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marked the most exciting year in 2011 FontFont history. The innovations that we launched this year received a warm welcome in the design and development com- munities and beyond.

The Wonderful World of Web FontFonts Almost two years after FontFont became the first those who prefer subscription services, our coopera- type manufacturer to release webfonts in the .woff tion with Typekit offers a safe and easy-to-use alter- format, the Web FontFont Library has grown into native. Web developers enjoy designing offline a Library of 2,500 typefaces. Compatible with more mockups and webpage layouts with Comp fonts, than 96% of all browsers, including Mobile Safari, packaged with webfonts at no additional charge. webfonts are here to stay. Hundreds of websites currently use the popular ff DIN, ff Dax, ff Meta, This year, we also improved the magical FontFonter ff Tisa, as well as many other FontFonts, to set service. With the help of FontFonter.com users can themselves apart with beautiful design. test-drive a large selection of Web FontFonts on any html site. To date, 42 sans serif and 22 serif families FontFont set standards not only technically, but are available to preview in various combinations. also in terms of user-friendliness. Our customers appreciate multiple hosting options. They can host Subsetter.com, our online FontFont optimizer, which their Web FontFonts on their own servers, or for debuted in July, also gained a lot of popularity. Using → Subsetter, FontFonts can be individually rebuilt, both Our website FontFont.com, relaunched in April, was the world. They often express their enthusiasm for in terms of file size as well as aesthetics. For instance, awarded, not only with the approval of our custo- working with our font technicians. when you want to use oldstyle figures instead of mers, but also by the jury of the iF Communication Our technical experts have performed splendidly tabular figures or do not need any language support, Design Awards. once again in 2011: the entire library is now available you can remove unnecessary characters and reduce in OpenType; the most popular FontFonts are the size of the webfont by up to 90 %. When several Our founder, Erik Spiekermann, was honored with available also in Office and, of course, in Web formats. weights are being used, small font files can dramati- his home country’s highest distinction in the field In order to achieve a clearer structure, we split our cally lessen the burden of high traffic and speed up of design, the Design Award of the Federal Republic library in three tiers, which takes into consideration the load of the website. of Germany, for his lifetime achievement. diverse technical and conceptual needs and provides a better perspective to the FontFont Library. Moving into Mobile The Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired 23 Recently, the mobile apps market became more digital typefaces for its Architecture and Design 2011 was indeed the most exciting year for us typographically diverse. FontFont is the first foundry Collection. Among them ff DIN, ff Meta, ff Blur and so far — heavy emphasis on “so far.” to answer the needs of this market with a customer ff Beowolf. friendly offer: Mobile FontFonts. They let you break Ivo Gabrowitsch, from the mold of rather dull system fonts, with a Stellar Staff Marketing Director simple and economical all-inclusive license. For us, this successful year served as an incentive to continue our commitment to being the world’s fastest Amazing Accolades growing library of contemporary typefaces. No other 2011 was also an exciting year for many of our type foundry offers such a high release frequency of quality designers. FontFont designers received 11 renowned fonts. With the release of nearly 20 new or extended awards in 2011, including those from Type Directors FontFont Families, we set the bar high again within Club, istd International Typographic Awards, ATypI’s the last 12 months. We are particularly proud of the Type Design Competition Letter.2 and Communica- fact that we are typographic home to both establis- tion Arts. hed, as well as emerging type designers from all over fontfont in 2011 january february march april may june july august september october november december

entire typeboard comp fonts ATypI 2011 webfontday/ FF Library meeting typotag munich available july 21st september in OpenType may 23rd included 14th—17th november march 30th in Web Reykjavík, 18th—19th FontFonts Iceland Germany typo berlin page 12 Mobile FontFonts may 19th–21st Launch typeboard FF Release Magazine Germany subsetter october 11th meeting launch november 14th february 23rd july 7th page 14i FIFTY2|3|4 page 13 Download release ff57 release ff58 tdc2011 awards fontbook october 18th november 21st may 9th ipad app launch New FontFonts 1st web fontfont N New FontFonts anniversary ff Suhmo july 22 d ff Karbid ff Ernestine february 24th ff Tundra Updates & Extensions typecon 2011 ff Quadraat FontFont.com page 18 ff Nexus ff Quadraat Sans relaunch july 5th—10th ff Unit april 4th New Orleans, Updates & Extensions page 8i Louisiana, USA ff Signa moma collection asward ff Meta Serif january 24th October 14th page 21 ff Meta, release ff55 release ff56 istd Award ff DIN, april 8th july 22Nd Library Tiers October 18th ff Beowolf and New FontFonts New FontFonts page 15 ff Blur acquired by ff Spinoza ff Sero Letter.2 Award Skill Sets MoMA for its ff More ff Tundra October 21st page 17 Architecture and Updates & Extensions ff Mister K Informal Communication Design Collection ff Meta Hebrew ff Nuvo Mono Arts Awards ff Signa Stencil page 18 i ff Signa Serif Stencil Updates & Extensions uppercase 2011 ff Info october 26th ff Profile Milan, Italy typo london 2011 october 20th—22Nd United Kingdom a. a. a. a. a. 08 10 11 12 13 a. FontFont New Improved Websites using Comp Fonts Subsetter for Web News fontfont.com Webfonts Web FontFonts included in FontFonts Web FontFonts

a. a. a. a. b. 14 15 17 18 New! 22 Mobile Library Tiers ff Skill Sets Awards b. new ff Ernestine FontFonts fontfonts

b. b. b. b. b. b. 23 25 26 27 28 29 ff Karbid, ff Mister K ff More ff Nuvo Mono ff Quadraat ff Sero ff Karbid Text, Informal & ff Quadraat ff Karbid Display Sans

b. b. b. b. c. 30 31 32 33 35 ff Signa ff Signa Stencil ff Spinoza ff Tundra c. fontfont ff Info (Extension) & ff Signa Serif updates Stencil

c. c. c. c. c. c. 36 37 38 39 40 41 ff Meta Hebrew ff Meta Serif ff Nexus ff Profile ff Unit New Web FontFonts

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Neville Neville Brody Donald Beekman Neville Brody Donald Beekman Slang Slang Slang Slang 1 ff Motel Gothic™ 1 ff Golden Gate Gothic™ 5 ff Softsoul™ 1 ff Matinee Gothic™ Jim Parkinson Jim Parkinson Donald Beekman Jim Parkinson updated on October 2011 | FF 57

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“Can highly recommend viewing “Oh sweet lord. I’ve just come FontFont full-screen on a large upon the new @fontfont site at display... work of art! :)” 1:40 am. Looks like bedtime is —Rorie McIntosh being kicked down the road an hour.” —Noah Armstrong {Improved: Web FontFonts} /* In February 2010 we released Web FontFonts, marking the beginning of a new era for typography and becoming the first major foundry to offer fonts in WOFF. Since then, 10 news improved web fontfonts headline: ff Spinoza WOFF has become the webfont standard; a format now copy: ff Nuvo Mono supported by all major browsers. We began with a simple pay-once licensing model and optimized every font for the best possible display across platforms.

