Font Bureau is excited to announce the release of two major new
typefaces from our drawing studio - Scout and FB Moderno.
SCOUT
A fresh new sans serif, something always useful, Scout (and a
related logotype) was drawn by Cyrus Highsmith, a senior type
designer at Font Bureau, for Geraldine Hessler’s 2006 redesign
of Entertainment Weekly. The 24 style family marks the magazine’s
first significant typographic update in a decade. Scout created
a new typographic identity for the magazine with a design that
derives structural elements from both new and old: DIN, Venus,
and Cairoli (a quirky and forgotten Aldo Novarese typeface).
24 Styles: thin, extra light, light, regular, bold, and black
with italics in normal and condensed widths.
Explore Scout on our website at:
http://www.fontbureau.com/Scout
Available from Font Bureau and its distributors.
To find out more about the type designer, Cyrus Highsmith, go to:
http://www.fontbureau.com/people/CyrusHighsmith
FB MODERNO
Intended for display use in print publications, David Berlow
conceived FB Moderno as a relative of Giza, our famous slab serif.
He used Apple’s (later abandoned) GX technology to interpolate
between two 19th century serif styles, a “slab” and a “modern” -
a type design first!
After being adopted by Eduardo Danilo for the design of Reforma
in Mexico City (1993), and then Roger Black’s redesign of the
Baltimore Sun (1994-95), and by Esquire magazine, the Montreal
Gazette expanded the family under Louise Vincent. Cases i Associats
added even more weights for La Stampa in Turin.
David has now aligned the weights and widths to make a super 32
style family, in much the same manner he tamed Bureau Grot to
make a wide mix of styles. This is a classic (actually neo-classical)
Font Bureau tale of custom font development. The result, we offer
a complete 21st Century Modern Family to you: FB Moderno (Modern is
the traditional name for Bodoni-like typefaces that have a lot of
contrast between thicks and thins).
32 Styles: light, regular, semibold, and bold in normal, condensed,
extra condensed, and compressed widths. All with italics.
Come see FB Moderno on our website at:
http://www.fontbureau.com/ModernoFB
Available from Font Bureau and its distributors.
To find out more about the type designer, David Berlow, go to:
http://www.fontbureau.com/people/DavidBerlow
NEWS
Benton Modern Expansion
New styles have been added to this great news text type from our
Readability Series, including Bold, Italic, and Small Caps for Roman,
Italic and Bold, all in four grades.
http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/BentonModern
Type 101
Check out Font Bureau’s blog, where we share occasional notes
about type and typography. Our recent posts include “Sam Berlow
interviewed on NPR’s On The Media”, “Campaign Typography” and
“The Em”.
http://type101.fontbureau.com/
SND Boston
The 29th annual workshop and exhibition of Society for News Design
was held this past October in Boston. Font Bureau was a proud
sponsor of the event. David Berlow gave a talk on “Screen Fonts:
An Abbr. Hist.” and Matthew Carter’s “It’s The Little Things”
discussed recent innovations in presenting stock tables, sports
agate, and other small information. Both were invited to lead the
Typography Roundtable, a discussion on trends from readability
to revivals.
TYPO Berlin
David Berlow has been invited to speak at the 13th international
design conference of TYPO Berlin, to be held this May. It has
established itself as the premier European event for typographers,
graphic designers and other design professionals from all over
the world.
Cyrus Highsmith featured in Cap&Design
The Swedish design publication Cap&Design interviewed Font Bureau’s
senior type designer Cyrus Highsmith, featuring him on the cover
and inside spread of its October issue. Boomer, Highsmith’s
original typeface drawn for AARP The Magazine in 2006, was also
used for that issue.
Helvetica: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
Released in 2007 Helvetica is an independent film “about typography,
graphic design and global visual culture…the proliferation of
one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type
affects of lives.” Matthew Carter and Mike Parker, distinguished
members of Font Bureau’s type board, were interviewed for the film,
as well as a Font Bureau contributing type designer, Tobias
Frere-Jones. After showing in over 150 film festivals worldwide,
its global screening tour continues and is now available on DVD.
It was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award and recognized
by the Design Museum in London.
http://www.helveticafilm.com/
NOTEWORTHY
Font Bureau contributing type designer Christian Schwartz was
awarded the eighth Prix Charles Peignot by Association Typographique
Internationale (AtypI) this past September.
http://www.atypi.org/
Matthew Carter acted as Jury Chair of TDC2 2008, the Type Director’s
Club annual international competition of new typeface designs.
http://www.tdc.org/
STAY TUNED
Our next upcoming releases will include two new serif displays,
Benton Modern Display, prepared by Dyana Weissman and Richard Lipton,
and Rocky, crafted by Matthew Carter.