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Hooptie Script, two typefaces inspired by the Motor City

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:25:28 +0200

Detroit — a city of extremes. Today the inner city is an industrial momument — a growing waste land without life. Abandoned car wrecks by the side of the street are the only remains of the glorious days of the Motor City. It the middle of the 20st century Detroit was the boom town of North America and the car manufacturers equipped their cars with shiny chrome parts – and a new kind of type design: Chrome Script. Based on this almost forgotten style, we developed two contemporary retro font family, called Hooptie Script. The fonts make full use of modern OpenType technology. Just turn on contextual alternates and ligatures and watch how each letter pair always connects perfectly.

Check out the PDF type specimen.

The fonts are available at fonts.info and MyFonts.com.

Along with these typefaces we released an eBook about the Motor City, which uses the Hooptie Script fonts. Check it out here: http://www.hooptie.de You can read about the project here.

typefaces from fonts.info now available as webfonts

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:02:24 +0100

When the webfont revolution started in 2008 with the release of Safari 3.1, fonts.info was one of the first foundries to support this development with the release of our free Graublau Sans Web typeface. Today this technology is implemented in all recent browser versions and we are happy to announce that our commercial typefaces are now also available as webfonts …

http://www.fonts.info/info/press/en-fdi-webfonts.htm

Yo—ho—ho! Tierra Nueva released

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:39:57 +0200

Four fonts by Sebastian Nagel based on a map of America from 1562, that was created by the spanish cartographer Diego Guiterrez and the dutch engraver Hieronymus Cock.

English PDF specimen: http://www.fonts.info/dlcounter/DrWeb_DownloadZaehler.php?d=10
German PDF specimen: http://www.fonts.info/dlcounter/DrWeb_DownloadZaehler.php?d=9

English page: http://www.fonts.info/info/en_tierra-nueva.htm
German page: http://www.fonts.info/info/tierra-nueva.htm

Iwan Reschniev - a typeface by Jan Tschichold

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:41:28 +0100

In 1930 Jan Tschichold describes a new typeface in the publication “Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandels”, that “can be drawn by everyone without typographic knowledge”. Sebastian Nagel from Austria extended the original drawing to 7 weights (black, extrabold, bold, semibold, regular, semilight and light), with full coverage of the Latin 1 character set. All fonts also include small caps and alternate characters.

Visit fonts.info for more information.

fonts.info releases free fonts for web embedding (via font-face)

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:10:43 +0100

Typographic variety is coming back to the Web. With the release of Safari 3.1 for MacOS and Windows, Apple’s web browser now supports font embedding for websites. Now millions of web users can view websites the way they were intended to be. Read on …