In 2011, to celebrate broad WOFF support with the most recent ver- File size sion of Safari, our Type Depart- www ment further improved the files. Webfonts are now up to 60 % smaller Thank you for 60% with additional optimization for keeping the web new versions of Windows and impro- beautiful. ved vertical metrics for consistent baseline positions in all browsers. Upgraded files are available at no additional cost to previous Web /> FontFont customers. ff Brokenscript, ff Nuvo, ff Tisa → www.bryanlevay.com

ff Cocon → www.bodieboost.com

ff Dagny → www.cargocollective.com → www.upperdog.se

ff Dax → www.metia.com

ff DIN → www.worldmusic.net ff DIN Round → www.swim.de ff DIN Condensed → www.bryanbantry.com ff Meta Serif →www.8faces.com ff Tisa →www.friendsoftheweb.com ff Basic Gothic →www.welcometotakeout.com (small caps used) ff Duper → www.walterthewave.com ff Enzo → www.imposemagazine.com

ff Masala → www.growsup.com

ff Meta → www.reason.com → www.chicagoist.com → www.mailchimp.com

ff Meta Serif → www.propublica.org news websites using web → www.8faces.com 11 fontfonts → www.lagardecosta.com font: ff Nexus Sans url: ff Nexus Serif ff Milo Serif & ff Milo → www.teilharddechardin.org

ff Dagny →www.typecon.com ff Netto →www.workatplay.com ff Netto → www.audanika.com

ff Prater Script → www.healthmonth.com → www.brooklynderby.com

ff Scala → blog.readmill.com

ff Schulbuch → www.mcachicago.org

ff Speak → www.thebrandmanual.com

ff Tisa → www.foodsense.is → www.jonathan-krause.de → www.tillymoss.com → www.dangersoffracking.com

ff Tundra → www.jonathan-krause.de

ff Sanuk →www.saarlb.de ff Kievit →www.authenticjobs.com ff Milo Serif & ff Milo Used a Web FontFont on your website? →www.paulshawletterdesign.com →Let us know! Launched on July 21th

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Included in¶ FontFont continues to make Web FontFonts# the lives of designers much easier! ¶ ¶ It’s now even simpler to integrate great ¶ news comp fonts included typefaces like ff Meta Web, ff DIN Web, 12 in web fontfonts headline and copy: ff Profile or the new ff Sero Web in all phases of website creation. We know that during the design process it may be necessary to create page layouts of the proposed design using applications that don’t support woff/eot fonts. Therefore, Web Font Font FontFont archives now contain corresponding TrueType-flavored OpenType fonts for the offline design phase. As reflected in the amended Web FontFont eula, these Comp fonts may only be used for this specific purpose.# ¶ Launched on July 21th Free! The improvements and launch of subsetter Web FontFonts and Comp Fonts were not enough for us. We decided to take

Choose between old style and typographic innovation one step tabular figures; keep or remove hinting and kerning. further with Users should have more control over their fonts. One of the reasons our the launch of customers rely on FontFonts is because of their comprehensive character sets, Subsetter. but in the web environment cutting back news subsetter for on file size can be important, especially 13 web fontfonts headline: ff Sero when speed matters. That’s why we built teaser and copy: ff Tundra Subsetter.

Select the character Subsetter allows the users to strip out extraneous groups you want to glyphs and data that may not be needed, like unused keep in the font. language characters, punctuation marks and kerning information.

Smaller files mean faster websites and a better user experience. Dropping inessential characters from a webfont can make a big difference in the long term and give designers the opportunity to use more styles

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Mobile Once again leading the way in typographic technology, we released Mobile FontFonts tailored specifically for use in iOS apps. Available at MobileFontFonts.com, the files are optimized to make the design FontFonts process for creating beautiful iOS applications as seamless as possible. When designing a native app for a mobile device, like iPhone, Mobile FontFonts allow the designer to specify Rg Rg Rg Rg Rg Rg fonts outside the options that come preinstalled. Just like webfonts, mobile fonts protect brands and help ff Basic Gothic ff Celeste ff Celeste Sans ff Clifford ff Cocon ff Daxline Mobile Pro Mobile Pro Mobile Pro Mobile Pro Mobile Pro Mobile Pro set apps apart from the crowd. With language support 14 news mobile fontfonts headline: ff Nexus Serif included, Mobile FontFonts allow for consistent, subtle copy: ff Nexus Sans Rg Rg Rg branding to a global audience. 56 mobile fonts from 15 Rg Rg Rg popular families are available in 14 packs with 4 fonts each. ff Duper ff Good ff Hands/ff Trixie ff Providence/ ff Tisa ff Yoga Mobile Pro Mobile Pro Mobile Pro ff Providence Sans Mobile Pro Mobile Pro Mobile Pro Simple Licensing Licensing for Mobile FontFonts serves the needs of the Rg Rg Fourteen Mobile FontFont Packages iOS developer. A team of up to five developers can share are available, containing four fonts each. ff Yoga Sans ff Suhmo one license for their app portfolio. There’s no time limit Mobile Pro Mobile Pro www.MobileFontFonts.com on the license, nor annual royalty requirements, just a one-time license fee. Currently, Mobile FontFonts are only available for iOS, but we are planning to expand them to additional platforms such as Android in the future. .com Finding Faces FontShop International ith 2,500 typefaces and introduces the FontFont counting, FontFont has Faster Library Tier system W become one of the largest contemporary type libraries in the world. Having so many designs to choose from can be both a blessing and a curse; leisurely sifting through thousands of fonts online is pleasurable for any type lover, but it can be a daun- 15 news library tiers ting task at 3 a.m. when deadlines loom. headline & copy: ff Karbid initials: ff Karbid Display details: ff Mister K Informal

