Saturday, March 28, 2009

A new font family for book design: Artimas


This is the new font family developed out of Aramus.
Only available on the Bergsland Typography site for now (Myfonts, Monotype, and Linotype shortly).
These new serif typefaces are readable & graceful — part of my development of a series of book families. Aramus was very popular for a single font release of a text font. As I recall, it made it nearly to top ten in new releases on Myfonts (or maybe it made it, I can't recall). 


This new book font family retains the looseness of the original with radically different font metrics and many shape “corrections”.


In fact, Artimas continues a genuine new path for the foundry


This new font family for book design continues a turn toward more “traditional” x-heights 

of around a third of the point size. The Artimas print production font family is 

six new OpenType Pro fonts with Caps, lowercase, small caps, & 

figures to go with each of those character sets. 

There are many ligatures, a few swashes, fractions, numerators, denominators, and ordinals to infinity. This family of fonts is a joy to read and easy to use for text or display.


Artimas Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic

Only available on the website: $9 each or $49 for the entire family.


Here's the link to the family page: http://bergsland.org/font.artimas.html

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