P22 News

Formal Copperplate Scripts
Paul Hunt has spent countless hours pouring over old lettering books and type specimen books to develop two outstanding classic script faces. P22 Allyson is based on an old Barnhart Brothers and Spinder design and P22 Zaner is based on a lettering manual with many various on each letter. Both styles are offered in several variations; from basic full character sets to expansive Opentype fonts culminating in the epic Zaner Super Pro with over 2000 characters.

Peanut Gallery
Noted calligrapher Michael Clark has taken one of his pen and ink lettering designs and made an impressive two font set. Peanut evokes child-like playfulness but has a solid grounding the the Roman miniscule form. Similar to the font Papyrus, but more flexible and a refershing alternative. Sure to be another Clark classic design.

Think Completely Different
For one day on the first of the month we gave up our font business to try something else.

Benjamin Franklin's Caslon
A special font set for the Philadelphia Museum of Art to coincide with the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary celebrations this year was developed by P22 and we are please to offer it to you. Franklin's Caslon font set is digitized from the actual printed pieces produced by Ben Franklin's Printing enterprises. Unlike the "Caslon Antique" font that has seen wide use over the last decade, this one really is a Caslon design and a perfect decorative companion to the Lanston Caslon font set.

Dada Opentype
Our newly expanded Dada Opentype package, made to coincide with the major Dada exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington DC, is an expanded version of the P22 Dada font. As an Opentype font, it has over 500 glyphs and special features create some unexpected design results.

Introducing - Rimmer Type Foundry!
P22 is pleased to announce the availability of the Jim Rimmer Collection. This digital type collection is the culmination of decades of typographic work at his Pie Tree press and type foundry. This is the first time these fonts are available to the public.

2006 Constructivist Mugs - Back in Black
Our ever-popular Constructivist "Better Coffee for Better Workers" Mug has just arrived in their latest incarnation. This time they are red and white on black with the year "2006".

P22 Club
The P22 Club is open for 2006 membership. The 4th year of incorporation, the club can only be joined from now until Jan. 31, 2006. For yourself or for a gift, a great deal.

New 2006 Catalog
Our new 24 booklet has samples of just about every font we offer in handy printed form. Free for the asking.

A Merry Script-mas!
December of 2005 brings several new fonts. They are just in time for last minute holiday cards (or any other year-round need for tasteful script fonts).

The Cruz Script Fonts- From veteran type designer Ray Cruz, three script fonts in three different styles (Ballpoint pen, Brush and Calligraphic pen) plus a font of companion ornaments in the same three styles. The three alphabet fonts are available in optional OpenType format for a more natural effect with automatic character substitution and ligatures.

Lettering artist Michael Clark brings us his newest design, Sweepy. It is based on his popular "Pooper Black" but it is lighter and has connecting letters. Sweepy also has an optional enhanced OpenType version available with over 50 alternates.

From James Grieshaber, who turned the venerable P22 Cezanne font into Cezanne Pro, comes Operina Pro. Another 1200+ character font based on Grieshaber's Operina features Small Caps, Old Style Figures, full European, Cyrillic and Greek character sets and a new OpenType first with automatic Roman Numerals. Just type any number and with the feature, it will convert to Roman Numerals!

For November 2005

Classic Christmas Ornaments
Just in time for holiday design projects, the Lanston Christmas Ornaments collection has a definite nostalgic and elegant feel for classic Christmas and Winter iconography. The set contains 5 fonts, including LTC Christmas Ornaments and LTC Holly Leaves. Both are designed to allow the user to create their own two-color design combinations. An indispensable set for the Christmas season, they are perfect for custom card creation or any other winter holiday graphics.

2 New IHOF Titles
P22 Yule by James Grieshaber is a display font set inspired by a mélange of ancient inscriptional writing, with visual references to Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, medieval and even a bit of ancient Greek and roman letterforms. Yule is exotic yet familiar and evocative of winter holidays.

P22 Curwen is a set of 2 fonts by Colin Kahn. P22 Curwen Poster is a digitized version of a rare wood type used by the Curwen Press in England in the early 20th Century for poster work. P22 Curwen Maxima is a new hyper-stylized re-interpretation of Curwen Poster.

P22 in Print
Print magazine has recently featured P22 in the Type section of their 25th anniversary (November/December 2005) issue. See other places P22 has been featured on our Press page.