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FontFont’s Premium Tier includes today’s The FontFont Collection Tier is a selection As a bonus to our loyal customers, most popular FontFonts and will feature of economically priced typographic treasu- FontFont now offers a variety of free the latest releases going forward. This tier, res, including Xavier Dupré’s FF Reminga, typefaces, including Paul Sych’s FF Dig, the largest in the new system, showcases FF Mambo by Val Fullard, and experimental Dog, Hip, international favorites like Albert-Jan Pool’s designs like the FF FUSE Classics. Visitors FF Peecol from Steffen Sauerteig and FF DIN, FF Scala by Martin Majoor, FF Dax to the website will enjoy simple, easy-to- Kai Vermehr (Eboy), and Timothy from Hans Reichel, and Spiekermann’s FF use navigation when browsing typefaces Donaldson’s FF FancyWriting. Free Tier Meta and FF Unit. in the Collection Tier. titles contain the complete family in a 16 news library tiers headline: ff Karbid Premium Tier FontFonts anchor the The Collection Tier is offered in full- single package, and are available in subheadline: ff Karbid Display copy: ff Karbid Text library in three formats to address every family packages only—fonts are available OpenType with Standard language support. need—OpenType, Offc, and Web.* By next in OpenType with Standard language summer, all fonts in the Premium Tier will support (with a few key exceptions). All feature Pro language support, including packages in this tier are affordably priced Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic in some at less than 100€/$, making it easier than designs. Customers are not restricted to ever for customers to build a quality type licensing full packages in this tier, but may collection. * Offc and Web versions of some Premium Tier FontFonts are still in choose single weights from these bestsel- development and will be available ling type families. soon.

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ff Skill Sets Ranging from striking display faces over idiosyncratic designs The idea of developing ff Skill Sets are available to flowing advertising scripts, ff Skill Sets originated for 3 categories. these fonts guarantee your pro- from our awareness of duct will be noticed. how frustrating it can Download Info PDF be for designers to have 17 news ff skill sets headline and copy: ff More lots of new ideas but very limited time. It’s very common that the task list of a designer includes a mad search for the right fonts when a deadline closes in. FontFont aims to save your time and nerves by intro- ff Corporate & Business ff Editorial & Publishing ducing FF Skill Sets. Break away from the old, tired From salient headlines to clear, standard fonts with this coll- legible body text, these perso- ection of spirited yet dignified nable typefaces will turn your The Skill Sets are available at special prices faces that will make you stand publication into a powerful for students. Please send us a copy of your out from the crowd. communication tool.

student ID for a discount of 70% or more on Download Info PDF Download Info PDF any of these packages. A w a r d s 2 0 1 1 FontFont is once again the happy publisher of award-winning fonts. These are this year’s — I S T D A wa r ds 2 0 11 winners. ff Dagny by Örjan Nordling and Göran Söderström, tdc2 2011 ff Milo Serif by Michael Abbink and ff Spinoza Sixty Randgloves by Max Phillips won the Certificate of Excellence ff Suhmo in istd Awards 2011 from International Society of Typographic Designers. Sixty Randgloves ff Tundra — TDC2 2011 max phillips news awards “I’d like to thank Andreas Frohloff for pushing every glyph to 18 ff Suhmo by Alex Rütten and ff Tundra by Ludwig headline: ff Quadraat Sans Display be its best, Frank Grießhammer for helping them sit nicely in teaser: ff Quadraat Display Übele received the Certificate of Excellence in copy: ff Quadraat Sans a line, Ugla Marekowa for shooing them out the door, speeches: ff Quadraat Type Design at this year’s tdc2 competition by Type and Christoph Koeberlin for helping to introduce them to the Directors Club. istd awards 2011 world. I’d like to thank Stephen Coles and Jonathan Hoefler for taking the time to give a new type designer valuable Sixty Randgloves alex rütten advice. And I’d like to thank my wife Kirsten for continuing ff Dagny “I’d like to thank my girlfriend Olivia Wood for keeping an to live with me while the work got done.” relentless eye on the details, Felix Braden for his valuable Sixty Randgloves ff Milo Serif and speedy feedback, and last but not least Christoph örjan nordling Koeberlin for his patience and his critique on endless design- Sixty Randgloves “I’d like to thank Mario Garcia, John Bark and Mats Odéen versions.” ff Spinoza for commissioning the dn Grotesk, André Gürtler for teaching me type and the FontFont crew for encouragement in the ludwig übele making of ff Dagny.” “I’d like to thank an unknown Semitic speaker for inventing our alphabet (which makes it possible for me to create Latin-based typefaces with a reasonable amount of characters rather than thousands of logograms).” — c o mm u n ic ati o n a r ts T y p o g r a p h y C o m p e ti ti o n 2 0 11

The juried competition of Communication Arts letter.2 awards 2011 celebrates the best use of typography as the primary Sixty Randgloves visual element in design and advertising, plus new ff Strada typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering. — L e tt e r . 2 A wa r ds 2 0 11 ff More by Łukasz Dziedzic, ff Sero by Jörg Hemker Sixty Randgloves ff Milo news webawards fontsfonts and ff Spinoza by Max Phillips won the 2011 19 ff Strada by Albert Pinggera, ff Milo by Michael headline: ff Quadraat Sans Display Communication Arts Award in the category of Sixty Randgloves copy: ff Quadraat Sans Abbink and Paul van der Laan and ff Legato by the Typeface Design. ff Legato much missed Evert Bloemsma won Letter.2 Awards 2011 organized by the Association Typographique jörg hemker Internationale (ATypI). “Can I quote Alfred Hitchcock, who accepted his Oscar with only two words in 1967: ‘Thank you.’?” albert pinggera: communication arts typography competition “Bedankt, Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende 2011 Kunsten.” Sixty Randgloves ff More paul van der laan “I’d like to thank David Brent who once said: ‘Quitters never Sixty Randgloves win, winners never quit. But those who never win and never ff Sero quit are idiots.’” Sixty Randgloves ff Spinoza — G e r ma n D e si g n A wa r ds 2 0 11

In addition to the awards for FontFonts, we also celebrated an important award that went to Erik Spiekermann, co-founder of FontShop and FontFont. Spiekermann won the Personality Award at the German Design Awards 2011. The Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany (Designpreis — F o n t F o n ts i n M o M A 20 news webawards fontsfonts Deutschland) is the country’s highest distinction in headline: ff Quadraat Sans Display C o ll e ct i o n copy: ff Quadraat Sans the field of design. In January 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York announced that 23 digital typefaces have been chosen to be admitted to its architecture and design collection among which are ff Meta, ff DIN, ff Beowolf and ff Blur. Joining MoMA’s collection is a great distinction in the design world and we are honored to have FontFonts included in it. Photo Credit: German Design Council.

