Canada Type News | March 2007

Font Releases:

-Dutch Mediaeval: Dutch Mediaeval is a text family based on Hollandse Mediaeval, the 1912 Sjoerd Hendrik deRoos classic, arguably the most popular Dutch text face of the 20th century. Over the years, many typographers and pressmen have gushed loving words about this typeface in metal, and now it comes to digital life in wonderful and expert style. An extended family of two weights, corresponding italics, and small caps across the board, Dutch Mediaeval is a veritable workhorse that flows comfortably, with the elegance and sensibility of the main weights nicely complemented by the sturdiness of the bolds. Very few text faces are this clean and inviting.

-Guillotine: Guillotine is a thick poster classic, mechanically constructed yet clearly exhibiting the idiosyncratic traits of hand drawing. Its forms embody the amalgamation of a multitude of influences, such as woodcut letters, punch card forms, and the unique art nouveau concepts that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. The totality of the font is a strong display aesthetic that plays very well anywhere the eye is meant to see a strong but casual, sharp but hand crafted message.

-Hydrogen: Hydrogen is a clean geometric unicase family that expresses the mechanics, expansive technologies and conflicted ethics of the rapidly changing 21st century. By popular demand, it is the round and streamlined counterpart of Oxygen. Coupled with the right measure of Oxygen, Hydrogen becomes water, the ace of elements Ñ rhythmic, dynamic, ever-flowing, and understood by everyone. Hydrogen comes in three weights and corresponding italics. Round and crisp outlines cover plenty of expressive ground, and a lot of built-in alternates help your message transform, adapt, and reinvent itself many times over. It is the David Bowie of typefaces.

March 2007 Notes:

- The character sets of our Doobie, Fontella and Rush fonts have been upgraded to include support for Central and Eastern European languages, Baltic, Turkish, Esperanto, Maltese, and Celtic/Welsh. As usual, the newly upgraded fonts are available at no charge to anyone who already owns a license to them.

- Dutch Mediaeval, one of this month's releases, marks Canada Type's momentous entry in text face design. We will be releasing a few more text faces this year, so keep looking out for our monthly news.

- Congratulations to Denis Wischniewski from Germany, Jerry Tapscott from the UK, and Karie Jamieson and John Pennock from the USA. They were the winners of last month's random draw. The next draw will happen on April 1, and four lucky ones from our March customers will receive their choice of any Canada Type font package (excluding value packs). Winners will be notified by email on April 3. Good luck!

Thanks for checking out Canada Type, and see you again in April.