Fonts in Use Contest
Have a look at October's winning entry in our ever-popular Fonts-in-Use Contest. You can enter too. Click here for details.

For October 2005

34 New Lanston fonts!
This month brings re-mastered versions of the venerable Kennerley font family by Frederic Goudy and the classic Cloister family by Morris Fuller Benton. Revised Twentieth Century Medium features alternates based on the original experimental Futura by Paul Renner.

Brand new digitizations of classic Lanston metal faces include Artscript, Nicolas Cochin, Remington Typewriter and Goudy Text...all with alternates and all optionally in expanded OpenType format. Additionally we have an exclusive digitization of the very rare Hess Monoblack plus new Ornaments 2 and remastered Ornaments 3.

The full Lanston collection is currently over 135 fonts PLUS over 40 Opentype fonts. Purchased individually, the fonts would cost over $2500. Buy them all now for only $999.95 (current owners of previous Lanston collections may upgrade at a very reasonable price. Please inquire for details). BUT WAIT there’s more! If you license the full Lanston Collection this month, you will get the next installment at no additional charge (plus the William Caslon Experience CD). Planned for early 2006, the next installment will include most of the remaining digital fonts from the Giampa era Lanston Type Co. including: Record Title, Kaatskill, and Jenson Oldstyle. In all, over 30 fonts will be included in the next installment. Final selection is still under consideration.

A New Foundry!?
Many Lanston fonts were originally digitized by the multi-talented Jim Rimmer. Other titles offered by Lanston over the last two decades included the original Jim Rimmer designs: Albertan, Alexander Quill and Posh Initials. These design plus many more Jim Rimmer fonts, will be offered exclusively through P22 in January 2006. The Rimmer Type Foundry at P22 will feature all of Mr. Rimmer's digital type designs while he spends his time working on making metal type and fine press books.

Roycroft Book Arts
So what is the allure of metal type and fine press books in the digital age? We ask that question ourselves all the time. P22 makes digital fonts, but the source for so many P22 fonts goes back to the days of hand crafted printing. As part of the continuing tradition of connecting the old and the new, P22 is proud to be the co-organizer of the “Roycroft Book-Arts Weekend” in East Aurora New York. October 14-16. Spots are still open for this historic Arts and Crafts renaissance workshop series on the very campus that helped launch the American Arts and Crafts movement in the late 19th century. But Hurry!

LTC Halloween Ornaments
Halloween is a time when perfectly reasonable people choose to reenact some lost pagan rituals. No one seems to know why exactly, but Halloween has been celebrated in its present form for a little over one hundred years. This newset of ornaments dates back to the early 20th century and depicts a"classic" Halloween collection of black cats, pumpkins, witches and other indispensable Halloween ornaments.

For September 2005

Four new designs from four IHOF designers
P22 Monumental Titling from Michael Clark (USA) is based on classic Roman proportions and drawn from a calligraphic hand.
P22 Komusubi from Hajime Kawakame (JAPAN). This lively display font features Latin as well as Katakana and Hiragana.
Driade from Gabor Kothay (HUNGARY) is a group of fonts based on a personal calligraphic expression. It is exotic but still familiar.
The P22 Mystic Font from Terry Wudenbachs (LIECHTENSTIEN) knows all. The OpenType version actually answers your questions!

From P22 Records and Lanston Type Co.
William Caslon was an 18th century type designer. The William Caslon Experience is an accomplished musical duo who create unique, lush electronic downtempo landscapes. The P22 record label has teamed up with FLT5 records to compile some of our favorite tracks of The William Caslon Experience onto a new CD. This CD contains a brand new remix by Odiorne in addition to a brand new "remixed" Caslon font. The exclusive font can ONLY be purchased by getting this CD.
Read more, download samples and see offers here.

Come hear the The William Caslon Experience CD at a listing party.8 -11pm on Thursday September 8th‚ 2005 At: Prespa, 439 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY. Prespa also uses P22 fonts for their signage!

Odiorne is the musical brainchild of P22s very own Jimy Chambers. The new Odiorne CD released on File 13 Records can also be bought via iTunes, but the first Odiorne EP cannot. It can however be purchased at a special reduced price from P22. Get Want them leaving more for only $5.99, and if you order at the same time as the William Caslon Experience, save on combined shipping!