Andrej Kupetz, General Manager of the German Design Council presents the Personality Award 2011 to Erik Spiekermann b. new fontfonts ff Ernestine ff Karbid & ff Karbid Display (Extension) ff Karbid Text & ff Karbid Slab ff Mister K Informal ff More ff Nuvo Mono ff Quadraat & ff Quadraat Sans (Redesign & Extension) ff Sero ff Signa (Extension) ff Signa Stencil & ff Signa Serif Stencil ff Spinoza ff Tundra

Yeah!Even though the FontFont Library is one of the largest font libraries in the world, our excitement and passion for introducing new fonts to the typographic world never cease. We are the foundry with the highest number of new font releases per year. Affinity ֍ №23 ֍ Աչքը ինչ տեսնար, սիրտը չի մոռնար. Standaardbriefje Խնձորը ծառից Taurus & Mountains հեռու չի ընկնում. ֍Armenian֍

Ħalfheartedness↠ff Ernestine was born from the search Straßenbahnfor a versatile monoline text typeface that would feel warm yet serious, Rg Rg Rg Rg 22 fonts ff ernestine fontfont.com/fonts/ernestine feminine yet rigid, charming yet sturdy. Its rather large x-height and wide, open Rg Rg Rg Rg Wolfhoundshapes enable it to work well down to small sizes; ligatures, stylistic & con- Հայաստանիtextual alternatesՀանրապետություն (g→g), a selection of Nina Stössinger first drew the Roman as a study project at the postgraduate ↣arrows, and two sizes of small caps Type Design program in Zurich, and the Italic in dialogue with Hrant enrich its typographic palette. ⇤ Light & Light Italic Papazian’s Armenian design. filling Regular & Regular Italic Both the Roman and the Italic Demi Bold & Demi Bold Italic (which doubles as a harmo- Bold & Bold Italic nious companion to the Arme- nian component) are available in four individually drawn weights. The 1983 four corresponding Armenian weights, nicknamed “Vem” – integrated in the ↠République Roman and Italic fonts in the Pro version – share the personable character of the family with the proportions optimized l’Émirat d'Arménie→↠↣↦⇥֎|֍ ⇤↤↢↞← for the Armenian script. FF Karbid Text Light Italic Magazines Regular Italic Medium Italic I Bold Italic Black Italic ➊

FF Karbid Light Italic ➋ Slab Regular Italic & Display & Text Medium Italic I’m so indecisive and keep Bold Italic ③ having a change of heart Black Italic

12 111 ➍ 10 2 The ABC CARS FF Karbid Display of CARS 39 Gardening Light Italic 8 4 CARS Regular Italic 7 5 { ➎ 6 ( Medium Italic •••• Wogue Bold Italic Black Italic 23 fonts ff karbid ••• • • • fontfont.com/fonts/karbid fontfont.com/fonts/karbid-text fontfont.com/fonts/karbid-display FF Karbid Slab fontfont.com/fonts/karbid-slab Light Italic Regular Italic Medium Italic KIOSK Bold Italic Black Italic ➸ • Originally published in only three Gerlach researched and documented weights and one display version a lot of these storefront and shop ff • Karbid • in 1999, FF Karbid was completely letterings in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg redesigned and extended. Karbid and Mitte quarters. Sadly, they have is an interpretation of storefront now almost entirely disappeared lettering created between 1900 and due to the renovation works in the 1 Family the late 1930s that was preser- reunified German capital. However 4 Fonts Stylistic Sets ved due to the German Democratic their spirit lives on in the idiosyn- 5 Weights A KA–RB–id A each + G • G • G Republic’s economy of scarcity. In cratic letter forms of the FF Karbid Italics the beginning of the 1990s Verena typefaces. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The new FF Karbid is a harmo- aaaa gggg llll vvvv nized redesign of the original FF Karbid typeface. Its letters appear rounder and less narrow, lending the shapes more space and balance. The endings of the Handglovek diagonals (w, W, v, V) – which used to be bevelled as reference to the original design – have HHHH nnnn dddd kkkk been straightened for a smoother appearance. Stroke contrast has been reduced, making the typeface more monolinear and harmonious without losing its liveliness. Yet this contrast increases in the bolder weights for optimal legibility and elegance. The family now comes in five co-ordi- nated weights – from Light to Black, each with corresponding FF Karbid FF Karbid FF Karbid Obliques. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Display Slab Text

FF Karbid Display is the The FF Karbid suite of The final variant added to The 4 Faces most obvious spin-off of typefaces now also inclu- the FF Karbid type system • ➸ the original Karbid. The des a new Slab version. is the new text version. It of FF Karbid characteristic letter forms Its sober, newslike cha- is intended for setting body were assimilated, then racter was inspired by copy in small text sizes, subtly revised to match the magazine typography in mainly for publication design new concept. The fami- the 1930s (see Memphis, (books, magazines etc.). The Features All versions of FF Karbid contain numerous alternate ly was extended to five Rockwell, Stymie etc.). character shapes are more characters, allowing you to considerably change the appearance of weights, complete with The strong serifs give the subdued – the eccentric, the typefaces. These alternates are based on Art Deco lettering sty- matching Obliques. slab serif a dignified and serif-like swashes in the les with their sometimes eccentric forms. You can choose between assured look. The stroke lowercase a, d, h, m, n, u and low- and high-waisted variants of the capitals, a circular O and contrast was increased capital R were abandoned, * G, an A with straight legs and rounded top, and many more which There is the for legibility and balance. while the lively l, y, z and Z right FF Karbid for can all be used interchangeably. The fonts include four figure sets reveal this variant’s kinship everyone. plus small figures and fractions, arrows and bullets, and offer Latin * to the FF Karbid family. Extended language support. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Shopping List This new design by Julia Sysmäläinen isthelatest Two packages of brown sugar clear & 2 × Cat food friendly offspring of the Mister K font family. Itbeganin One giant tub of mashed potatoes a package Ginger cookies one of Kafka’s Quart Notebooks with handwritten Breakfast Tea Sleeping Pills texts that look astonishingly clear. Theletterforms Canned soup Mac ’n’ Cheese Ligatures are carefully placed line after linebutstillreveal � something important that I already forgot the author’s characteristic writing style.Thereis a simple explanation: These are final,rewritten stylistic alternates texts. The first version – loaded withheavyediting 25 fonts ff mster k informal fontfont.com/fonts/mister-k-informal Hi, and correction marks – can be found elsewherein I’m Mister• K. How are you? • Kafka’s literary remains. The strong personality of FF Mister K is often appreciated, butsome OpenType designers find it too unpredictable fordownto Features earth target groups. So enriching theKFamily Handgloves Handgloves with a clear and friendly lookingmember May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I derived from Kafka’s stylistic repertoire meetsthe might as well open thewindow and kiss the night air. needs of many users. Mister � Informal supports more than *100* It’s easy to find sans languages Đồng Tháp serif typefaces with The 30-font ff More fills this void. Five weights Þorlákshöfn multiple widths and available each in Con- densed, Regular, and Wide weights, but large widths answer every need Екатеринбург of publication design, from strong headlines to serif families are readable text and space- Havlíčkův Brod efficient information much less common. graphics. ff More’s sturdy Балашиха serifs and gentle contrast 26 fonts ff more fontfont.com/fonts/more withstand the rigors of magazine and newspaper production — retaining clarity despite size, background, or substrate. Łukasz Dziedzic built ff More to work alongside ff Good, resulting in a powerhouse super family, versatile in both its function and aesthetic.

