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Font News – Three new releases from Fontalicious
Natural blonde porn star Ben Balvanz of Fontalicious has relesed three new fonts, Hustle, Rustler and Magnum over the weekend. Source: Fontlover.com
Font News – Zeep prepares to open its doors
Sunday, 23 September 2001 will see the launch of the Zeep Type Foundry from Typographer.com’s very own David Earls. More information will be released as to its plans closer to the time.
Media Watch – Typophile publish two interviews
Jared Benson at Typophile dropped us a line to announce two new interviews at the site. Matthew Bardram, founder of Atomic Media, and Joe Gillespie (of MINI 7 fame) both come under the spotlight for their bitmap font work.
Call to Action – Font Aid II
The Society of Typographic Aficionados are requesting submissions for Font Aid II, a font to be created over the next week as a memorial piece to the events of Tuesday. The font will be available from the SOTA site in exchange for a minimum donation of $5, which will be distributed to the Red Cross and victim relief efforts. Type designers interested in contributing a glyph to the project, click here for further details. Sources: Microsoft Typography & SOTA
Commentary – Unbelievable Generosity
This is not typography related news, but those of you who use stock image libraries might like to know this snippet of information. Above and below this are articles detailing the efforts of the typography community to selflessly help others in light of the events of Tuesday. Others seem to be using the disaster to help themselves – Bill Gates will be profiting from it by licensing photos of the terrible attacks through his image library, Corbis. Nice. Please do remember this, next time you are doing the rounds looking for stock photography. Source: Textism
Font News – Four new fonts from Fontosaurus
Up until the end of this month, Dan Bailey is donating half of all proceeds from his foundry, Fontosaurus Text, to the Red Cross in support of the families touched by the events in the USA on Tuesday. He has also released four new fonts today, three freebies (Alien Artifact, Deadwrong, and Hoodoo Two) and one commercial (Noonan) under his Chank-inspired Font of the Month Club.
Software News – DTL FontMaster
Spreek je een beetje nederlands, niet waar? Jolly good, as Andy Crewdson has spotted an interesting set of four font creation tools called FontMaster, from the Dutch Type Library. The website has yet to be localised, so you need to be up to speed with your Dutch, however an English version of the software is apparently available. Source: Lines & Splines Updated on Monday, September 17, 2001
Industry Watch – Dalton Maag open online store
Brixton-based type consultancy and foundry Dalton Maag have released an online store, thus saving you from facing the perils of the Victoria Line and the dangers of going south of the river. Source: Microsoft Typography
Font News - Presence Typo release Classica Gallic
Thierry Puyfoulhoux dropped us a line to let us know that French foundry Presence Typo have added Classica Gallic to its Classica family of faces.
Industry Watch – More ATypI conference news
Along with the announcement of a remarkably cute conference t-shirt, the ATypI website today reports on their Font Technology Forum. Concentrating on international font development, the speakers include Eric Muller, David Lemon and Thomas Phinney of Adobe, Peter Lofting of Apple, Si Daniels of Microsoft and Yuri Yarmola of FontLab.
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