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FontFont 10 Release Notes, april 1994 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° Release 10: FF Bodoni Classic™ FF Celeste™ FF Chelsea™ FF CrashBangWallop™ FF DuBrush™ 2 FF DuMoore™ FF Knobcheese™ FF Nebulae™ FF Providence™ FF Rekord™ ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° FF Bodoni Classic by Gert Wiescher Nearly all typefoundries have their own version of Bodoni, and at last FontShop is no exception. Gert Wiescher has been working for about two years on his Bodoni Classic, aiming to produce the “most classic” of all Bodonis. His design is authentically based on an original edition of the Manuale Tipografico, Giambattista Bodoni's master type specimen, published in 1818 (five years after his death) by his wife Margherita Bodoni in Parma, Italy. At the turn of the 19th century, Bodoni was one of the most renowned printers and typographers in Europe, whose typographic principles of cleanliness and balance are still an influence on many designers today. Bodoni was the first typefounder to design a straight-seriffed roman with a marked contrast in stroke weight. In comparison to the Bodoni redesigns of most other foundries during the last few decades, where compromises between Bodoni's design aesthetic and technical needs have resulted in hybrid results, Wiescher reflects the original typeface as faithfully as possible, complete with edges, angles, irregularities and idiosyncrasies intact. The result is a lively Bodoni with the rich aesthetic of a time in which letterforms were not determined by controlled curves and optimized baselines but by eye and hand. The family is completed by a collection of ornaments digitized from Bodoni’s original designs shown in the Manuale. Gert Wiescher began his graphic career as a street artist in Paris. Events in his life brought him, via Barcelona and Johannesburg, to his current home in Munich. In recent years he has headed his own advertising and design office, and has published several books on design and typography. FF Bodoni Classic Roman FF Bodoni Classic Italic FF Bodoni Classic Bold FF Bodoni Classic Bold Italic FF Bodoni Classic Ornaments FF 7125 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° FF Celeste and FF Celeste Caps by Chris Burke Designer Chris Burke classifies FF Celeste as a modern humanistic face. The stroke- weight contrast is less pronounced than in traditional models such as Walbaum, making FF Celeste more suitable for current digital typesetting and offset printing techniques, where high contrast is very accurately – perhaps too accurately – maintained. The letterforms are less rationalized and modular than the starkest modern faces, but are influenced by old-style letterforms even with some vestige of a calligraphic influence to provide a more readable dynamic. The serifs tend to the triangular and the italics harmonize well with the roman in tone and width. FF Celeste is a typeface for those designers who like the idea of a Bodoni or Walbaum, but look for a robust and readable text face which tempers the sobriety of the modern with friendlier old-face features. FF Celeste Regular FF Celeste Italic FF Celeste Bold FF Celeste Bold Italic FF 7632 FF Celeste Caps Regular FF Celeste Caps Italic FF Celeste Caps Bold FF Celeste Caps Bold Italic FF 7673 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° FF Chelsea by Frank Heine FF Chelsea is one of those unusual alphabets for which FontShop’s exclusive FontFont library is already renowned. This small caps font is designed by the young Stuttgart designer Frank Heine, whose 1992 "Remedy" design quickly became popular internationally. FF Chelsea is a “chiselled” face with wedge-shaped strokes. The letterform is influenced by handwriting and calligraphy, like many other typefaces from Heine. Especially attractive are the large range of ligatures and alternate characters which can be used to create interesting logos and headlines. To accommodate these, Heine has excluded some of the standard but seldom-used special characters, so you will need to use a keyboard utility to find all the special characters. Heine has designed three pictograms (icons) for telephone, fax and postal address, making FF Chelsea suitable for business documents. Frank Heine (30) lives in Stuttgart, where he studied at the art academy, concentrating upon type design. He has published several successful typeface designs. In March 1994 he started his own design firm, “U. O. R. G.” FF Chelsea Book FF Chelsea Bold FF 7630 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° FF CrashBangWallop by Rian Hughes FontShop has published several Rian Hughes typefaces: the code alphabet FF Identification, the 60's typeface FF Revolver and FF Rian’s Dingbats. His designs all display his special love for the world of comicbooks. This especially applies to FF CrashBangWallop, a face he drew in 1990 for the “SpeakEasy” comic. The typeface is available in two weights (each with an italic) plus a contoured and a highlight variant. As with all Hughes' typefaces, there are some surprises: little men, arrows, telephone symbols. Enjoy discovering them. This typeface comes complete with a Hughes-designed poster. Rian Hughes lives and works in London. His clients are mainly record companies and book and comic publishers. He decided to produce his own typeface designs when he realized that he could