Condensed Light & Italic Light & Italic Wide Light & Italic Condensed Book & Italic Book & Italic Wide Book & Italic Condensed Medium & Italic Medium & Italic Wide Medium & Italic Condensed Bold & Italic Bold & Italic Wide Bold & Italic Condensed Black & Italic Black & Italic Wide Black & Italic f f N u v o ← M oon – s p a c e d w e i g h t s s→ m a l l 5 c a p s g g @ a l t e r n a t e s

Siegfried Rückel expands his magazine typeface ff Nuvo with a monospaced variant for all 27 fonts ff nuvo mono fontfont.com/fonts/nuvo-mono weights, including small caps and Italics, n u v o offering new options for both traditional and unusual typesetting. The design retains its ff Nuvo Mono Regular typical stroke endings with “chipped” corners, ff Nuvo Mono Regular Italic which make the characters appear soft when seen ff Nuvo Mono Medium from a distance or in small point sizes, but ff Nuvo Mono Medium Italic reveal their peculiar forms at a closer look. ff Nuvo Mono Bold However its x-height was somewhat lowered in ff Nuvo Mono Bold Italic comparison to ff Nuvo to emphasize ff Nuvo ff Nuvo Mono Extra Bold Mono’s typewriter character. The calligraphic ff Nuvo Mono Extra Bold Italic touch in the characters a, g and y make this ff Nuvo Mono Black ff Nuvo Mono Black Italic typeface stand out among other typewriter-like faces, as do the alternate characters for a→a, g→g, k→k, s→s and y→y, which add typographic m o n o / versatility. a * new Sans * ff Quadraat Sans Thin & Italic * ff Quadraat Sans Extra Light & Italic RaKl ff * ff Quadraat Sans Light & Italic Язык Quadraat Sans ff Quadraat Sans & Italic Quadraat * ff Quadraat Sans Demi Bold & Italic RaKl + Sans Dis- FF Язык FF Cond ff Quadraat Sans Bold & Italic Alternates Cyrillic Refined Outlines newbefore play Sans Quadraat Mono * ff Quadraat Sans Cond Thin & Italic

* ff Quadraat Sans Cond Extralight & Italic Display

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Quadraat Quadraat ff Quadraat Sans Cond Bold & Italic company with the same name (now it is ff Quadraat FF Quadraat Sans Display Semi Bold called the “Lab”), FF Quadraat combines FF Quadraat Headliner Black FF Quadraat Sans Mono Regular & Italic Renaissance elegance with contemporary FF Quadraat Sans Mono Bold & Italic Serif ff Quadraat & Italic ideas on construction and form. Upon its release by FontFont as a modest * ff Quadraat Demi Bold & Italic four weight family in 1992, the confident and accom- ff Quadraat Bold & Italic plished type design immediately established the then 28 fonts ff quadraat FF Quadraat Display Regular Italic fontfont.com/fonts/quadraat 31-year-old Fred Smeijers as a force to be reckoned with. FF Quadraat Display Bold Italic fontfont.com/fonts/quadraat-display fontfont.com/fonts/quadraat-headliner The typeface was born out of careful research in form fontfont.com/fonts/quadraat-sans FF Quadraat Headliner Light & Italic fontfont.com/fonts/quadraat-sans-display and function. FF Quadraat Headliner Bold & Italic fontfont.com/fonts/quadraat-sans-mono Smeijers wanted ff Quadraat to be as the original designs, many character shapes were economical as Times, but with less sparkle; as carefully redesigned and fine-tuned. Furthermore balanced as Plantin, but less static. The resulting three delicate light weights were added to the Sans typeface is a wonderfully effective text typeface, with and Sans Condensed versions, and new Demi unassuming yet highly original character shapes. weights for all the variants bridge the gap between ff Quadraat quickly became one of the flagship type Regular and Bold. Every single weight in Serif, Sans, families for the fledgling independent foundry. and Sans Condensed now has Small Caps, as well as Over the years the family expanded Pro character sets with Latin & Cyrillic Extended, into a comprehensive type system. And now, almost adding about 100 languages. Finally the descending two decades after the initial release, Smeijers has tail of the K and R are now held in check in alternative completely overhauled the Serif, Sans and Sans glyphs. Condensed versions of ff Quadraat. After examining 8 Weights extra plus Italics thin Italic black thin Italic Italic

bold extra Italic ff SERO light Italic

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29 fonts ff sero Rudā vāvere fontfont.com/fonts/sero Црвена верверица S m a l l c A p s w/ F i g u r e s 1 2 3 Aa Wewjůrka e n m a s s e Jörg Hemker’s versatile sans ff Sero combines the striking forms of an American Grotesque with the legibility of a Humanist sans serif typeface. It possesses open counters, a distinct x-height and a homogeneous grey value. During the seven years of development the classic letter forms have matured and form a balanced, autonomous typeface. Eight harmonized weights and an extensive character set allow for flexible and versatile typography. Cуrillic and Greek characters provide an extended language support. → New Weights! FF Signa — a typically Danish FF Signa Serif FF Signa typeface — is rooted in architectural Light + Italic → Extra Light + Italic lettering rather than book typogra- Book + Italic Light + Italic phy. This sans serif of concise letter Semi Bold + Italic Book + Italic forms and a minimum of detail Bold + Italic Bold + Italic joined the growing collection of Black + Italic Black + Italic sans/serif type systems when the → Extra Black + Italic serif variant was added in 2005. → Ultra + Italic FF Signa continues to expand its super family with another addition. Condensed 30 fonts ff signa/serif In 2011, the face added six fonts fontfont.com/fonts/signa fontfont.com/fonts/signa-serif Condensed Light + Italic in three new weights: Extra Light, Condensed Book + Italic Extra Black, and Ultra, each with Condensed Bold + Italic a companion italic. Condensed Black + Italic Now both versions are available as stylish stencil designs. → Extended Extended Light + Italic S S Extended Book + Italic Extended Bold + Italic Serif Street Sans Serif Street Extended Black + Italic → Ole Søndergaard’s stencil faces can be used to produce actual stencils, but more often than not they are selected for their unique aesthetic. It is fascinating to see how separate FF Signa Stencil “floating” fragments combine FF Signa Serif Stencil to form recognizable character FF Signa Stencil Book shapes. The way those letters FF Signa Stencil Bold FF Signa Stencil Black FF Signa Serif Stencil Book are cut up gives a stencil design FF Signa Serif Stencil Bold 31 fonts ff signa stencil FF Signa Serif Stencil Black its specific character. fontfont.com/fonts/signa-stencil fontfont.com/fonts/signa-serif-stencil

