Late November comes Early

LATE NOVEMBER (THE FONT)

P22 Late November is a new font family from Norwegian type
designer Torliev Sverdrup. The font is a transitional
Antiqua-inspired type design great for text and display
uses. The name is derived from the dark, November night in
which the design of the font began.

The Pro version features fractions, ligatures and full
Central European support.

As an introductory special, get 20% off the regular price
of either the full regular set or the full Pro set.
Introductory offer valid until late November (November
30th to be precise).

P22 Acquires Canada Type

P22 type foundry and International House of Fonts announce its acquisition* of Toronto-based type foundry Canada Type's newest font design: Counter.

Designed by Canada Type principal Patrick Griffin, P22 Counter is a very geometric font based on parallel strokes. The Cursive and SwashAlts styles were based on the idea for an uncredited film face called Whitley, published by a little known English typesetting house in the early 1970s. Line & Hack are extrapolations of the above.

Each face is offered in basic OpenType (which has Central European language support) for only $19.95, or as a set of 4 for $49.95. A Counter Cursive Pro font that combines Cursive & SwashAlts is also included in the set or is available separately for $29.95. As an introductory special, you can get the full Counter font set for only $39.95.


*P22 has not actually acquired Canada Type or the font itself, we are simply the exclusive source for this new font from Patrick Griffin. If we didn’t confuse things too much, at least you read our email!

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Halloween Themed (monthly) Special: Five Frightening Fonts From Five Foundries ($50)!

(P22) Posada Extras
(IHOF) Aglio
(Lanston) Halloween Ornaments
(Rimmer) Zigarre
(Sherwood) Phantasmagoria Regular


Only for the month of October, Only $50!

September Newness

New Platten Neu Family
Michael Clark Script font sale
New TypeCaster!

Introducing -- Platten Neu


The P22 Platten font family has been revisited and expanded by designer Colin Kahn. Platten is based on lettering found in German fountain pen practice books from the 1920s (you may have seen the similar Speedball books in the US). This round tip pen lettering is comparable to the basic forms used in grammar school teaching alphabets, but with a few original characteristics. The Italic version has even more of these unusual features. Geometric & simple yet casual & timeless. Perfect for many uses.

P22 Platten Neu includes 6 Pro fonts (Light, Regular & Demibold) with many alternates and ligatures (over 500 glyphs in each font) in Roman & Italic with expanded Central European language coverage and Smallcaps (Roman only).

Special Introduction price for the month of September

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A new, monthly feature on p22.com will be a revisiting of P22 fonts you may have missed.

Sweepy, Sneaky & Pooper Black
No, not 3 of Snow White's sidekicks, but rather 3 related script fonts from Calligrapher Michael Clark.

Pooper Black is based on a brush ethic and has an extreme axis that lends a certain amount of speed to the font while the lack of connectors "slows" it down. A wonderful face for packaging, titling, and short burst of text. Pooper Black has been seen takin’ care of business on shop ads and food packaging.

Sneaky is a connecting-script and sibling of Pooper Black that shares a similar flow and casual elegance. It features shared details and relative size so that with careful design, the two can be mixed and matched.

Sweepy (winner of a Type Director Club 2006 award) is a lighter, and connecting version of Sneaky. Sweepy is a brush script that is casual and fluid. In the expanded OpenType version Sweepy is loaded with alternate characters and ligatures that offer more flexible lettering options.

Get them for the month of September at a special price!

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The P22 type preview tool, the TypeCaster has been revamped for easier previewing and better resolution. Now you can zoom in as well as out to see any given font in any given size with any of your own text. Give it a try!

The Big Ol' Specimen book

For TypeCon2008, P22 completed its first major specimen book. It has taken 2 years to produce and includes all the fonts from each P22 division, up to and including the newly released Stern font by Jim Rimmer. The book is 258 pages divided into 5 sections (one for each division of P22: P22 type foundry, IHOF, Sherwood, Lanston & Rimmer type foundry). It is indexed and shows off the fonts in a variety of settings as they were intended to be seen- in print! Order one today!

P22 Backstory

We have been a bit lax in telling our own history. Occasionally people ask and we occasionally tell. Here is a recent article by Jessica Spring for Boxcar Presses new Flurry Journal and some coaxing from Jan Middendorp for Myfonts Creative Characters Newsletter reveals some little known facts about P22.

INTRODUCING RTF Stern

A New Font in TrueType, PostScript OpenType & Hot Metal!

Just announced at TypeCon in Buffalo, NY, Stern is a typographic first: it marks the first time a font is simultaneously released both digitally and in metal. Stern, named for the late printer Christopher Stern, is an upright Italic designed by Jim Rimmer intended for poetry settings and numerous other uses. The making of this typeface is also being made into a documentary shot in HD video.



DIGITAL
The digital version of RTF Stern includes the OpenType Pro version plus four non-pro versions included for applications that do not support OpenType. The set features Stern Aldine, Regular, Tall Caps & Small Caps.

METAL
The (16pt on 18pt body) metal version of Stern is shipped directly from Pie Tree foundry in Vancouver, BC. It is cast to order by Jim Rimmer using foundry metal.

SPECIMEN BOOKLET
A special limited edition specimen booklet was printed by Coach House Press in Toronto, ON. The duotone photos by Anna Prior are printed with silver highlights in the specimen portions that accent the feel of the type & tools used to make Stern. The booklet includes a bound-in letterpress specimen printed on Japanese rice paper and a single metal letter!

FLASH
In collaboration with Buffalo-based JRVisuals, who developed the "Type is Art" interactive web project, a special TypeIsArt Stern project allows you to create images with the component parts of the Stern font.

TypeCon in Buffalo

P22 is busy with preparations of Typecon2008 as site committee and local hosts. We hope you stop us and say hello during the conference. A special new release will be announced on July 18th during a talk by Richard Kegler at TypeCon. watch for it.