Fontworks Newsletter | March 2003 - HOT OFF THE PRESS: NEW FONTWORKS PRINTED SPECIMENS AVAILABLE
We've just taken delivery of our brand new reference booklets for LUCASFONTS, Luc (as) de Groot's eclectic foundry, and LINOTYPE LIBRARY showcasing the work of Alessio Leonardi, Franko Luin, and an overview of the company's CD products including the pioneering Platinum Collections (Frutiger Next, Syntax, Univers etc). Designed, as ever, to fit inside your FONTBOX, our legendary storage tool. Contact sales if you'd like to buy one stuffed full of booklets, posters, flyers and exclusives from the likes of Alias, Club 21, ShinnType, Font Bureau, G-Type, Acme & Identikal. - SENSATIONAL LINOTYPE LIBRARY SALE#1:
SINGLE WEIGHTS NOW AN AMAZING £15.95 each!
For a limited period only you can now buy and download classic Linotype, Adobe, ITC and Monotype single weights for an amazing £15.95 each. Neue Helvetica, Frutiger, Adobe Garamond, Univers, Gill Sans - they're all here! We can't hold these prices for long so get clicking and start saving. Use the font search tool to find your weights! - SENSATIONAL LINOTYPE LIBRARY SALE#2:
ITC & TAKETYPE 4 BUNDLE FOR ONLY £449!
Bargain of the year is probably the ITC COLLECTION, 840 fonts strong, available for an unbelievably low price of £399 ex VAT & delivery. Stuffed full of classic text faces (Franklin Gothic, Charlotte Sans etc) and must-have Fontek display weights, this library will more than satisfy the needs of design studios and companies working to a budget. Everything you need is here - classical designs like ITC Bodoni and modern fonts such as ITC Malstock, retro (e.g. ITC Mona Lisa) and revival styles (e.g. Isis) galore. Be quick as we have very few left! TAKETYPE 4 contains 182 new and funky fonts in all formats on one great value CD. The featured fonts are fresh and original, experimental and freaky and above all contemporary, while at the same time maintaining excellent Linotype standards. Normal price is £99 ex VAT & delivery. Please contact our sales dept. on +44 20 7226 4411 or sales to take advantage of this limited edition bundle offer. - CHEVIN: NEW G-TYPE RELEASE EXCLUSIVE TO FONTWORKS
Exceptional type designer Nick Cooke ('Houschka', 'Precious', 'Nubian' etc) has added a wonderful rounded typeface to his collection. CHEVIN (pronounced 'Shevin'), a 6 weight family named after one of Cooke's local beauty spots, is elegant and functional, equally at home in body text, display and especially signage. Italics will follow soon but for now check out the uprights by viewing the CHEVIN PDF - PDF BONANZA!: NEW ADDITIONS FROM DARREN SCOTT, FATHOM & G-TYPE
Go to our PDF download area and feast on a bumper selection of new PDF booklets and flyers. Fathom have produced a poster to promote the 'Shooter' typeface and Darren Scott's new font 'Nitrogen' should catch your eye. Or what about the new italics for G-Type's 'Nubian'? Do we treat you well or what? - FOREIGN LANGUAGE BLUES? YOU NEED "CONVERTEX"
If you're having difficulties using or translating documents with text set in Cyrillic, Greek or Central European languages then we have the ideal software to assist you - Convertex. Convertex will re-encode the original document to either Mac or PC format allowing you to seamlessly import the original text without needing to re-key a thing. Contact us (tel: +44 20 7226 4411 or sales ) for more details or a free flyer. - FORTHCOMING TYPE EVENTS
Following hot on the heels of Creative Review's excellent event at Pentagram recently which featured our very own Jonathan Barnbrook (VIRUS) and Julian Morey (CLUB 21) we have a few more gigs to tell you about.
- WARTIME TYPE FRIVOLITY!
How prophetic was Jon Barnbrook's APOCALYPSO typeface, released over 5 years ago? Check out the gif and make your own mind up. Oh well, if you're looking for some war stress relief why not try your hand at the ACME TYPE SNAKE game |
