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We have been beta testers for OffBureau, “an online collaboration workspace for creative industries” for months now. We are glad that guys at Offbureau listened to some of our remarks and lately came up with a completely redesigned user interface. The main feature --two dimensional activity stream-- is still in the core of the app, but general application environment is now much easier to navigate. Good job. We are using Offbureau online workspace to work with remote team members and clients on our custom design projects. We managed to shorten a design and approval times significantly, lessen email clutter and include clients into a design workflow. We recommend it! |
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We are pleased to finally introduce Archive Garamond, a first complex Archive Type font family with an extensive character set and “Pro” OpenType features for advanced typography.
Archive Garamond is available on MyFonts at:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/archivetype/archive-garamond/
While the majority of contemporary digital interpretations of the “Garamond types” are cleaner and more polished versions of that genre, Archive Garamond tries to keep the rough nature which was typical in the early days of printing. Archive Garamond has a rather unique, distinctive temperament which is even more emphasised with the preserved non-uniformity, such as irregular glyph shapes or a variable baseline.
Although Archive Garamond was clearly made to be used for display sizes it works surprisingly well in text.
Archive Garamond is available in three versions, each containing approximately 600 glyphs (in Pro versions):
Archive Garamond Pro
A Professional version of the typeface contains all glyphs, including the advanced typographic forms, such as different sets of figures, small caps, swashes, historical forms, etc. The font also enables full use of the OpenType features. It fully supports the languages listed in the language list.
Archive Garamond Std
A Standard version of the typeface is meant to be used for the basic typographic work. It typically contains the most common glyphs. The standard figures are proportional lining. Besides kerning this version does not contain any advanced OpenType features. A Standard file type fully supports the languages listed in the Language list.
Archive Garamond Exp
An Expert version contains glyphs that are supposed to be used in advanced typographic works. This type of file contains uppercase and small cap glyphs with the proportional oldstyle figures as the default set. Besides kerning this version does not contain any advanced OpenType features (all OTF features have to be replaced manually). An Expert file type fully supports 39 languages.
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/archivetype/archive-garamond/ |
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Our recent on-line survey shows that 36% of designers would like to have more complex font families with full character sets and exactly the same number of designers (36%) are interested in different single display fonts with limited character sets. 21% would like to see more pictorial fonts (frames, ornaments, arrows...) and 7%could not care less. That's it. We'll keep adding single fonts and we will speed up the production of our first complex font family Archive Garamond. |
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