It was a busy year, but I spent all my time on three large families for book design. As most of you know, this is my passion. The first family out was a humanist sans family of eight called Amico, and the last was a calligraphic sans family called Arturo. It was a very good year.
This stylized sans font design has rapidly become the workhorse sans in most of my projects. The Open Features make it the sans of choice for complex sets of styles in InDesign. It was designed as the Sans headers and sidebars to go with the other major release for the year: Amitale Book.
This is my second major attempt to produce a family of font designs for use in books, newsletters, magazines, and newspapers. I have had many requests for such a font over the years.
The first attempt was Ardone, but there were too many conceptual problems with those glyphs to make that family work. Amitale has the same roots, Minister, Diaconia, & Bergsland Pro, but the new fonts are drawn much better.
I have been using these two fonts together a great deal and they work as well as I had hoped for the type of projects I do. Please let me know what your experience is, and I'll post it here.
Releasing on Labor Day, 2008

A script font with lofty goals designed for use in books, booklets, and general typography with a full complement of small caps, playful ligatures, lining/oldstyle/small cap figures, and good readability. This quiet unassuming font is designed for use by professional typographers looking for that excellence that only expresses itself in the fact that you do not notice it—all you notice is the purpose & content of the writing.
An elegant calligraphic sans serif family of eight
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