Find the latest FontFont Releases at the FontShop (50 and 51) or just download the 64-page FIFTY|1 Release Magazine (18MB). You can see the shown images in all their full glory on the FontFont Flickr page. Also included in the PDF: some helpful information about our latest font development, Office FontFonts, the best choice for all who work with the widely-used Office apps like Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint®.
FF Celeste by Chris Burke is a type system consisting of a Serif family, a Sans family, and a family for Small Text.
FF DIN, one of the most popular FontFont yet, finally has a Condensed Italic. More than a simple oblique, this is an optically-adjusted italic matching all five weights of FF DIN Condensed. It fits nicely into Albert-Jan Pool’s finely crafted version of the DIN model.
FF Folk is a font based on Ben Shahn’s lettering used in his paintings and lithographs. The Ben Shahn Folk Alphabet was originally created as lettering in 1940 and reconstructed and redesigned by Maurizio Osti and Jane Patterson in 1995 with the consent and approval of Mrs. Bernarda Shahn and the Estate of Ben Shahn under license from VAGA (New York). Shahn originally drew his alphabet taking inspiration from vernacular shapes - a “lettering for the illiterate” - and he called it “folk alphabet”. He felt that letters and words should have the same importance as images and drawings, and he combined them in his work.
Maurizio Osti has designed a family of fonts. He recreated two character shapes for each letter (one for the uppercase keymap position and one for the lowercase keymap position) that best capture the vibrant variety present in the original art. It is therefore possible to compose text by combining uppercase and lowercase interchangeably (UPPERCASE ONLY, lowercase only, and UpPeR aNd LoWeRcAsE) to achieve a more personally artistic effect. FF Folk Regular is inspired by “Bring back our Sons from far” (gouache and gold leaf; 40 x 26 inches); FF Folk Rough by the graphic work “Immortal Words” 1958. (Silk screen in black, 15 x 20 inches). FF Folk Light and FF Folk Rough Light have been drawn to complete the family.
Ben Shahn was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1898, and moved to the United States in 1906. He died in 1969. At an early age he developed a passion for lettering, and while a lithographer, he developed a great understanding of this artistic discipline.
Maurizio Osti has designed a family of fonts. He recreated two character shapes for each letter (one for the uppercase keymap position and one for the lowercase keymap position) that best capture the vibrant variety present in the original art. It is therefore possible to compose text by combining uppercase and lowercase interchangeably (UPPERCASE ONLY, lowercase only, and UpPeR aNd LoWeRcAsE) to achieve a more personally artistic effect. FF Folk Regular is inspired by “Bring back our Sons from far” (gouache and gold leaf; 40 x 26 inches); FF Folk Rough by the graphic work “Immortal Words” 1958. (Silk screen in black, 15 x 20 inches). FF Folk Light and FF Folk Rough Light have been drawn to complete the family.
Ben Shahn was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1898, and moved to the United States in 1906. He died in 1969. At an early age he developed a passion for lettering, and while a lithographer, he developed a great understanding of this artistic discipline.
The very first sketches of FF Mach were drawn by Łukasz Dziedzic in 2004 for a Polish magazine about culture and arts. Rigid and technical, there isn’t a single curve in the family of six weights and 3 widths (FF Mach + Condensed + Wide), but there are hundreds of inventive alternates and ligatures for setting tight, interconnected wordshapes.
Available in Standard OpenType, or a Pro version with Central European, Turkish, and Cyrillic character sets.
Available in Standard OpenType, or a Pro version with Central European, Turkish, and Cyrillic character sets.
FF Masala is as unctuous as a curry sauce with a hint of chili to add zest. Xavier Dupré’s initial idea for FF Masala was to offer a casual Sans matching FF Tartine Script. After rethinking and refining, FF Masala became a truly casual type system with three Sans weights and their Italics plus three powerful Script versions with swashes, right for logos and packaging as well as comics or children’s book covers. Despite its laidback nature, FF Masala has as much typographic prowess as any serious sans serif. Ligatures, fractions, case-sensitive forms and a full set of figure styles are included.
