Gerald Giampa R.I.P.

Master printer Gerald Giampa (b.1950) died of a stroke on Saturday June 20, 2009. Gerald was the owner of Lanston Type Co. from 1988 to 2004. We offer our deepest sympathies to his family and friends. His personal website has been kept intact since the acquisition of Lanston by P22 and will be kept as a memorial to one of the more colorful characters in the world of typography.

Caffe

Caffe by Gabor Kothay was originally designed for the Artz Gallery Cafe in Budapest Hungary. The design is a contemporary handwriting style adapted from examples in lettering exercise books. It has been redrawn and expanded into six styles. The four weights were created by drawing the style using different mediums: Cappuccino in pen, Pastry in felt-tip, Lemonade in brush and Tobacco, the original, in pencil. Poster and Poster Inline are well suited for display purposes and round out the family. This font family is perfect for bistro menus or other European-flavored poster & print design. Special Introductory Sale price.

Festiva and Fleurons!

IHOF Festiva by Terry Wudenbachs

Festiva is a new font by Terry Wudenbachs. It is based on lettering found on a 1960s kitchen appliance catalog. It evokes 1960s TV and pop culture while still having a contemporary feel. The fun exuberant flavor of this face is perfect for parties and celebrations. The letters dance across the baseline and the lower case wants to be an upper case but just can't quite make it. P22 Festiva Regular includes a full unicode European Character set (Western, CE, Turkish, Romanian etc).



It is specially priced at only $19.95. Extra special introductory price: 50% off - only $9.98 More Info

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Lanston Fleuron Special

To commemorate the birth of Lanston type designer Bruce Rogers, we are offering a special on our Lanston fleuron font titles. Fleurons are designed as flowered printing ornaments and have been traditionally used to embellish pages in handset type. For the month of May the following fonts are 50% off or $9.98 each- LTC Fleurons Rogers, LTC Fleurons Granjon, LTC Fleurons Garamont, LTC Goudy Extras. To round out the special, LTC Goudy Initials, a set of highly decorative capitals, is also on sale. If all 5 fonts seem to hard to resist, and you can't pick just one, we are offering them all as one set for $39.95!



Also in the month of May, you can purchase the full arrangement of Lanston Ornaments for $149.95 (regular price $199.95). The Lanston Ornament collection includes the 4 fleuron fonts listed above, plus 16 others. Order the collection and well also include Goudy Initials. That's over $400 worth of single fonts for just $149.95. More Info

London for Tea?

Tt Tea Mug

Mind The Gap! We have just received shipment of the longtime out of stock
and very popular London Tea mugs. The mug is officially licensed through the London Transport Museum and features the P22 London Underground font, also licensed through the museum. The mug contains a sample of the famous Johnston Underground type design, an alphanumeric showing and a quote by the original designer, Edward Johnston: "... The essential virtues of good lettering are readableness, beauty, and character."

The retail price for the mug is $6.95 plus shipping. Or, you can order a set of 4 mugs for $22.00 plus shipping. While supplies last! More Info

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April Special: London Underground Special

For the month of April, we are discounting many of the London Underground related styles. You can save 25% or more when you purchase the original P22 London Underground Set, or any Underground Pro font or Set (discounts do not apply to Underground Full Set). Order the Underground Full Set and receive a set of 4 London Tea Mugs for free (shipping not included). More Info

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P22 Type Foundry now on Twitter

You can now follow P22 on Twitter.com: http://www.twitter.com/P22TypeFoundry

Kelly Pro

Our Blogging duties have been somehow neglected. P22 Kelly Pro was introduced for St Patrick's day as you might have guessed. Another fine font from Ted Staunton.

Musical March Madness!

P22 Music Pro is a unique font system that allows the user to compose music with text editing and page layout programs capable of OpenType features and contextual substitutions. The OpenType features speed up the composing process by adding chords, contextual accidentals (sharps and flats), contextual key signatures and time signatures. P22 Music Pro covers a wide range of symbols and notation used in traditional western music composition.

The font also expands on the concept used in the Music Text Composition Generator, an online application that imposes a series of substitutions on the user's text to yield an unexpected composition. The Music Pro font is able to perform these same substitutes within your OpenType layout program, as well as adding word-to-chord substitutions.

P22 Music Pro requires an application that uses OpenType features and is capable of contextual substitutions, such as Adobe InDesign or Illustrator.

P22 Music is the companion, non-pro font included with P22 Music Pro and also sold separately. P22 Music also contains music symbols and notation and is suited for layout and text edit applications such as Microsoft Word that do not support Pro OpenType features. Unlike the P22 Music Pro font, the music symbols in the non-pro font are not tied to the staff lines, making them more useful for general design purposes. Staff lines are included as a separate character.

P22 Music Pro font (also includes P22 Music) $39.95 (introductory price $29.95)
P22 Music basic font $19.95 (introductory price $15.96)
Introductory offers valid through March 31st.
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P22 welcomes TypeSETit

TypeSETit is a type foundry featuring the collected designs of calligrapher Rob Leuschke. Rob got his start in the 1980s working as a lettering artist at Hallmark Cards. Eventually Rob decided to pursue a freelance career and posted samples of his work online, which led to many requests to purchase his lettering designs. In 2000, Rob and P22's International House of Fonts came to an agreement giving IHOF the right to distribute five of his designs, Corinthia, Imperial Script, Ohley, Petemoss and Ruthie. Now P22 is very pleased to announce that it is distributing all 75 Rob Leuschke designs. You'll find a script font for every occasion in the TypeSETit Collection, whether you need an expressive brush script or elegant formal calligraphy.

For the month of February, all TypeSETit fonts are 10% off, with a special
price of only $899.95 for the entire collection.

February Special

In commemoration of Groundhog Day - P22 type foundry is offering its shadow-styled fonts for 50% off or $9.95 each for the month of February. The selection includes Bayer Shadow, Glamour Shadow, Salon Shadow and Bagaglio3D. Order any of the complete sets for these titles at 50% off of as well.