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ff Spinoza Regular Max Phillips developed ff Spinoza over a period of eleven years. With the goal of readability in mind, Phillips named the typeface after 17th cen tury rationalist and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza, a an elegant man whose job it was to help people see clearly. Medium The family is meant as an elegant workhorse, a classic text family with just enough individual character to hold its own in display sizes. Bold It was inspired by mid-century German book workhorse faces like Trump Mediaeval and Aldus, and by the types of Nicolas Kis. Black The forms are narrow and economical, with open counters. The line is firm and distinct. 32 fonts ff spinoza fontfont.com/fonts/spinoza It has strong thick strokes and serifs to help it grip the page. Its intended virtues are firmness, clarity and modesty.

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Ludwig Übele’s Award-Winning design line. Ludwig Übele combined strong for continuous text, it is also suitable for 7 ff Tundra ff Tundra is a narrow serif typeface with serifs, flat shoulders (see n) and open yet magazines and headlines (specifically where no trees grow stressed forms and soft contours. heavy endings (see a, e, c) with a moderate the Extra Light) and will surely work in The idea evolved from investigating how contrast to achieve a balanced, legible newspapers as well. The family consists a narrow typeface should look for opti- typeface with a distinct softness and of six weights from Extra Light to Bold, 8 mal readability. To avoid a fence-effect, humanity. each with Italics and Small Caps and ff Tundra emphasizes the horizontal Although ff Tundra has been designed many OpenType layout features. c. fontfont updates ff Info ff Profile ff Meta Hebrew ff Meta Serif ff Nexus ff Unit New Web FontFonts → ff Info Text FF Info Display

“Shortcuts are not always good. Take the long road around the FF Info Correspondence corners”

Erik Spiekermann’s and Ole Schäfer’s FF Info Office is the ff Info Text Regular Italic You ff Info Text Book Italic typeface Erik Spiekermann himself feels should be more ff Info Text Medium Italic are popular “because it works well on screen and is really ff Info Text Semi Bold Italic here ff Info Text Bold Italic cool but nobody has found it behind the larger FF Info FF Info Display Regular Text and Display families.” It has been renamed FF Info FF Info Display Book FF Info Display Medium Correspondence to avoid confusion with the Office font FF Info Display Semi Bold format. The complete FF Info family, one of the best FF Info Display Bold 35 fonts ff info FF Info Correspondence Regular Italic fontfont.com/fonts/info-correspondence wayfinding type systems, was carefully fine-tuned and fontfont.com/fonts/info-text FF Info Correspondence Medium Italic fontfont.com/fonts/info-display has now been upgraded to Pro language support. FF Info Correspondence Bold Italic Pictograms: Info Pict One | Two | Three | Four I ⑯ Váci Street n Baldwin Street o Camden Plaça Catalunya High Street Tarlabaşı Bulvarı Krakowskie putrajaya Przedmiescie Abbey Road Kungsportsavenyn Spreuerhofstraße 5 AV The Champs-Élysées f journey is the Strøget District reward Łódź Hãna Highway 9 de Julio s Śródmieście ף יִ שּׁ תה קּ להתראות דּ תה הוא משקה מכיל קפאין המיוצר על ידי השריית עלים או ניצנים של שיח הקמיליה סיננסיס פ מסורה במים חמים. גּ אני לא מדבר ff Meta Erik Spiekermann’s ff Meta is the ,foundation of the FontFont library ת released at the label’s inception 36 fonts ff meta hebrew Hebrew and still a signature of the brand. צ fontfont.com/fonts/meta Its ancestor – PT55 (1985) – was conceived for the West German Post Office (Deutsche Bundespost) as an economical typeface for use at small point sizes, but once ff Meta was released to the public it was used for nearly װ everything, quickly becoming one of the most שלום ױ popular typefaces of the computer era. It has שמונה been called the “Helvetica of the ’90s” – not because the two typefaces have anything ae- sthetically in common – but because ff Meta fulfills so well the needs of modern communication. In 2011 Oded Ezer designed a Hebrew

תה/version for Book and Bold. http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki It took three years and three designers Obviously, a serif Meta needs to fit to develop ff Meta Serif. All through in with the existing ff Meta family. ff Meta the 90s, Erik Spiekermann made seve- Through their combined experience, ral attempts at designing a counterpart the designers created a typeface with for his groundbreaking ff Meta. Fans metrics that are not mathematically Serif of ff Meta frequently asked him which identical to ff Meta, but optically the The character set has been expanded serif face would best complement same. Now what you see is what you to include Greek and Cyrillic it. He recommended Swift, Minion, get, a harmonious serif/sans type ff Clifford, and others, until he rea- system. While it is a typeface that can lized that he should just buckle down stand up on its own in a wide range of and draw his own serif companion. applications, the extra benefit of True to his principle of collaborati- ff Meta Serif is its close relationship 367 on, Spiekermann enlisted the help of to its sans serif sister. The two fami- accomplished type designers Christian lies can be mixed in the same line and Schwartz and Kris Sowersby. one can be used to accentuate the 37 fonts ff meta serif → other. Using both on the same page fontfont.com/fonts/meta-serif M adds variety and meaning to a text. latin Capital letter M ↓ 004d

ff Meta Serif Book καφές ff Meta Serif is available in four & Book Italic Кофе weights: Book, Medium, Bold, and ff Meta Serif Medium Black, each with Italics. All styles & Medium Italic Алкоголь ζάχαρη include Small Caps, lining 123 and ff Meta Serif Bold Удовольствие oldstyle figures 123 in proportional & Bold Italic and tabular widths, and a range of ff Meta Serif Black → arrows and other symbols •. With & Black Italic Молоко γάλα the help of Ralph du Carrois, its cha- Напитки μαντολάτο racter set has now been expanded to greek include Greek and Cyrillic. д A Ψ cyrillic ff Nexus Serif

