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De: MyFonts News [[email protected]]Enviado em: tera-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2015 13:12Para: [email protected]: Rising Stars January 2015

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The MyFonts newsletter for popular new fonts

Each month, MyFontseditorial team selects its Rising Stars fromthe best-selling fonts on our constantly changing Hot New Fontslist. As we choose the best-selling fonts from various genres, thisnewsletter is a pretty reliable barometer of trends in type. Thismonths selection is a case in point: the four families featuredrepresent four popular genres from whimsical display suite tomodernist sans. The section of promising text fonts is particularly

interesting this month: its probably the first time were notfeaturing a single sans-serif text font. Each of these families is asmart and contemporary variety on the oldstyle book face modest machines for reading, but without a trace of nostalgia.Enjoy!

This Months Rising Stars

Last month we interviewed Carlos Fabin Camargo Guerrero ofColombias Andinistas for our monthly Creative Characters series.One family that was prominently featured was Camargos latest,Cereal. It is a suite of lively hand-drawn script and display faces,with a load of shadow effects, banners, dingbats and catchwordsthrown in for good measure. Taken as a whole, the family exudes acozy, homely shabbiness. The various styles can be used togetherto create informal layouts, but also work well individually. Thiscollection will be very much at home on posters, personalstationery, book covers and magazine layouts.

Possibly the most unusual and striking text family of recent timesis Fazeta by Slovakias Andrej Diene. It is an ambitious project,offering three optically optimized versions for use in different sizescaptions, body text, and headlines. With its vertical thick-thincontrast it is a sort of contemporary Didone, but it manages tosteer clear of the usual rigid look of this category. Inspired bytypefaces from 1960s Czechoslovakia from designers such as


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Like all of Hoftypes type families, the new Mangan is a trustworthymodern workhorse. Designer Dieter Hofrichter is a mastercraftsman who manages to add something new to each genre andsub-genre he tackles. With Mangan he has found a delicate balancebetween classic elegance and contemporary efficiency; the result isa vivid family with a high degree of functionality. The Manganfamily comes in seven weights plus italics, and is well suited forambitious typography. All weights contain small caps, ordinals,ligatures, and multiple figure styles with matching currencysymbols, plus a useful set of arrows.Mangan is on sale until March 2nd, 2015.

Dutch designer Gerard Unger is one of the most original minds incontemporary type design. He started his career in a time when thechallenges of new type rendering technologies demanded smartanswers. His 1975 text font Demos was just that: an unorthodox,personal exercise in legibility under less-than-ideal conditions.

Linotypes Demos Next typeface family is a complete revision andexpansion to Ungers classic. This new version introduces subtlechanges to character shapes, proportions and spacing, optimizingthe design for todays technology. The new family has six weightsplus italics and includes small caps and oldstyle figures, making ita versatile toolkit for complex design projects.

Leo is a new family from Dutchman Hans van Maanen, produced incollaboration with Canada Types Patrick Griffin. The family was

designed as an economic text face for demanding editorialtypography. Designed with the explicit intent of relaying complexinformation without calling attention to itself, Leo avoidsexpressivity and was built with as little ornamentation as possible.Its italics, rather than following traditional models with very diverseshapes, have a regularity that is closely related to the stance andrhythm of their roman counterparts. Each of its fonts contains over700 glyphs and supports the vast majority of Latin languages; theycome with built-in small caps, multiple figure styles, and optionallong descenders for optimal line space management.

News Round-UpIn this section we pick out interesting news snippets from MyFontsown kitchen and from the greater world of fonts, lettering andtypography.

TypeCon comes to Denver

TypeCons photo of Denver by Bryan Simmons via Wikimedia Commons ( CC BY-SA 3.0 )This years edition of TypeCon, the North American get-together of


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type designers and typography buffs, will come to a region theconference hasnt visited before: the American South-West. Forvisitors from the Americas as well as Europe this is a great occasionto visit Denver as well as the Great Outdoors of Colorado; fordesigners and students from the region, a unique chance to meettheir heroes in type design and research. TypeCon 2015 takes placefrom August 12 through 16, but theres a reason why wereannouncing it this early. The success of the event depends to a largeextent on the commitment of its volunteers, and now is the time tosign up. Those willing to invest time and energy into this high-quality conference can contact its initiators, the Society ofTypographic Aficionados (SoTA) via the website.

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