TypeTogether newsletter June 2016

NEW RELEASE
The town is finally big enough for LFT Etica Sheriff

It’s not too often that the public gets to reap the rewards of a commissioned work, so the release of Leftloft’s LFT Etica Sheriff, in collaboration with and Octavio Pardo, is cause for rejoicing. For everyone who wanted the perfect slab serif to match the charming and sober sans, LFT Etica Sheriff equally attracts the reader with its headline swagger and retains its plainspokenness in conversational paragraphs. The way it gets from one to the other is with multiple widths and weights, each primed for their time in the sun.

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custom font
Learning and branding with Twinkl

One of TypeTogether’s specialties is tackling the difficult problems in type design. The latest type family tailor made for the educational company Twinkl solves the dual problems of establishing strong corporate branding across digital and printed media, while having the ability to typeset text for children and educators. The Twinkl type family appears lively, friendly, and approachable to young children, while enabling a smooth transition to longer texts and independent reading in a child’s formative years. At the same time, it has a distinctive personality that carries the Twinkl brand across all document and platform kinds with confidence and clarity.

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sneak peek
Ermin Međedović’s Fino

Ermin Međedović, designer of Lipa Agate, is polishing up a huge new family — Fino, Fino Sans, and Fino Stencil — and it’s a beauty! Dramatic curves, high-contrast, and filled with great ligatures and alternate characters, Fino presents a sense of luxury that is truly capital. Its six styles per subfamily, matching italics, and titling weights means Fino will work in all kinds of situations, which you will be able to try for yourself soon.

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NEWS
Roxane Gataud receives 2016 SOTA Catalyst Award

Each year the SOTA Catalyst Award is given to someone demonstrating significant achievement and future promise in the field of typography. Roxane Gataud received the award this year, with the judges offering high praise for her seamless and impressive integration of type into a wide range of projects. Roxane’s typeface, Bely, was released earlier this year as part of being awarded TypeTogether’s Typeface Publishing Incentive scholarship. Roxane will present her work and receive the award at TypeCon2016, taking place this summer in Seattle, Washington. Congratulations, Roxane!

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EDUCATION
Irene Vlachou and Dr Gerard Unger at ICTVC

Two of TypeTogether’s type designers will speak at next month’s ICTVC conference. As a Greek type design expert, Irene Vlachou will discuss the skeleton of Greek fonts for the UI, what changes have occurred since the 1990s, and what it means for Greek in our digital world. Dr Gerard Unger will present on uncials in Romanesque Europe as well as his award-winning type family Alverata. As mentioned in our prior newsletter, TypeTogether will be hosting the evening party on Saturday, July 9, so join us there to celebrate our tenth anniversary!

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