ff Nexus Sans

ff Nexus Mix

& Between 1988 and 1994 Martin Majoor designed FF Nexus Typewriter ff Scala and ff Scala Sans. The idea behind ff Scala was to design a humanistic serif typeface from ff Nexus Sans which a sans serif version would be derived. Majoor ff Nexus Sans Italic called it: two typefaces, one form principle, and it •n ff Nexus Sans Bold would become the basis of his type ff Nexus Sans Bold Italic 38 fonts ff nexus design philosophy. Since ff Scala’s fontfont.com/fonts/nexus-sans fontfont.com/fonts/nexus-serif •x fontfont.com/fonts/nexus-mix release, the combination of a serif fontfont.com/fonts/nexus-typewriter ff Nexus Mix and sans version has proven to be ff Nexus Mix Italic highly successful in corporate, book, and newspaper •s ff Nexus Mix Bold design. Ten years later, Majoor expanded his idea of ff Nexus Mix Bold Italic two typefaces, one form principle into three typefaces, one form principle, with a new family of typefaces as ff Nexus Serif ff Nexus Serif Italic a result. ff Nexus borrows some of its structure ff Nexus Serif Bold from ff Scala, but adds the slab-like ff Nexus Mix ff Nexus Serif Bold Italic and monospaced FF Nexus Typewriter to the set. Its OpenType layout features, such as built-in FF Nexus Typewriter small caps, alternate glyphs, and optional swash FF Nexus Typewriter Italic glyphs make it an extremely versatile type system. FF Nexus Typewriter Bold FF Nexus Typewriter Bold Italic γεια23 σου!¢ π 55 ff Profile ταξίδι γραμματόσημο now includes Greek πείρα δ ! μήνυμα▵ ▵▵

Martin Wenzel’s ff Profile is one ofΰ the most γράμμα beautiful humanist sans serifs in the FontFont μίλα επιτέλους! library. This clear, uncluttered and attractive family based on the broad-nibbed pen was already 39 fonts ff profile γράφω available in OpenType Pro format. Its character fontfont.com/fonts/profile Τα πολλά λόγια set has now been expanded to include Greek. Ãą είναι φτώχια. and not just Greek

Μάτια που δε βλέπονται, →Βοήθα με να σε γρήγορα Light Italic βοηθώ ν’ ανεβούμε λησμονιούνται. Regular Italic Medium Italic το βουνό. Bold Italic προφίλ Black Italic μήνυμα μίλα επιτέλους! → ff Unit | ff Unit Slab ↰ incl. Greek and Cyrillic ff Unit was designed by Erik Spiekermann and produced by Christian Schwartz. ff Unit is the grown-up, no-nonsense sister of Боље врабац у руци, Spiekermann’s famous ff Meta. | With ff Unit, puppy fat is off, some curves are gone and the shapes are tighter. While ff Meta has него голуб на грани. always been a little out-of-line and not exactly an over-engineered Где ти много обећавају, typeface, ff Unit is less outspoken and more disciplined. | It is – like ff Meta – very suitable for use quite small and large, but малу торбу понеси. FF Unit lacks some of the diagonal strokes and curves that give ff Meta its slight informality. | However, ff Unit is not cold or 40 fonts ff unit uptight, just cool: no redundant ornamentation, just a lot of fontfont.com/fonts/unit кад мачке нема, fontfont.com/fonts/unit-slab character. The tighter shapes make it suitable for big headlines 2fontfont.com/fonts/unit-rounded мишеви коло воде. set tight. | Smaller sizes benefit from the increased contrast between vertical and horizontal strokes and open spacing. Thin ff unit ff unit slab and Light perform well set large, displaying the characters to Thin Italic Thin Italic their advantage. | There is a great difference in weight between Light Italic Light Italic Κρασί Κι αλήθεια. Regular Italic Regular Italic the Thin and Ultra, providing a good range of weights for cont- Medium Italic Medium Italic Η περιέργεια είναι η rasting combinations. Alternate characters (a/a, g/g, i/i, j/j, l/l, Bold Italic Bold Italic U/U, M/M) make for interesting headlines. | The small caps are Black Italic Black Italic αρχή της σοφίας. a bit larger than normal, making them suitable for abbreviations Ultra Italic Ultra Italic and acronyms. The many weights include old style, regular, and Είπε ο γάιδαρος tabular figures. FF Unit Pro is now available with Cyrillic and Greek character sets. The entire FF Unit super family consists of ↖ τον πετεινό κεφάλα. FF Unit, FF Unit Slab, and FF Unit Rounded. | New! Ra Ra ff Balance ff Chambers Sans Web FontFonts Ra Ra ff Ernestine ff Info 2011 Correspondence Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra ff Info Display ff Info Text ff Isonorm ff Magda ff More ff Nexus Sans ff Nexus Serif 41 fonts web fontfonts headline: ff Quadraat Sans fontname: ff Unit Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra ff Nexus Mix ff Nexus ff Nuvo Mono ff OCR-F ff Oxide ff Profile ff QType Typewriter Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra ff QType Square ff Sanuk ff Sari ff Sero ff Signa Serif ff Signa ff Signa Serif Stencil Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra ff Signa ff Spinoza ff Tartine Script ff Tundra ff Utility ff Zwo ff Zwo Correspondence Correspondence d. inside fontfont Facts & Figures Meet the Type Department Facts —in the office —fontfonts & Most awarded Number of Figures FontFont FontFont Designers Meetings per Year Average shoe size ff Spinoza 160 EU US Too many FontFont Designer Distribution and a half 40 7½

