Canada Type News | October 2007

Font Releases:

-Dutch Mediaeval Condensed & Initials: Dutch Mediaeval Condensed is the narrow 4-style companion to the popular and quintessential Dutch Mediaeval family. It comes in two weights and corresponding italics. Also included is the Dutch Mediaeval Initials set, based on the classic Hollandse Initials originally designed by S. H. de Roos.

-Fab: Fab is Canada Type's tribute to the Eighties. It's a five-font unicase family that brings tube design into the 21st century. The main font is an all-in-one treatment of the shiny roundness that the 1980s were. Fab White is a tightly packed thick outline font that conveys luscious contentedness like nothing else. The Fab Trio package is very useful for layered and colorful design, with the Black style serving as a backdrop, the Bold style as the front forms, and the Fill style for inlining.

-Walter: This broad pen classic is a revival of Walter MacKay's Heritage font, made for ATF in 1952. Walter is clean and legible free-flowing calligraphy with a subdued, conservative and traditional letterform base that can be used in large sizes for posters, covers and packaging, as well as in small sizes for personalized letters, poetry and quotables.

-Reiner Hand: One of the earliest fonts published by Canada Type was Alamanc, Phil Rutter's digitization of Imre Reiner's 1957 calligraphic typeface, London Script. In 2007, when the font was revisited for an update, it was shown that it too light for applications under 24 pt, and too irregular for applications over 64 pt. So the face was redigitized from scratch, using larger originals. This new digitization maintains a soft contour and, slightly darker and steadier stroke, and much better outlines for use at both extremes of scaling. Language support was also greatly expanded, and many alternates and ligatures were added to the redigitized character set. The name was also changed to Reiner Hand, to better reflect the origins of the design.

October 2007 Notes:

- Congratulations to Carsten Pasternack from Germany, Fran�ois Sanchez from France, and Laura Granberry and Susan Prager from the USA. They were the winners of last month's random draw. The next draw will happen on November 2, and four from our October customers will receive their choice of any Canada Type font package (excluding value packs). Winners will be notified by email by November 5.

Thanks for spending some time with Canada Type, and see you again in November.