For December 2002

Arts and Crafts Font Pack

Our Ancient History, Modernist and Signature font packs received an overwhelming popular response. We have a new specially priced combo—the Arts and Crafts Pack.

 

Tip of the Month

Just in time for the Winter holidays...learn how to make snowflakes from alphabets and dingbats.

 

PC Magazine sez...

Popular columnist John Dvorak has declared that "P22 has a fabulous assortment of fonts. The Web site also offers fonts from the International House of Fonts and the Font Pavilion. It's a gold mine for designers looking for something distinctive." see this and other Press about P22.


 

For October 2002

New Catalog

Our new print catalog has arrived! If you would like to receive one, just request a copy here. For instant gratification, download the PDF versions of either the IHOF or the P22 catalogs; both contain the latest font selections on this site.

 

Indie-Fonts

P22's publishing division is proud to announce a brand new reference book, Indie-Fonts, featuring over 2000 fonts from 18 foundries. Purchase the book and receive a bonus CD-ROM containing 33 specially selected fonts...all for only $39.95!

 

Blackletter fonts from IHOF

The latest offering from our International House of Fonts division is SchwarzKopf from Gábor Kóthay. This 18th century "Schwabacher" Blackletter features Old and New style variations.

 

Ancient History Font Pack

Our Modernist and Signature font packs received an overwhelming popular response. We're rewarding our loyal customers with another in the series—our Ancient History Pack.


 

For August 2002

New ART DECO font set!

The latest P22 set is now available. Art Deco features 2 alphabets and a set
of extras. Special introductory price of only $19.95 until Aug 31st!


Updated IHOF set!

The recent release of Tyndale is now complimented by Tyndale Xtras. Now get both for a special limited discount price of only $24.95... Only until August 31st.


For July 2002

New Modernist and Signature Pack Download Specials!

Our popular Artist Signature Pack and Modernist Font Pack sets were previously only available on CD; now you can download these sets (at a special price for a limited time only)

 

P22 helps sponsor Typecon2002

The annual gathering of type designers, graphic designers, educators and those who simply love type!


 

For June 2002

2 new fonts from International House Of Fonts

The download-only division of P22 type foundry brings you Frenzy from Michael Clark and Tyndale from Ted Staunton

 

Day of the Dead at P22

Our Posada set has moved from IHOF to P22...with a new name and a great new price!

 

New CD from Odiorne

Former Mercury Rev member's latest project, now on P22 records


 

For May 2002

New Modernist Pack Special!

Based on the very positive reception of our Artist Signature Pack, we now have put together another CD collection of our popular Modernist font sets at an unbelievable price!


 

For April 2002

New William Morris font set!

Arts & Crafts enthusiasts will love our latest offering: the classic designs of William Morris designed for digital use. These fonts are faithfully based on the Kelmscott press type designs.

 

Dearest font wins prestigious award!

Our Dearest Script font has won one of the judges choice awards from the Type Directors Club, read about it here.


 

For March 2002

New Shopping Cart

To make your on-line shopping experience less of a hassle, we have implemented our new shopping cart. Now you can order Mugs and downloadable fonts at the same time...and have your fonts on your computer in minutes!

 

Awards and Press

We have decided to post some of our various accolades rather than just allude to them throughout the site. So you can see Awards here and Press Reports here.

 

Tip of the Month

Its been a few months since our last one...but here is a quick illustrated tip on spicing up your fonts (actually it's fonting up your spices).


 

For February 2002

Amazing Library Offers

P22 has teamed up with Garagefonts to offer both foundry collections for an unprecedented combined price $1544 for over 790 fonts. Available for PC or Mac. That's less than $2 a font. What a deal! See here for details.

 

If that's not enough

We have several collections that should satisfy the hungriest of font appetites

 

New P22 Art Nouveau font set

Yes, a new class P22 set! It's been a while since we introduced a new P22 set because we have been working on IHOF, but here is one of several new introductions for 2002.


 

For January 2002

Holiday Sale extended!

Favorable response always gets us to reconsider special offers, so...
Many sale prices and combinations have been extended indefinitely.

