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Fresh news from Linotype with Frutiger Serif:

“Adrian Frutiger has earned great respect over many years as one of the world’s most prominent and talented typeface designers,” said Frank Wildenberg, managing director of Linotype GmbH. “It’s an honor to add Frutiger Serif to the family of Linotype typefaces that bears his name.”

“While Frutiger has designed some of the most widely used and aesthetically pleasing typefaces, his philosophy has never changed – that type should always be legible and pragmatic. These characteristics are evident in his abstract style that is timeless yet contemporary,” said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Monotype Imaging. “Few type designers are able to achieve this balance the way Frutiger has succeeded.”

The Frutiger Serif design is based on the Meridien® typeface, one of Frutiger’s first, released in 1957. Some of the earliest letterpress specimens of the original Meridien design still exist, which served as inspiration for the Frutiger Serif project. “I have a deep appreciation for the metal version of Meriden, which is quite different than the digital version,” said Kobayashi, who with the support of Frutiger redrew and expanded the Meridien design to create Frutiger Serif. “The spirit of Meridien is still evident in Frutiger Serif, which incorporates elegant serifs, gentle curves and arcs. We added weights, widths and styles that not only come closer to Frutiger’s original Meridien but also harmonize with several of Frutiger’s sans serif faces.”

The Frutiger Serif typeface family is available in five weights ranging from light to heavy, and all weights are available in both regular and condensed versions. Each has a corresponding italic, in addition to a condensed italic. The Frutiger Serif fonts support 48 western, central and eastern European languages, including Baltic and Turkish. The fonts are available in the OpenType® cross-platform format and include OpenType features such as ligatures, small caps and several numerical figures.

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FontShop brings you FontStruct, a free font building tool:

FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.
Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.

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FACELIFT is the 3rd annual exhibition by event curators Inkthis. The project showcases a unique typeface featuring 40 individually crafted letterforms developed by both new and established image makers from across the globe presenting a style-heavy blend of type, design, illustration, sculpture, painting & graffiti. Contributors include the likes of Gary Taxali, Alex Trochut, Boris Hoppek & Mario Hugo. The exhibition will be on show between April 22nd and May 9th at the LCB Depot in Leicester.

The exhibition will be on display in Leicester (UK) at the LCB Depot from 22.04.2008 – 09.05.2008.

For more information please visit www.inkthis.co.uk

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“The role that design and typography plays in this will be explored at the TYPO Berlin 2008.”

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My friend Alex Haigh as updated his portfolio site thinkdust.com and and also made this new font, named Sukato.

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Typographica revealed their 25 favorite typefaces of 2007, an amazing selection of typefaces, from people like Erik Spierkermann and others.

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On Paul Rand site:
There are essentially two kinds of typography: The familiar kind for reading, and the other, simply for viewing, like a painting. Some say that readability is most important. There are really two important things about typography: readability and beauty; both are equally important. However, many readable typefaces are visually offensive. The design of a typeface, ugly or not, is only one aspect of the problem of readability. How a typeface is used is equally, if not more, important.

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Tomás Valle, from Barcelona, just send us this great video.

From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands, all the way to the Z, ABC-3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 dimensional letters that move and change before your eyes is a treat. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there’s U… Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come.

MARION BATAILLE is graphic and book designer who lives in Paris. This is just a hand-made mock-up of the actual book which publishes in Oct. 2008.

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Great type work on those spreads.

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Laura Zinger just wrote us, with the trailer for the documentary PROCEED AND BE BOLD starring Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr..

Related: PROCEED AND BE BOLD – Bringing Race and Art to the masses

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