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NEW FONTS

Keep Calm

Keep Calm is a family of fonts developed from the now famous World War 2 poster that was designed in 1939 but never issued, then rediscovered in 2000. As well as the original Keep Calm font, the medium weight of the poster, new weights are now available – Keep Calm Book (regular weight), Heavy and Light – and each weight now comes with a free italic. The family contains Central European and Western European accented characters.

Savor

Savor is a script-ish typeface family that oozes exotic; it’s lively and luscious, flamboyant yet dignified. Like other recent K-Types, the fonts include the new Indian Rupee sign. Savor is designed to look just as good all in capitals as it does in title or lower case, and it’s currently available in four weights – Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic . The Regular is free to download for personal use.

Flip

Flip is a bold outline shadow sans with a counterchange; an eye-catching display font for contemporary usage. Flip is a Rosewood for generations raised on grotesques; a simple modern zigzag replaces fancy Victorian leafiness. Flip is flash but not flashy. It’s decorative rather than pretty. It’s a celebration without pomp, festive but not flowery. Like Rosewood, Flip is a bicolor typeface that is provided as two complementary fonts – Flip Fill has matching spacing and kerning so can be used as a color underlay to Flip Regular.

Zabars

Zabars is a full font developed from the six characters in the spectacular logo of the Zabar’s speciality foodstore in New York City. The Zabar’s lettering is a jewel, possessing greater sophistication and subtlety (and a more contemporary flavour) than the usual bifurcated (split serif) font which might simply suggest ‘Circus’ or ‘Old West’. And it’s been given an even fresher twist through the addition of a new lowercase which helps add to the 1960s countercultural aspect of the font’s personality.

Sardonyx

Sardonyx is a soft version of Onyx which takes the best features of the many incarnations of Gerry Powell’s 1937 masterpiece, adds new details (like the more elegant a and Q), numerous subtleties and refinements, and includes rounded corners throughout the font for a refreshingly contemporary twist.

Ticketing

Ticketing is a monospaced font loosely based on the pixel style lettering of electronic ticketing, designed for clarity when cheaply printed at small sizes. Ticketing, however, has a larger x-height than is often found on ticket type.

Modulario

Modulario is a geometric sans with some disturbingly individual features. A few capitals owe a bit too much to Roman proportions. The circular O serves to distinguish it from the zero, and the luxuriously wide W and M are both pointed in the middle, although alternatives to the more contentious letters are available within the font. The lowercase shows a little more handwriting influence than is customary – we are used to seeing a writing-style curve at the base of the l, Modulario extends the influence to the i and a, and also sports a uniquely scripty s.

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