Christian did it.

http://typographica.org/001115.php

Where did you find the special discount for current owners of No. 1?

I got an email from House with a hyperlink to a special page. Contact them if you didn't get it.

David

Hopefully this one will spread quickly. I love Neutraface, but I’m getting sick of seeing it used by bad designers in places where the character of the font sticks out like a sore thumb. This version will be much more successful at becoming ubiquitous.

Christian Schwartz updated his orangeitalic site to reflect on the changes in Neutraface 2.0. I especially like the improved kerning in the text. The only beef one could have with the new design is that the lowercase alternates don't get the same attention as they did in the 1.0 version. Notice there are no two-story lower case g's with diacritics. Not that I care... I will only set in the english language probably for the rest of my life.

Mikey :-)

To correct a factual error here: Neutraface No.2 does indeed have full accents for all the alternate lowercase letters. Though an example is not up at either Christian's or House's site, they are in the fonts.

Hi Mikey,

Thanks for catching that mistake in the character set image. I have corrected it. This is what happens when I recycle an old InDesign file and don't proofread properly.

Hi Christian:

Thank you for the correction. I'm so glad that I'm not correct about the character set.

I see Neutraface as a well honed and stylish take on the geometric sans, a field occupied by Relay, Verlag, FB Nobel, DTL Nobel, Erbar, Drescher Grotesk, FF Super Grotesk, and Futura. These are either stylish or austere. But with Neutraface 2.0 I get the bauhaus geometry for serious text work and the those stylish details that make it work it for display applications. I get it all.

On Typographica there was a comparison to Gotham (which I personally don't get) but the closest sans would be the exclusive VF Sans from Terminal Design for Vanity Fair. All of the things that bugged me about Neutaface (and stopped me from buying it) are gone! Your "neutral" Neutraface has more versatility and I appreciate that :-)

Just as a side question: In House & Garden magazine they started using a slanted version of Neutraface Drafting- is that something they came up with or is there Drafting Oblique made special for them?

Best Wishes and keep cranking them out!

Mike Diaz :-)

PS... I love the lower case a and g.

Hi Mikey,

The designers at House & Garden appear to be slanting Neutraface Drafting in InDesign - we didn't make any additional styles for them. That magazines is the only place I've seen the Drafting used at all.

:-) Cool, thanks for the information.

BTW... House and Garden shut down... bummer :-( One of the most typographically appealing magazines in circulation died.

Mikey :-(