Number of Screens Number of colleagues’ 47 newborns Boys Girls

Mozilla Blackberry 0.71% yahoo 0.76% The smallest Netherlands Antilles 800km² Compatible iPod Nokia 0.16% bing 0.71% Internet Agent and 5.49% others 0.12% search 0.22% and biggest Explorer Russian Federation 12.87% Others yandex 0.17% country from 4.53% Android others 0.15% which we Firefox 16.02% 35.62% receive orders 17,075,400km² Safari Top 5 01. ff OCR–F 21.39% iPad iPhone 27.9% 50% FontFonts with 02. ff Dagny google the biggest sales 03. ff Bau Chrome 97.97% 25.59% increase in 2011 04. ff Clan 05. ff Milo/ff Milo Serif Facts & —from ff designers —twitter —our favorite tweets of the year Figures The best concert Twitter followers of the year? If writer Philip K. Dick If you are reading this were still alive and on then stop it and GET BACK * facebook, one could get TO WORK. “Poked” by “Dick” —Pete Warren Mogwai 15,396 —Timothy Donaldson Jörg Hemker Essentially Mogwai’s music is all I pissed on my cat last about structure and rhythm, just Your eyes doesn’t change night (neither of us are like type design. Tweets total when looking at type proud of it) on different devices. A —Timothy Donaldson * good typeface is a good БГ и Аквариум typeface. Julia (BG and Aquarium) 1,840 —Göran Söderström @fontlaberrors Sysmäläinen Oh FontLab, you son of a Nizhni Novgorod, April. *on December 19th, 2011 44 inside facts & figures BG (Boris Grebenschikov) is a one software! fonts: ff More and ff Good of the “founding fathers” of Rus- don’t “LOL” when you can! —Yanone sian rock music and my absolute The favorite dish Don’t !! when you can! And favorite artist. of the year never !? OR ?! when you can ‽ I have nothing to tweet —Timothy Donaldson and I’m tweeting it. The iTunes song(s) played Number of photos taken Red cabbage the most often in 2011 in 2011 Erik van —Timothy Donaldson salad Blokland Just paid a woman to Stefanie Schwarz yanone Red cabbage salad with red onions and spicy clamp my jaw open, stick digital dressing. Or homemade pumpkin soup with her fist in my mouth, stab New Font Classification: David Bowie ginger. me with needles & drill Category 1: The Fonts I 01. various albums holes in my bones. Ah, Need Right Now. Category Amy Winehouse l’amour du dentiste. 2: The Fonts I Do Not Need Back to black Right Now. 02. Masaman —Pete Warren Pink Floyd —Letteror (EvB) (it426 was more than that but I delete the 03. Dark side of the moon bad ones on the spot) curry Xavier Dupré analog My favorite dish this year is Masaman curry Fact: Google.com gives Johannes Erler because I’ve eaten this curry for years but better results if you add Just mispelled “larger” and recently, I learnt to cook it by myself. This is “please” to the query. typed “lager”. Mmm. Lager. Amy Winehouse a Thai curry with coconut milk and peanuts. —Letteror (EvB) —Pete Warren 01. Love is a losing game zero Aroy mah khap! Andreas Inka Meet the Type department Have you been curious about the team behind the production process of all of our FontFonts? Here’s a short Jens interview with the characters in our type department.

45 inside type department headline and copy: ff Sero Christoph questions: ff Nexus Serif Caption: ff Mister K Informal Andreas Frohloff Christoph Koeberlin — Head of Type Department — Font Technician If you were a FontFont which one would you be and why? If you were a FontFont which one would you be and why? ff Amman because the family is well designed in the sense ff Quadraat Sans SC Web Pro Condensed Extra Light Italic, that it’s not so digital-smooth and glossy.The characters of DirectWrite rendered at 31 px — for obvious reasons! the fonts have character :) ff quadraat sans condensed ff Amman Serif/Sans What is your favorite music? What is your favorite music? Gebrüder Marx, currently. I like a broad range of music e.g. Jethro Tull, Neil Young, What was the biggest challenge for you in 2011? Keb’ Mo’ or Norah Jones … Answering these questions! What was the biggest challenge for you in 2011? The biggest challenge was to successfully perform calligraphy workshops at the TYPO London. ○Would you like to know more about our Type Department? Check out this video: → www.vimeo.com/15232514

Inka Strotmann Jens Kutilek — Chief Font Technician — Font Technician If you were a FontFont which one would you be and why? If you were a FontFont which one would you be and why? I would be ff Schmalhans Bold. Schmalhans is a very con- I actually had to ask my wife about this, it’s always hard to 46 inside type department densed font with a large x-height and was first drawn in the compare yourself to something like a typeface … headline and copy: ff Sero questions: ff Nexus Serif 70s. Like me, I was born in the 70s. I have wide legs, I am I would be ff Spinoza. At first sight, it looks quite sober and not really fat but I am broad in the beam so I look like con- not very fancy, but once you get to know it better, you will densed bold. Schmalhans is very clear and I am also very discover interesting details and how it can take you a long straight in the things I like to do. way. I’m also more book than display type. FF Schmalhans Bold ff Spinoza What is your favorite music? What is your favorite music? My favorite band is, for over 20 years now, Current 93. My all-time favorite band has to be The Magnetic Fields, for What was the biggest challenge for you in 2011? their stylistic experiments and unparalleled lyrical wit. Earlier I had to draw my first uppercase German double s. It will be this year I kept listening to the various Johnny Cash concerts interesting to see if this glyph will be used and which form recorded in prisons. It was fascinating how different the will be the favorite. My big private event this year was my atmosphere and performances were between them. first individual time trial. I trained a lot with my triathlon What was the biggest challenge for you in 2011? bike to achieve a good result and I was very happy with my To move into a new flat. I had completely forgotten how time at the end. time-consuming and work-intensive that was. e. almost the end Imprint Version 2.0 now available! FontBookBuy! The world’s most comprehensive typographic reference tool. Now an iPad App.

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The Wuppertal musician, instrument builder, graphic designer The ff Dax family was gradually augmented with and type designer Hans Reichel suddenly and unex- compact, condensed and wide versions, and italics pectedly passed away in his studio on November 22, for all variants. 2011. Designers and typographers know him as the Also ff Dax was subsequently revisited. Seeing Akira creator of the popular Barmeno and the world-renow- Kobayashi’s lecture about Adrian Frutiger’s Avenir ned ff Dax family. Other type designs by Reichel are Next at TYPO Berlin 2004 inspired Hans Reichel to ff Daxline, ff Sari, ff Schmalhans, and ff Routes. start working on ff Daxline. The improved proportions Hans Reichel appeared on the type scene with his first and increased stress make it better suited for text design Barmeno, an idiosyncratic sans serif released use. Personally Reichel thought ff Daxline to be the in 1983 by Berthold. He would revisit this concept of a better typeface — it is clearer, airier and more rounded spurless design in 1999 with ff Sari. Expan- versatile. Reichel toyed with the idea of creating a ding on his original ideas he devised a more versatile condensed version, but wasn’t sure if he’d still be and complete interpretation, with a wider range of able to swing it at his “retirement age”. Sadly, now weights and a comprehensive character set. we will never know.

Photo: Marc Eckardt Although Barmeno and ff Sari enjoyed seizable success, Through the music he created, through the instruments he Hans Reichel’s real breakthrough as a type designer built, and through the typefaces he designed Hans came with the typographic powerhouse ff Dax. Reichel shone as a fiercely original voice. With the Slightly more angular and systematic than its prede- disappearance of this multitalented maverick artist cessor, this immensely popular type family has the type and music world is left a little poorer. become arguably one of the most used advertising faces worldwide since its release fifteen years ago. IMPRINT fsi FontShop International GmbH Bergmannstraße 102 10961 Berlin Germany

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See you in 2012.