FSI FontShop International announced the latest additions to its award-winning FontFont® typeface library. The independent foundry released five new type families and added language extensions and OpenType® upgrades to a selection of popular FontFonts.
The New FontFonts
FF Absara™ Headline adds power to French designer Xavier Dupré’s popular FontFont family. The new additions, available in both sans and serif versions, feature larger x-heights for enhanced readability, narrower characters for better fit, and black weights designed for maximum impact. FF Absara Headline features four weights in the serif family and six weights in the sans. The addition of these headline styles makes the FF Absara superfamily a versatile tool for publication design and other projects calling for multiple text and display types.
FF Atomium™ is the latest FontFont by Dutch designer and musician Donald Beekman. The rounded display typeface was part of a proposal for an underground electronic music festival in Amsterdam. Inspired by the Atomium building in Brussels, Beekman echoed its futuristic spherical architecture in his letterforms. FF Atomium features thin, regular, heavy, and outline fonts that can be stacked to create layered effects. A quirky set of dingbats rounds out the family.
FF Good™ is the second FontFont family by Warsaw’s Lukasz Dziedzic. Originally intended as the new text type for the redesign of a newsweekly, FF Good is a readable sans with an informal personality. FF Good is seen in the pages of Polish-language tech magazine Komputer Swiat, while the Cyrillic is used in the Russian edition of British celebrity tabloid OK! FF Good features three weights and complementary small caps in regular, condensed, and wide widths.
FF Holmen™ is a book text family by Danish designer Per Baasch Jørgensen. Commissioned by a publishing house for a Hans Christian Andersen novel, the brief called for a “neoclassicist” typeface. Although inspired by the classical elegance of Bodoni and Didot, Jørgensen incorporated modern features for a contemporary appearance and improved readability. FF Holmen includes regular and bold weights with italics, small caps, and a titling version.
FF Speak™ is a humanist sans serif from a new FontFont designer, Denmark’s Jan Maack. With FF Speak, Maack wanted to capture the tone of voice of youthful conversation. He created smooth but lively letterforms that would evoke different intonations depending on the weights and ligatures used. FF Speak features light, regular, bold, and heavy weights with companion italics.
FontFont Language Extensions and OpenType Versions
In keeping with its mission to offer enhanced options to type users, FSI has announced language extensions to important FontFont families. FF Good™ includes Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, and Turkish character sets, while FF QType™ and FF Seria® Sans have been upgraded to support Baltic, Central European, and Turkish languages.
Type designers and type users worldwide have embraced the cross-platform OpenType format, which offers a wealth of advanced typographic features and extended language support. This release includes OpenType Standard (Western language) and Pro (multilingual) versions of FF Good™, OpenType Pro upgrades for FF QType™ and FF Seria® Sans, and OT Standard versions of FF Absara™ Headline, FF Atomium™, FF Disturbance®, FF Dot Matrix™, FF Eboy™, FF Holmen™, FF Letter Gothic™ Mono, FF Letter Gothic Text®, FF Market®, and FF Speak™.
New FontFont designs and additional upgrades are currently in production. For more information about the FontFont collection, its designers, and other news, please visit www.fontfont.com.
About FontFonts
Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody launched the FontFont brand in 1990 with the goal of producing innovative digital typefaces by designers for designers. FontFonts represent the work of 130 designers worldwide, with over 3,900 contemporary fonts in the collection. The FontFont library features some of the most popular typefaces in use today, including FF Meta®, FF DIN®, FF Scala®, FF Eureka® Sans, FF Kievit™, and FF Fago™.
This article was last modified on December 17, 2022
This article was first published on June 12, 2007
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