While creating the letterforms for FF Mister K, a typeface inspired by manuscripts of Franz Kafka, Julia Sysmäläinen was moved to sketch pictograms in the same personal, hand penned style.
Her imagination (and digital ink) ran wild, resulting in nearly 600 images including animals, plants, stars, famous buildings, faces, food, flags, arrows, and various symbols for sports, hobbies, professions, traffic, and weather.
All the pictograms of FF Mister K Dingbats are available in a single font accessible via keycode or glyph palette. Feel free to download the nifty Manual.
Her imagination (and digital ink) ran wild, resulting in nearly 600 images including animals, plants, stars, famous buildings, faces, food, flags, arrows, and various symbols for sports, hobbies, professions, traffic, and weather.
All the pictograms of FF Mister K Dingbats are available in a single font accessible via keycode or glyph palette. Feel free to download the nifty Manual.
FF Prater by Henning Wagenbreth and Steffen Sauerteig is now available in OpenType as well as in the new Office format
FF Providence and FF Providence Sans by Guy Jeffrey Nelson is now available in OpenType Pro as well as in the new Office format.
In 1990, FontFont followed its launch with FF Scala, a serif typeface which paid homage to traditional serifs, but offered something refreshingly new, a text face for a new era. Twenty years later, FF Yoga takes the same big step for this generation, offering a soulful, contemporary alternative to the overused classics.
The family is a type system by Xavier Dupré conceived for newspapers and magazines thanks to its strong personality and good legibility. FF Yoga, with its sturdy serifs is a good choice for body text, but it also serves as an original headline face with its subtly chiseled counters. The face mixes the dynamic tension of angular cuts with the balanced rhythm and elegant curves of Garalde typefaces. FF Yoga Sans is a contemporary alternative to Gill Sans and a sober companion to the serif FF Yoga.
The family was made to work together, sharing the same proportions, x-height, and relative weight. The design also has much in common with Dupré’s other recent typeface, FF Masala, which could be used to deliver more informal content alongside FF Yoga.
FF Yoga OT and Pro fonts come with standard ligatures, small caps, case-sensitive forms, lining and oldstyle figures in tabular and proportional widths, and arbitrary fractions. FF Yoga Pro fonts add support for Central/Eastern European languages like Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and Turkish. The fonts are also available in Offc format for Office® users:
The family is a type system by Xavier Dupré conceived for newspapers and magazines thanks to its strong personality and good legibility. FF Yoga, with its sturdy serifs is a good choice for body text, but it also serves as an original headline face with its subtly chiseled counters. The face mixes the dynamic tension of angular cuts with the balanced rhythm and elegant curves of Garalde typefaces. FF Yoga Sans is a contemporary alternative to Gill Sans and a sober companion to the serif FF Yoga.
The family was made to work together, sharing the same proportions, x-height, and relative weight. The design also has much in common with Dupré’s other recent typeface, FF Masala, which could be used to deliver more informal content alongside FF Yoga.
FF Yoga OT and Pro fonts come with standard ligatures, small caps, case-sensitive forms, lining and oldstyle figures in tabular and proportional widths, and arbitrary fractions. FF Yoga Pro fonts add support for Central/Eastern European languages like Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and Turkish. The fonts are also available in Offc format for Office® users:
Introducing Office FontFonts
TTF vs. CFF * Everything is OpenType
Graphic designers rely on OpenType FontFonts for their typographic features and operability with professional apps like Adobe CS® and QuarkXPress®. But software like Microsoft® Office isn’t capable of accessing all the features and glyphs of these PostScript-flavoured (CFF) OpenType fonts. We are answering the call with a special kind of OpenType fonts: Office FontFonts. One of their most significant difference is their outline format - instead of PostScript they have TTF outlines, so we just call them TrueType-flavoured (TTF) OpenTypes.
Since screen-optimization is an important issue in this environment we improved the hinting of our fonts once again, following the most current standards. Office FontFonts are optimized for the use with ClearType that is available from Microsoft Windows XP and the standard way of type smoothing since Windows Vista.
