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New FontFonts: FF Basic Gothic and FF Massive
Family Updates: FF Good, FF Fontesque Display, and more
New OT, Pro, Offc, and Web Releases: FF Bau, FF Clan, and more
Introducing FontShop’s New Blog: Stay current with FontShop news, releases, and promotions
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The latest FontFont release boasts two new type families: the self-explanatory FF Basic Gothic, and clubbing face on steroids FF Massive. Also, thirty popular FontFont families were converted to OpenType, many in Pro format, and eleven of those were also extended with new styles or Cyrillic/Greek character sets. Furthermore, 23 FontFont families joined the ranks of the Offc and Webfonts, making typography on the web and in office applications even more versatile and diverse.
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from Hannes von Döhren and
Livius F. Dietzel
Due to its popularity online, Verdana has effectively become the basic sans serif. Yet in print it tends to look too heavy and a little unwieldy. As a response to this FontFont releases FF Basic Gothic. Influenced by the early sans serif typefaces of the 19th century and developed for today’s highest standards, it is a sans serif optimized for maximum legibility. With its functional, basic look, it is willful, but pleasant at the same time. Inspired by the unique letter forms of Gill Sans and Antique Olive, designers Hannes von Döhren and Livius F. Dietzel searched for exceptional yet legible proportions. At the same time, the letters are stripped down to their basic forms, with precise curves and straight lines, making Basic Gothic extremely versatile for a multitude of applications. The type family performs especially well in small sizes, both in print and on the screen.
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See FF Basic Gothic Regular ›
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from Donald Beekman
FF Massive is a typeface system designed by Amsterdam based designer Donald Beekman. With original sketches dating back as far as 2001, FF Massive already has a long history and has since been used in many DBXL designs. It is suitable for logos, flyers, posters and magazine headlines. Be it drum’n’bass, techno or trance, FF Massive has a distinct musical background. With its 2010 release the FF Massive OT family was expanded with an extra outline version into eight different Open Type fonts, divided in four variations which together form a versatile typographic system. The eight different FF Massive variations enable the user to compose a number of combinations, which can lead to surprising results, especially with the use of contrasting colours. The fonts come with a PDF manual (1.4 MB) explaining how the FF Massive type system is best employed. Enjoy!
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from Christian Schwartz
The OpenType release of FF Bau is highly anticipated by lovers of classic grotesque faces. This earliest direct ancestor to Helvetica, originally simply known as Grotesk, was first introduced around 1880. Christian Schwartz updated the family for contemporary needs without rationalizing away the spirit and warmth of the original. Its double-storey ‘g’, and the lowercase ‘a’ that keeps its tail in all weights distinguish it from the ubiquitous and overused Helvetica. The new version offers additional stylistic alternatives — a straight-legged capital ‘R’, a single-storey lowercase ‘g’ in the roman styles, and a slanted double-storey ‘a’ in the italic styles. Most interestingly a hooked lowercase ‘a’, ‘f’, ‘r’ and ‘s’, and alternate numerals lend Stylistic set 4 that typical vintage feel. Lining figures are now default, with oldstyle figures still included, and tabular variants too, as well as superiors, subscripts and real fractions. Pro fonts come with extended language support.
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from Łukasz Dziedzic
What was boosted from 9 styles to 60 styles? FF Good. Łukasz Dziedzic’s versatile straight-sided sans serif has been radically overhauled. The original incarnation of this contemporary alternative for News/Trade Gothic was a rather small family of three weights in three widths, with no italics. The new version however comes in five weights ranging from Light to Black, in Condensed, Regular, and Wide widths, all with matching italics, and small caps for both roman and italic styles.
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from Nick Shinn
The FF Fontesque OpenType make-over presents an interpretation of the typeface that is more sophisticated than the original grunge-era rendering, with carefully refined drawing of the glyphs. There is a contextual alternate for every character, including all spaces, accented characters, punctuation, figures, ligatures, and so on — meaning every character is represented by two different glyphs.
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from György Szönyei
The FF Archian family originated from Hungarian designer György Szönyei’s desire to create a geometric typeface using only vertical and horizontal elements, without any curves. The first-born of the family, FF Archian Normal, was the result of playful experimentation with form and function. The other styles followed as variations on a theme, each with their own, different inspiration — architecture, painting, and fine arts. For the OpenType re-release the family was extended with two more styles, Amphora and Labirintus, plus a Stencil version that allows the user to create two-colour effects via the simple use of Stylistic Sets.
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from Just van Rossum and
Erik van Blokland
The original freeform handwritten typefaces FF Erikrighthand and FF Justlefthand were the result of experiments with software — that was new at the time — and years of indoctrination on how to write. More than simple handwriting fonts, the original release already featured small caps, oldstyle figures, and ligatures. For the new versions the character shapes have been carefully reviewed and reworked, and new features were added. Kerning was improved, and connections and ligatures provide an improved text image. Furthermore the fonts now offer extended language support and localised forms.
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As 2011 gets rolling, we’re happy to announce the launch of a
new FontShop blog.
Written by the San Francisco team, we’ll spotlight new website features,
common support issues, and other operational miscellany. Additionally, we’ll
showcase longer articles and extended type samples which don’t fit neatly in
our newsletter format.
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