Another great newspaper typeface, and an extension to the Noa family, too
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 | Last month, we introduced you to Neue Swift®, a reboot of the famous Swift typeface, one of the 20th century’s most popular newspaper typefaces. This month, we are pleased to continue the newspaper typeface trend by presenting Ysobel™, a new workhorse family from Monotype. Inspired by the Century® and Century Schoolbook® typefaces of the early 20th century, Ysobel picks up on some of their soft, rounded letter shapes but contrasts these with more incised serifs and terminals. Consisting of text and display versions, Ysobel was designed by Robin Nicholas, head of typography at Monotype UK. Robin is no stranger to the newspaper genre, having developed the Nimrod® family almost 30 years ago. For the text weights, Robin was assisted by Delve Withrington. Alice Savoie assisted in the design of the display cuts. |
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 | What started as a design project at Denmark’s Designschool Kolding eventually developed into the corporate typeface of KLM airlines. How’s that for a typographic success story? Danish designer Nina Lee Storm created the basic Noa™ typeface family during the late 1990s, while she was still a student. After releasing the fonts through Linotype, her creation became quite a success. This style of sans serif went on to win many clients. In light of this, Nina just expanded the basic six-member family, bring the new number of Noa fonts to 12. The new additions are all condensed versions, making the family even more versatile in corporate identity projects. |
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 | The new Nice Price Font Collection is a great little collection of fonts at great prices. Whether you are a scrapbooker, an educator, or a home or small business user, these distinctive designs combine perfectly with your operating system’s bundled fonts to help you tackle a wide variety of projects. |
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 | Every month, new type foundries and their fonts join our online shops. |
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 | We’ve received a series of lettering experiments created with Jovica Veljovic’s English Copperplate Script face Libelle™. These designs are so spectacularly cool that we just had to share them with all of our customers. |
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 | Did you know about the Lou Dorfsman CBS Wall? Some designers call it the “Gastrotypographicalassemblage,” since it was located in the CBS New York City building’s cafeteria, and it listed the names of many foodstuffs in various lettering styles. The Center for Design Study has inherited the pieces of this iconic piece of American Graphic Design history, and it raising money to restore it to its original 1960s glory. |
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We hope you found this issue of the LinoLetter informative and useful. We highly appreciate your feedback at info@linotype.com
The next issue of this newsletter will be published and dropped in your mailbox in november.
Your Linotype Online Team
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