For August 2005

American Gothic
Two new digital fonts from P22 / International House of Fonts which both exude a Gothic Blackletter feel.
Larkin combines aspects of Germanic Blackletter but with Romanized capital letters and an italic slant. It is evocative of "old world" craftsmanship and early 20th century romanticism.
Numismatic was a font offered by the DeVinne Press in 1905. It was based on letters, Arabic figures and ornaments used by designers and engravers of seals, coins, medals and inscriptions upon metal or stone during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Lanston Type Co. T-shirts
Brand new T-shirts featuring Goudy Heavyface on the front and a Monotype font matrix case on the back

Roycroftie Book
P22 has aquired the last remaining stock of the most authorative book on the the Roycroft Press: A History and Bibliography of a Roycroft Printing Shop by Paul McKenna 2nd edition .

For July 2005

Lanston 3rd Installment
The Lanston Type Co. presents 38 more fonts to bring the P22/Lanston collection to over 100 fonts. Titles included in this release cycle are:
Caslon - A new rendering of the timeless classic in 12 styles
Figures - A symbol font of numbers and currency symbols
Globe Gothic - A charming face in three widths
Goudy Handtooled - Goudy's Oldstyle Bold..with a twist
Hadriano - A goudy Classic resurected with rare original lowercase
Metropolitan - A new revision of Centaur and Arrighi
Powell - Another Goudy design newly digitized
Vine Leaves - Printers ornaments of leaves and...vines
WaterGarden Ornaments - A layered border-making font set

Many Collections
All four divisons of P22 can be purchased as full collections as well as special packs. Order all four collections and we will send a very special bonus gift.

Terminal Book Review
The P22 online type-zine, The Terminal has a review of the book Letterpress: Allure of the handmade.

For June 2005

Cézanne turns "Pro"
P22’s Cézanne is one of the most intriguing script fonts in recent years. It defies the stereotype of the typical font because of its striking look of natural hand lettering. Designers often choose Cézanne for this reason alone. The elongated crossbar of the ‘t’ and the waving baseline are only two of the features that make it such a distinctive face. Cézanne appears just about everywhere, including dozens of CD covers, coffee shop and restaurant facades, menus, packaging, book jackets and even in scrap booking accents. As a result, Cézanne is one of the most popular fonts in the P22 library.

Designers consider Cézanne ideal for various projects. However, one of the drawbacks of its great popularity is that Cézanne may have become too recognizable and possibly not as irregular as one would wish for in a handwriting font. For example, when duplicate letters appear next to each other in a word written in Cézanne, they look identical in all instances. Longtime P22 collaborator James Grieshaber took these concerns to heart and resolved both issues by using the dynamic OpenType format.

The result of Grieshaber’s efforts is Cézanne Pro, an expansive suite of options that allows for several—as many as six!—versions of each letter. There are hundreds of automatic substitutions programmed into the font but designers can also hand-select individual letters for just the right look.

P22 Cézanne Pro includes full western and central European character sets and Cyrillic for typesetting in dozens of languages. It features several types of numerals (lining, oldstyle proportional, tabular, superscript, subscript and fractions), ligatures, snap-on swashes, and word glyphs (the, of, le, and, etc.). This new Cézanne Pro OpenType font includes over 1,200 glyphs and "smart features" that will automatically substitute letter combinations to create an even more natural handwriting effect than was possible with its predecessor.

More and more applications are taking advantage of OpenType features. Users of, for example, Adobe’s Creative Suite and the upcoming Quark Xpress, can take Cézanne to a whole new level. For those who cannot yet use OpenType features, PostScript and TrueType versions of the Cézanne alternate fonts are available. These can be manually intermixed with the original Cézanne to create effects similar to those in the OpenType version or they can be used on their own to achieve the familiar yet "not quite Cézanne" look.

P22 Cézanne Pro brings new flexibility to a proven face, one that thousands of designers worldwide have found irresistible.

More Pro fonts
With the continued growth of P22, IHOF and Lanston... more fonts have been enhanced with OpenType features, expert sets, expanded families and other features that typographers desire. Here are some highlights.

Terminal back on track
The P22 online type-zine, The Terminal is back with a new section featuring book reviews This month U&lc: Influencing design & typography.
Look for upcoming new artciles soon.

For May 2005

Two New (Old) Font Designs
Killkenny - A Victorian design in 5 varieties or combined into one super OpenType font.

