligraphy, fueled him to focus on typography and its role in design communications. His fascination and love lie with the challenge of designing fonts that are beautiful not just as individual letters, but in the combinations that form words. He considers it a huge privilege to design fonts that become messengers of both small and large thinking.
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Discourse Type was set up in summer 2007 and influences include the type designer Herb Lubalin, graphic designers Non-Format & Build and just about everything else. It's first release, Diglossia Family, is now available to buy.
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Studiocharlie works in product design, graphics, type design and video. They design typographic fonts. They are sometimes developed from signs and letters linked to their graphic and comunication projects, whilst others are the object of specific research. In general they develop fonts for traditional typographic use like word processing, or more “playful” fonts, for titles, logos and contemporary graphics, and dingbat fonts. Three people founded Studiocharlie in 2002, and work on the development of all the team’s projects: Gabriele Rigamonti, Carla Scorda, Vittorio Turla.
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Insigne was founded as DooleyType in 2004 with the release of the typeface Biortec. Since then, Insigne has released a wide variety of quality typefaces, including sans serifs, scripts, serifs and experimental forms. Insigne prides itself on its unique and affordable fonts. Insigne is the foundry of Jeremy Dooley. A world traveler, Jeremy has traveled extensively and lived in both Europe and the Middle East. In 2005, Jeremy graduated with a master’s degree in graphic design from Savannah College of Art and Design. Jeremy currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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