Both OpenType formats are based on Unicode and contain each glyph within a single font file. The difference: Office FontFonts are style-linked, grouped together under a single item in the font menu. Working with Office apps you can access the easy-to-use key commands and toolbars you are familiar with to switch to bold, italic or bold italic. Tabular lining figures, which are more common for Office users, are the default figure set. Small caps with proportional oldstyle figures are also available, but as separate fonts.
Just as their ‘OT’ companions ‘Offc’ fonts cover 50 Western languages such as English, French, Spanish and German. ‘Offc Pro’ fonts offer support of many more Latin-based languages (e.g. Czech, Turkish, Hungarian, Latvian). Many Office Pro fonts also speak Cyrillic and/or Greek. Because of the style-linking you can get them in a Basic Set (Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic) or as pairs of upright fonts with their italic companion when available.
Although Office FontFonts are the best choice for all who work with the widely-used Office apps like Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint®, they are compatible with nearly every kind of software. If the software can handle a .ttf, it can handle an Office FontFont. Finally, everyone can benefit from the cross-platform compatibility and ease of use the OpenType format provides.
You can find all of the Offc FontFonts here. Get them in a Basic Set (Regular, Regular Italic, Bold and Bold Italic) or as single fonts with their italic companion when available. Just as their CFF-OpenType companions Offc fonts cover 40 Western languages such as English, French, and Spanish. Offc Pro fonts also extend support to many other Latin-based languages (Czech, Turkish, Latvian). And many Offc Pro fonts also contain Greek and/or Cyrillic.
Graphic designers rely on OpenType FontFonts for their typographic features and operability with professional apps like Adobe CS® and QuarkXPress®. But software like Microsoft® Office isn’t capable of accessing all the features and glyphs of these PostScript-flavoured (CFF) OpenType fonts. We are answering the call with a special kind of OpenType fonts: Office FontFonts. One of their most significant difference is their outline format - instead of PostScript they have TTF outlines, so we just call them TrueType-flavoured (TTF) OpenTypes.
Since screen-optimization is an important issue in this environment we improved the hinting of our fonts once again, following the most current standards. Office FontFonts are optimized for the use with ClearType that is available from Microsoft Windows XP and the standard way of type smoothing since Windows Vista.
Both OpenType formats are based on Unicode and contain each glyph within a single font file. The difference: Office FontFonts are style-linked, grouped together under a single item in the font menu. Working with Office apps you can access the easy-to-use key commands and toolbars you are familiar with to switch to bold, italic or bold italic. Tabular lining figures, which are more common for Office users, are the default figure set. Small caps with proportional oldstyle figures are also available, but as separate fonts.
Just as their ‘OT’ companions ‘Offc’ fonts cover 50 Western languages such as English, French, Spanish and German. ‘Offc Pro’ fonts offer support of many more Latin-based languages (e.g. Czech, Turkish, Hungarian, Latvian). Many Office Pro fonts also speak Cyrillic and/or Greek. Because of the style-linking you can get them in a Basic Set (Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic) or as pairs of upright fonts with their italic companion when available.
Although Office FontFonts are the best choice for all who work with the widely-used Office apps like Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint®, they are compatible with nearly every kind of software. If the software can handle a .ttf, it can handle an Office FontFont. Finally, everyone can benefit from the cross-platform compatibility and ease of use the OpenType format provides.
You can find all of the Offc FontFonts here. Get them in a Basic Set (Regular, Regular Italic, Bold and Bold Italic) or as single fonts with their italic companion when available. Just as their CFF-OpenType companions Offc fonts cover 40 Western languages such as English, French, and Spanish. Offc Pro fonts also extend support to many other Latin-based languages (Czech, Turkish, Latvian). And many Offc Pro fonts also contain Greek and/or Cyrillic.
Office FontFonts are fully compatible with apps like Excel®, Word® and PowerPoint®.
So, enjoy the free PDF showing all new FontFonts with even more information and specimens, read more about it in the FontFeed, or see the images in their full glory on the FontFont Flickr page.