never find exactly the 'look' that he wanted. FontShop will be publishing other new Rian Hughes typefaces in the future. FF CrashBangWallop Light FF CrashBangWallop Light Italic FF CrashBangWallop Medium FF CrashBangWallop Medium Italic FF CrashBangWallop Contoured FF CrashBangWallop Highlight FF 7631 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° FF DuBrush 2, FF Du Moore by Dung van Meerbeeck Two years ago FontShop released the FF DuBrush package with typefaces derived from the brush strokes of well-known painters: Chirico, Duchamp, Gauguin and Turner. Now Belgian designer Dung van Meerbeeck has digitized three other handwritings from artists. FontShop offers them in two packages: FF DuBrush 2 with the brush strokes from George Mathieu and the Japanese painter Mifu and FF DuMoore based on an alphabet from British artist Henry Moore. Dung van Meerbeeck (35), was born in Vietnam and studied in Brussels at the Akademie La Cabre Typografie. He was one of the winners of the Second Belgian Design Awards sponsored by FontShop Benelux. At present he is working as senior designer at the Brussels firm “Design Board”. FF DuMathieu FF DuMifu FF 7629 FF DuMoore FF DuMoore Inline FF 7125 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° FF Knobcheese by Rian Hughes Rian Hughes described this design as "like a strong cheese, with knobs on".. The London designer recommends: “...best together with a cheap Burgundy”. FF Knobcheese is an unusual typeface reminding one of chunks of cheese with holes, with its circular inside spaces. And since Rian Hughes likes to design his faces to the last detail, it also contains the usual surprise tidbits such as a telephone symbol, cheese car, forefinger, sun and so on. This font is also supplied with a poster. FF Knobcheese Normal FF Knobcheese Outline FF Knobcheese Initials FF 7628 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° FF Nebulae by Luc(as) de Groot The FF Nebulae family consists of five alphabets with apparently accidental surface structures. In large sizes, the typefaces are challenging to read, but in small sizes surprisingly legible. FF Nebulae is based on a forthcoming FontFont sans serif text face. To increase the readability and have more fun with the typeface, you can overlap various Nebulae weights in different colours or tints within one setting. The Nebulae fonts have similar metrics, whatever member of Nebulae you use, wordlenght doesn’t change. Although the circular letter-components are economically constructed, the printer fonts still need a lot of memory space and the form of the fonts give Adobe Type Manager a hard time, as well as the making the rasterizers in laser output devices work for their living. Accordingly, anticipate that the fonts will print more slowly than usual. If you experience serious printing problems, the following may help: compose your type in Adobe Illustrator or Aldus Freehand, and convert the type to 'outlines'. Then either import the resulting EPS into your page-layout application or print directly from the graphics program. You may want to select the “split long paths” option. About the designer: Luc(as) de Groot, was born in Holland in 1963, and studied graphic design at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Since 1987 he has specialized in typographic problems and special typeface solutions, for such firms as Studio Dumbar and BRS Premsela Vonk. In 1993 he joined MetaDesign, Berlin, where he occasionally finds time for sleep between work, reading, writing and drawing. He admits to being obsessed by type. FF Nebulae one FF Nebulae two FF Nebulae three FF Nebulae four FF Nebulae three D FF 7633 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° FF Providence by Guy Jeffrey Nelson FF Providence and FF Providence Sans are designed by Guy Jeffrey Nelson, 25, a graphic designer and artist working with The Font Bureau, although he has already travelled widely in his work, and for a time worked on Spy magazine, New York. The Providence family was first drawn in 1987 for use in a comic book series – Providence Sans for the dialog, and the serif form for running narative. In 1994 the typefaces were completed with additional weights and dingbats, and named after the designer’s home town in Rhode Island, USA. FF Providence Roman FF Providence Italic FF Providence Bold FF Providence Bold Italic FF Providence Caps FF Providence Sans FF Providence Sans Bold FF Providence Dingbats FF 7627 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° FF Rekord by Martin Wenzel FF Rekord is the second typeface from Martin Wenzel (FF Marten) for the FontFont library. Martin grew up in Berlin and presently is studying graphic design in The Hague. FF Rekord is a completely musical typeface, inspired by the abbreviations and symbols used on sound equipment. The symbol character set contains all the pictograms a designer needs for record covers, posters and calendars, or other musically-oriented printed matter. The three alphabets also have music in their veins and seem to have spent a night in front of the loudspeakers at a techno disco. The starting point for Martin Wenzel’s work was the FontFont bestseller Meta+, to designer Erik Spiekermann’s astonishment: “He could have at least asked before destroying my typeface.” FF Rekord Book FF Rekord Black FF Rekord Caps FF Rekord Symbols FF 7634 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° 
