TYPE SUPPLY Balto vllg.com Balto TYPE SUPPLY Balto ABOUT vllg.com I have a longstanding passion for the classic American Gothic typeface style. The style dates back over a century, and like so many things American, its origins can be traced across the ocean and through generations. There have been numerous interpretations of the style, but, frankly, none of them capture the unpretentious, sturdy and versatile soul that I admire so much. I have been working on capturing these attributes in my own version of the style for as long as I have been drawing typefaces. TYPE SUPPLY Balto ABOUT vllg.com In Balto, I have focused on emphasizing the base ideas of the style rather than particular visual attributes, quirks or artifacts of bygone type technologies. This allowed me to rethink many common assumptions about the shapes of the letterforms and the result is a clean, modern typeface that honors the noble history of the American Gothic. TYPE SUPPLY Balto ABOUT vllg.com WEIGHTS & StYLES 8 feature-rich OpenType weights in Roman & Italic Thin Thin Italic Light Light Italic Book Book Italic Medium Medium Italic Bold Bold Italic Black Black Italic Super Super Italic Ultra Ultra Italic TYPE SUPPLY Balto ABOUT vllg.com TYPE SUPPLY Tal Leming / 2014 Hello, I’m Tal Leming. Type Supply is me. Well, technically it’s the Limited Liability publications, brands and so on. It’s a lot of fun and I’m lucky to be able to work with Corporation that I work for. Anyway, I design fonts and lettering. It’s fun. I can design so many interesting, smart, awesome clients and colleagues. something for you, too. Over the years I’ve done a lot of type technology work. I co-authored the Web Open I’ve had a fascination with the shapes of letters since I was a student in the Louisiana Font Format (woff) specification and was part of the working group that moved State University School of Art Graphic Design Program. (Class of ’97. Geaux Tigers.) it through the W3C’s recommendation process. I’ve written OpenType feature code I made my first font when I was a freshman there. It was terrible. After graduation for my friends at House Industries, Commercial Type and Typotheque that has I spent the first part of my career as a graphic designer focusing on corporate made fonts do things that they had never done before. I’m co-author of the Unified identity, point of sale, etc. All along I kept drawing letters and eventually I tricked the Font Object (ufo) specification and my colleagues appointed me ‘Benevolent folks at House Industries into giving me a job. I designed printed ephemera there Dictator for Life of the ufo.’ (I’m still more than a little overwhelmed by that.) for several years and then I started Type Supply. I’m the developer of several type design tools and I’ve written a lot of code that helps many type designers with their day-to-day work. All that said, I’m trying to spend My primary focus now is the design of typefaces for myself and others. You may most of my time drawing these days. I like writing code just fine, but nothing beats have seen some of these, especially if you’ve watched sports, read about sports, drawing letters. visited a toy store, visited a children’s book store, bought groceries or been exposed to popular culture in general. I also occasionally dabble in lettering for TYPE SUPPLY Balto ABOUT vllg.com DEtaiLS SupportED LanguagES Features & licensing Balto offers extensive language support Balto contains eight unique weights, each with a matching ISO 8859–1 / Latin1 Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, English (UK & US), italic. The middle weights work well in sizes from tiny Faroese, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish (new orthography), to giant, the lighter weights excel at large sizes in situations Italian, Kurdish (The Kurdish Unified Alphabet), Latin (basic classical orthography), Leonese, Luxembourgish (basic classical orthography), that need a delicate touch and the heavy weights are Norwegian (Bokmål & Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese (Portuguese & Brazilian), perfect for any situation that needs the opposite of a Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Walloon delicate touch. ISO 8859–2 / Latin2 Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (when in the Latin script), Slovak, Slovene, Upper Sorbian & Lower Sorbian Balto is available for three kinds of licensing: standard, webfonts & dynamic embedding. ISO 8859–3 / Latin3 Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish ISO 8859–4 / Latin4 Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, Sami ISO 8859–9 / Latin5 Turkish ISO 8859–10 / Latin6 Nordic languages TYPE SUPPLY Balto UPPErcaSE / Roman / Ultra / 120 pt. vllg.com ABCDEFG HIJKLM NOPQRST UVWXYZ TYPE SUPPLY Balto UPPErcaSE / Italic / Book / 120 pt. vllg.com ABCDEFG HIJKLM NOPQRST UVWXYZ TYPE SUPPLY Balto LowErcaSE / Roman / Thin / 120 pt. vllg.com abcdefghi jklmnopqrs tuvwxyz TYPE SUPPLY Balto LowErcaSE / Italic / Medium / 120 pt. vllg.com abcdefghi jklmnopqrs tuvwxyz TYPE SUPPLY Balto UPPErcaSE / Roman / All weights / 60 pt. vllg.com ABSQUATULATING BLANKETFLOWERS CIRCUMSCRIBING DECAMETHONIUMS ERYTHROPOIETIC FERRIMAGNETISMS GRANDILOQUENCE HETEROCHROMATICS TYPE SUPPLY Balto UPPErcaSE / Italic / All weights / 60 pt. vllg.com INCOMBUSTIBILITY JUXTAPOSITIONS KINDERGARTENERS LIGNOSULFONATE MEGAGAMETOPHYTE NONQUANTIFIABLE OPHTHALMOLOGICAL PALEOBOTANICALLY TYPE SUPPLY Balto LowErcaSE / Roman / All weights / 60 pt. vllg.com quantificational rechromatographs spectrophotometry triskaidekaphobias ultramicroscopically valetudinarianism warmheartednesses xeroradiographies TYPE SUPPLY Balto LowErcaSE / Italic / All weights / 60 pt. vllg.com autobiographers bourgeoisification chlordiazepoxides dendrochronological establishmentarian forethoughtfulnesses gedankenexperiment handcraftsmanship TYPE SUPPLY Balto TEXT SETTING / Bold, Medium & Book / Roman & Italic / 9 pt. vllg.com BALTO (1919 – March 14, 1933) was a Siberian Husky On February 2, 1925, the Norwegian Gunnar Kaasen BALto was not destined to be a star in the breeding shed sled dog who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 drove his team, led by Balto, into Nome. The longest and since he was neutered at a young age, hence he was serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin most hazardous stretch of the run was actually covered relegated to being neglected on the vaudeville circuit with was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, by another Norwegian, Leonhard Seppala and his his team. When Kassen wished to return home to Alaska, Alaska, by train and then to Nome by dog sled dog team, led by Togo. They came from Nome towards his dogs were sold to the highest bidder by the company to combat an outbreak of the disease.The run is the end of the run and picked up the serum from who sponsored his tour. The dogs ended up chained in commemorated by the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog musher Henry Ivanoff. The serum was later passed to a small area in a novelty museum and freak show in Race. Balto was named after the Sami explorer Kaasen. Balto proved himself on the Iditarod trail, Los Angeles. While visiting Los Angeles, George Kimble, Samuel Balto. Balto died at the age of 14 due to old saving his team in the Topkok River. Balto was also able a former prize fighter turned businessman from Cleveland, age. In January 1925 doctors realized that a potentially to stay on the trail in near whiteout conditions; Kaasen was shocked to discover the dogs were unhealthy and deadly diphtheria epidemic was poised to sweep stated he could barely see his hand in front of his badly treated. Mr. Kimble worked together with the through Nome’s young people. The only serum that face. Balto's team did their leg of the run almost entirely newspaper, The Plain Dealer, to bring Balto and his team could stop the outbreak was in Seattle, Washington, in the dark. The final team and its sledder was asleep to Cleveland, Ohio. On March 19, 1927, Balto and six two thousand eight hundred miles (4,480 km) away. when Balto and Kaasen made it to the final stop, companions were brought to Cleveland and given a hero’s The engine of the only aircraft that could quickly so Kaasen decided to continue on. At Nome, everybody welcome in a triumphant parade. The dogs were then deliver the medicine was frozen and would not start. wanted to thank Kaasen at first, but he suggested taken to the Brookside Zoo. After Balto’s death in 1933, After considering all of the alternatives, officials giving fame to Balto as well. Togo was the star dog for his remains were mounted by a taxidermist, and donated decided to move the medicine via multiple dog sled Leonhard Seppala even before the great 1925 Serum to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. In 1965 teams. The serum was transported by train from Run. Instead of celebrating the triumph together as one Carl Barks introduced a hero dog named “Barko” as a Anchorage to Nenana, where the first musher huge team, many became jealous of the publicity Balto character in an Uncle Scrooge comic book, North of the embarked as part of a relay aimed at delivering the received, especially from President Calvin Coolidge Yukon, as an homage to Balto. In 1998 the Alaska needed serum to Nome. More than 20 mushers and the press. Seppala favored Togo, but the general Legislature passed HJR 62-‘Bring Back Balto’ resolution. took part, facing a blizzard with −23 °F (-31° C) public loved the story behind Balto, so they would take The Cleveland Museum of Natural History declined to temperatures and strong winds. a far different path after the celebrations were over. return Balto. 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