Digested on April 30, 2003
Posted by David Earls

Kings of retro House Industries have acquired a large film-based display typography collection containing nearly all of the 6500 fonts from Photo-Lettering, Inc of New York, a foundry who has in its 55 year history worked with the likes of Ed Benguiat, Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. Quite a coup for the 9 year old House, and landing them with potentially decades of digitisation work, should they wish.

Fancy a job working for Microsoft? They currently have three positions open in their typography team for those of us more technically minded. They need an OpenType implementation program manager, a complex script fonts program manager and a software design engineer. Bit of a mouthful on your business card, huh? More details here, if it floats your boat.

How about taking a shot at typeface design instead. But can't afford to invest in FontLab and don't want to support the almost-dead FOG? FontLab's cut down font editor TypeTool has been upgraded to version 2, and jolly good it appears to be too. I used to run the earlier TypeTool 1.3 before upgrading to FontLab 4.5, a path I am sure will become increasingly popular, so it's good to see that FontLab have decided to introduce an upgrade path from one to the other.

MacOS X users now can add a visual font menu to any Cocoa application with Stone Design's FontSight software. I think it is a little steep at just under twenty dollars, but if you really must have your fonts listed visually, then why not.

Just a little post this week while I get back into the swing of things. Oh, and to those who sent me needlessly offensive emails about taking the site down as an anti-war protest, thank you for reinforcing countless damaging stereotypes. And to those who supported my small action, just plain thank you.

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