St G Schrift - An experimental and surprisingly modern sans serif originally designed by German poet Stefan George in 1907

For April 2005

Second installment of Lanston Type Co. releases
12 titles in 32 styles in PostScript and TrueType formats + 12 OpenType fonts including: Californian,Village #2, Goudy Oldstyle, Goudy Heavyface, Deepdene Bold, Goudy Initials, Octic Gothic, Swing Bold, Fleurons Rogers, Ornaments 1, Ornaments Animalia, & Jefferson Gothic.
Extra notable in the OpenType versions of Goudy Oldstyle and Village #2 is the option for two different lengths of descenders as offered by Lanston in metal...but now available at the click of a button.
Get this collection or the full Lanston collection and get a free...

Lanston Coffee Mug
The brand new Lanston Type Co. mug sporting a 22K gold image of a Monotype Caster on a two tone tea tankard. This mug and others available individually or in discounted sets

P22 Playing Card Design Contest
Our P22 type specimen playing card decks were a smash success. A bit too successful...we are all out! Rather than just re-print them, we thought it might be nice to do an entirely new deck...and have our friends help out. So here's the deal: Design playing cards using P22 fonts and win prizes!

For March 2005

Staunton Script Family
The Staunton Script Family was developed to parallel typographer Ted Staunton’s authorship of a historical novel titled The Clifford Bible. The novel traces seven generations of the Clifford family from entries on the flyleaves of an old family Bible. This collection of fonts was generated to augment the text and reflects some of the stylistic transitions that evolved in a period spanning between the English Civil War (1640s) and the Victorian Era (1839-1901). The scripts illustrate the stylistic transitions from gothic to copperplate, reflecting cultural influences and the characteristics imparted by the evolution of writing instruments- from the quill to the steel nib.

Each distinctive writing style was reconstructed as a font for Mr.
Staunton's Book Project, but the availability to the public is a welcome
addition to designers in search of authentic historical handwriting fonts.. Each font can be downloaded individually at $19.95 each or in one set for a special price of $79.95 (regular combined price: 139.65)

Sample PDF files of each font can also be downloaded for preview from each font's page.

Tsunami Relief - Font Aid III
P22 is proud to be part of the Font Aid project, More than 220 designers worldwide submitted over 400 glyphs for Fleurons of Hope, including Bob Aufuldish, Phil Baines, Peter Bilak, Matthew Carter, Chank Diesel, John Downer, Ed Fella, Verena Gerlach, Yanek Iontef, Jeffery Keedy, Barbara Klunder, Alessio Leonardi, Miles Newlyn, and Sumner Stone. Jim Lyles of Bitstream produced the complex typeface in OpenType for Windows and Macintosh OS X, with a TrueType version available for Mac OS 9 or earlier. For more information and to donate (and get yourself a great dingbat font)

For February 2005

2 new IHOF designs
Bramble by Stephen Rapp is a lively organic font that draws reference from Roman characters rather than Italic forms. Use Normal for small point-size settings to retain legibility. For invigorating display settings try combining Normal and Wild.

Mantra by Amondó Szegi is a blending of the Roman alphabet with Tibetan calligraphy and Hungarian baroque influences to create a true hybrid of world cultures in this striking display font. Manta Xpert includes several alternate letters and ligatures along with three dozen ornamental mandalas.

Tsunami Relief - Font Aid III
P22 is proud to be part of the Font Aid project, which provides 100% of all sales of fonts to relief efforts for the December 26th Tsunami. Through the generous hosting of MyFonts, P22 has donated all sales of its Cezanne and Durer Caps fonts along with many other foundries and designers. Until Feb 18th any purchases through these pages, will have 100% of your purchase donated to Tsunami relief efforts. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT. THIS PHASE OF THE BENEFIT IS NOW ENDED. Over $12,000 was raised for Tsumani Releif efforts!

T-Mugs back in stock
Our licensed London Transport-Edward Johnston tea mug is now back in stock. Special prices if you buy a set of four.

For January 2005

P22 Introduces Lanston Type
Lanston Type continues its hundred-plus year tradition of supplying quality type for discerning users. Now under the P22 type foundry family of font collections, Lanston-P22 will present many of the famous type designs of Frederic Goudy and Sol Hess as well as typographic classics that every designer should have in their library such as the Bodoni and Caslon families. Periodic releases will be announced along with introductory special pricing.

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