Canada Type News | November 2007

Font Releases:

-Celebrity: Celebrity's construct combines extreme thicks with hairline thins to build forms that contribute to a type totality that is at once modern and techno, as well as retro-deco. Eye catching and memorable, Celebrity is ideal for use on posters, book covers, media sleeves and packaging. It also has enough geometric appeal to inspire unique logos and set attractive titling.

-Social Gothic: Social Gothic is a unicase font that successfully achieves a hand-made look by combining standard sans serif type elements with some "chiseled" wooden shapes and friendly rounded lowercase components. The totality of the face is clean, legible, with an impact that is quite conservative and easy on the eyes, even almost humanist, in spite of the individual standard forms used.

-Miedinger: This is a revival of Max Miedinger's "other" face, Horizontal from 1964. The original film face was a simple set of bold, panoramically wide caps and figures that give off a first impression of being an ultra wide Gothic incarnation of Microgramma. Upon a second look, they are clearly more than that. This face is a quirky, very non-Akzidental take on the vernacular, mostly an exercise in geometric modularity, but also includes some unconventional solutions to typical problems (like thinning the midline strokes across the board to minimize clogging in three-storey forms). This digital version introduces a new lighter weight alongside the bold original.

November 2007 Notes:

- By popular demand, our Jupiter family gets a bold counterpart. Those who already have a commercial use license for Jupiter should have received a 33% off upgrade offer for the bold. If you haven't received the note, please let us know and we'll set things straight for you.

- Thanks very much to those emailing us about our upcoming Ronaldson family. Rebecca has been hard at work at it for more than a year now, and it is now in the final stages of design and testing. It will be our first release of 2008, and we promise you a very nice family that covers plenty of design ground. Your wait will be worth it.

- Congratulations to Matthias Scharpf from Germany, Maureen Morin from Canada, Geralda van der Es from the Netherlands, and Victoria Wahl from the USA. They were the winners of last month's random draw. The next draw will happen on December 1, 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 December 4.

Thanks for your time with Canada Type, and see you again in December.