(This time: Scotland & England)

We love hot metal typesetting. It’s our passion.

So we once again were at our favorite place here in Darmstadt, Germany. The »Haus für Industriekultur«. Just around the corner from our rooms it is partly a museum and partly workplace of one of the last type founders still in business. If you are planning to go to or happen to be in Germany pay a visit to this awesome place.

website (german)
on Wikipedia (german)

One hardly can imagine the degree of engeneering perfection.

Just about every part of every machine is moving. A smell of molten lead is in the air. Some FontomTypers are used to working in a lead typesetting workshop but the »Haus für Industriekultur« is something else. Every visit sparks at least one idea for our undertaking with FontomType. Wonderful place this.

So here are some impressions just for your enjoyment.

We haven’t put a lot news out there recently, because we were busy working on fonts, traveling and looking for inspiration.

So to make up for this — receive some decent type and lettering, shot by the band, kissed by the band, filled with good thoughts and infused with gratitude and love. Thank you, fans!

(This time: Napels, Italy)

David Waschbüsch’s Skyhook Mono is quite possibly the most flexible monospaced font in years. It includes dozens of features you wouldn’t expect in a modern and ultra-simplified design: case-sensitive forms, true italics, both old style and lining numerals, fractions, titling forms, arrows, both decorative uppercase and lowercase ligatures, multiple weights (which maintain the same metrics), a full Greek alphabet, and an enormous range of accented characters. At over 600 glyphs per cut, it is perfectly suited for many of the tasks and involved projects that only the richest booktype families were capable of in the past.

Try it out for yourself — currently, a free sample weight is available

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for download.

This is the premiere release from Germany’s FontomType; if future releases are even half as original, interesting and well-executed as Skyhook, we will be very interested in following their progress.

 
We will try

Joshua. We will try. :)

Read this and lots of other great articles on the MyFonts Blog.

Since today FontomType deals with a box full of reality, ladies and gentlemen.

We finally won the flagship of the big font resellers as our distributor.

Behold the mighty MyFonts! Will it be exclusive? We don’t think so. Because on the long run we want to offer you an additionally and more direct service. Mailing you real letters with real paper and awesome fonts. Also we want to distribute via email service, saving money so we can offer you yet another discount. At the same time we really want to realize the rest of our beautiful but unfinished ideas.

But for today we are a little bit proud for pulling us out in the light, blinking against the bright sun.

Sunscreen anyone?

In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria dinanzi a la quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice: Incipit vita nova.

— Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova

In this Book — which is my memory — on the first site of the chapter in which is described the day when I met you the first time; one can read the words: »A new life starts here«.

 
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SkyhookMono is a carefully handcrafted monospaced typeface family. It is modern, sturdy and reduced to the max yet refined and classy. But we really love the fact that Skyhook Mono is very readable even in smaller sizes. It is designed and optimized to be printed so you shouldn’t be surprised when the results are even better than the screen appearance!

Skyhook Mono is available in 15 different cuts ensuring it can be set contrastingly. Each cut comes with more than 600 glyphs meaning you are covering an incredible amount of languages. We stopped counting at 150 languages and roughly one billion potential readers worldwide.

This includes small and exotic ones like Creole or Galician. SkyhookMono is even available in the Greek alphabet.

Also: No added sugar. No concentrates.

So now we’ re letting it shine out on its own.

 
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Kon­stata is really a niche font for spe­cial use. Cre­ated for stencil use, Konstata fea­tures a set of only 10 dif­fer­ent ele­ments (aka your templates) out of which you can com­pose the com­plete typeface. There­fore it bor­ders between being some­what grungy, mod­u­lar and classic and greatly saves space in your backpack when stenciling.

Kon­stata is sup­posed to be stenciled with closed coun­ters — which is pos­sible due to the mod­u­lar stys­tem. In fact there are no bridges in it at all. It con­sists of a com­plete set of uni­case let­ters — numer­als are ment to be done als roman num­bers, ger­man umlaute are included as ue (ä), oe (ö), ae (ä) and ss (ß). Any medium will do the job but I sug­gest using fast dry­ing paint like Placka, Edding or Montana 94 spray-paint to speed up the pro­cess of com­pos­ing all elements.

On the key­board you will find all 10 ele­ments on the pos­i­tion of numer­als (0?9); a set of fully com­posed char­ac­ters on the pos­i­tion of lower­case let­ters ( a-z incl.

ü, ö, ä, ß); and every let­ter com­posed into the low­est pos­sible num­ber of parts (max­imal two, often only one) at the pos­i­tion of cap­ital letters.

Update! 04.09.2010 — tighter met­rics and improved kern­ing, also new char­ac­ters like exclam­a­tion and ques­tion mark.