I designed Furioso as a slight variation on Albertus, a font designed by Berthold Wolpe in the 1930’s, as a senior project in graphic design at Yale University. At that time, Albertus (the trademarked name, owned by the Monotype Corporation Limited) had not been digitally executed. Now, there are several commercial versions of Albertus in several weights available.
However, because The Prisoner TV series used Albertus with a modified “e” and dotless “i” that weren’t available in any of the commercial versions, I’ve been bombarded with requests for the full font. For a few years, I’ve received shareware payments of about $12 to $15 for the font, but it’s too difficult to support the font at that rate; also, I hate reporting and tracking income in $12 increments for my taxes.
Therefore, I am releasing a newly encoded version of Furioso, the full version (not just the Titling that I had released before) using Fontographer 4. There’s a Mac TrueType and Type 1 version, and a PC TrueType (.TTF) version.
I ask that you please DO NOT send money to me. Instead, if you use the font at all, please send a $10 check or money payable to National Public Radio to National Public Radio, Washington, DC 20236. Please indicate in an accompanying letter that the contribution is being made in honor of the late Berthold Wolpe, one of the great type designers. If you’re overseas, please contribute the equivalent of US$10 in Wolpe’s name to whatever local public (i.e. mostly citizen funded) news radio service or station in your country or region.