 

2 new fonts from International House Of Fonts

Platten and Ambient make their debut at IHOF, plus now, the entire IHOF collection can be obtained on one CD at a special price.

 

New CD and MP3s from Atom Smash records

Our sibling company offers downloadable MP3s and a new full length CD from Jackdaw.


 

For December 2001  

Free Euro font

The euro symbol has slowly been making its way into all fonts. Some of our older fonts do not have one, so we collected them all into one P22 Euro font. It is free for the taking.


 

For November 2001

P22 TypeCaster™

Hot on the heels of the IHOF TypeCaster™ font test drive tool is the P22 TypeCaster™ . Now you can type a name or slogan of your choice to see how it looks in any of our fonts...before you buy the fonts!

 

12 more fonts from International House Of Fonts

The download-only division of P22 type foundry This month introduces IHOF selections from Arthur Baker (USA), Gabor Kothay (Hungary),Hajime Kawakami (Japan), and a new set from P22 designers inspired by JG Posada's Day of the Dead prints ( a little late for this year, but 363 days ahead for next year!)

 

P22/IHOF Diner Mug

Our latest Coffee Mug offers retro styling and is one heavy ceramic vehicle for our corporate branding.


 

For October 2001

Font Aid II

The Typographic community has rallied to put together a font that reflects reactions to the September 11th tragedies. Font Aid II is a font made up of almost 100 question mark (?)glyphs created by designers from over 20 countries. This font can be purchased. All proceeds are being donated to the Red Cross.

 

3 new font families from International House Of Fonts

The new download-only division of P22 type foundry. This month introduces IHOF selections from Arthur Baker (USA), Amondo Szegi (Hungary) and Hajime Kawakami (japan). If that's not enough, IHOF also debuts the new TypeCaster™ font test drive tool. Now you can type your name or slogan of your choice to see how it looks...before you buy the font.


 

For September 2001

International House Of Fonts
IHOF is the new designer spotlight division of P22 type foundry. IHOF features 16 new fonts plus designer bios and more! It may look like a whole new company, but it is still P22...with a cyber-twist.

 

Quantity Discounts

P22 type foundry and its new sibling, International House of Fonts, now offers an automatic discount for all downloaded fonts once a certain level is reached during a single order session. The discount schedule is:

  • $105-204.99 - 10% off
  • $205-304.99 - 15% off
  • $305 or more - 20% off

This discount has always been in place for mail-order, but now it is automatic for downloadable fonts—plus you can combine your P22 and IHOF fonts in one order. (The discount does not apply to the Works collection or the Font Pavilion fonts.)


 

For August 2001

Tip of the month

Early Celtic Upper and Lower Case
Our Kells font set strives to keep historical accuracy living in harmony with 21st century computer use. Here is one way it does.


 

For July 2001

Tip of the month

Using Arts and Crafts has proven to be a little tricky. We updated the font a little while back, so we make a few suggestions on using various versions of this very popular font.


 

For May 2001

Bitstream Type Odyssey

A new collection of 1000 fonts—including a few from P22. Because of our involvement, we are authorized resellers of this CD collection. Click to learn more (plus a special offer if you order through P22).


Fonts in use samples

People often ask to see example of our fonts in use. We have collected many of them and now you can see them for yourself. Look for the "This font in use" button in the bottom right area of each font page. Clicking on this button will take you to several samples of actual usage of that font or font set. These samples give a varied cross section of the typographic possibilities to give you inspiration, or just allow you to see how other people make use of our fonts. Many of these examples have been sent in for our monthly contest, so send in your designs. They just might win!


 

For April 2001

New Tea Mug

A fine 12 oz. ceramic mug features the P22 London Underground font. The design is a licensed adaptation of a design that was used by London Transport a few years back.

 

Royalty Free Photo Collage Illustrations A collection of 20 high resolution images
by Richard Kegler

These illustrations are not your typical clip photos. They are however for sale as a collection on CD and can be used freely for a variety of publishing projects.

 

Tip of the month

All Caps is not always all good
Click here for our monthly type tip.

 

Suggested Reading

A new page dedicated to books we have found helpful—and links to how to buy them. Click here for books that P22 staff members recommend.