Capri is a new typeface designed by Felix Braden in the tradition of geometric typefaces from the late 20s.
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The Isle of Capri
The Isle of Capri
Aria – Inspired by inscription
Aria Pro is a new typeface consisting of only two fonts (something unusual these days with a big heap of super families swarming the market) – Regular & Italic. To describe it we use the words of the designer – Rui Abreu: “The inspiration for this typeface came from the epigraph on a frame of a nineteenth century painting
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Aria – Inspired by inscription
A rare bird
A creative collaboration between Göran Söderström (Stockholm) and Peter Bruhn (Malmö), The Satura Suite began with Göran’s concept for a reversed contrast typeface — one in which the horizontal strokes are heavy, rather than the more traditional vertical stress.
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A rare bird
The "A Conversation With" Series
We have just released the first interview , in a series of video portraits made to showcase our type designers, featuring Göran Söderström .
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The "A Conversation With" Series
Just more condensed
After making the Meadow family Göran Söderström felt the need to do a slightly more condensed version of the typeface. A version that saves a little space but has the same character. Character sets are identical, finish and quality is the same, it’s just narrower to make room for more words.
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Just more condensed
From Portugal with love
This evening we see the release of Rui Abreu’s modern slab serif. A project that started almost four years ago. It started as a rigid and geometric design, but during this long period it developed into a more organic and balanced typeface, as it moved away from the initial modularity
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From Portugal with love
Sweet Warm Meadow
Fountain happily presents a new typeface release: Meadow Pro designed by Göran Söderström. Meadow is a warm analog sans typeface for everyday use
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Sweet Warm Meadow
Typographic’s finest of 2008
Typographica is back with a new design, and a new concept.
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Typographic’s finest of 2008
Orbe is a TDC 2009 award winner!
The well renowned Type Directors Club has just announced that our typeface Orbe , designed by Rui Abreu has recieved a TDC2 2009 award. We are thrilled.
Tweet, Tweet and ReSeS!
For those of you hooked on constant reminders, and messages from other people we have a Twitter account. We’ve actually have had it for a few weeks but we thought it would be good to mention it here. The URL for this little twitter is: http://twitter.com/fountaintype The RSS for this News/Blog-thing you’re reading is: feed://www.fountaintype.com/feed
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