New variety pack.
Dashed (thin)
Rounded (medium)
Ultra light
Normal
Bold (race track style double lines)
Black

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Based on work of a famous Czech-American type designer of yesteryear; Bitstream calls this family “Transitional 551”, but we chose a less alluring moniker. The package includes roman and italic. The current version is 1.0.

The fonts normally come with a very liberal MIT-style license, but for the League of Movable Type you may also consider them licensed under the OFL, without a reserved font name. My intention with the MIT-style licensing is that people should modify and redistribute under whatever more restrictive license they prefer.

My own font-related sites:
http://crudfactory.com
http://sortsmill.googlecode.com

http://chemoelectric.deviantart.com

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Linden Hill is a digital version of Frederic Goudy’s Deepdene. The package includes roman and italic. The current version is 1.2.

The fonts normally come with a very liberal MIT-style license, but for the League of Movable Type you may also consider them licensed under the OFL, without a reserved font name. My intention with the MIT-style licensing is that people should modify and redistribute under whatever more restrictive license they prefer.

My own font-related sites:
http://crudfactory.com
http://sortsmill.googlecode.com

http://chemoelectric.deviantart.com

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This ain’t no Lucinda. League Script #1 is a modern, coquettish script font that sits somewhere between your high school girlfriend’s love notes and handwritten letters from the ’20s. Designed exclusively for the League of Moveable Type, it includes ligatures and will act as the framework for future script designs.

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Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface, designed in a single thin weight. It is a display face that features both old style and lining numerals, standard and discretionary ligatures, a pretty complete set of diacritics, as well as a stylistic alternate inspired by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than it’s neo-grotesque inspired default character set.

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“Prociono” (pro-tsee-O-no) is an Esperanto word meaning either the star Procyon or the animal species known as the raccoon. It is a roman with blackletter elements.

This font pre-dates the League and was placed by me into the public domain, so actually the restrictions of the OFL do not apply to it.

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Orbitron is a geometric sans-serif typeface intended for display purposes. It features four weights (light, medium, bold, and black), a stylistic alternative, small caps, and a ton of alternate glyphs. Orbitron was designed so that graphic designers in the future will have some alternative to typefaces like Eurostile or Bank Gothic. If you’ve ever seen a futuristic sci-fi movie, you have may noticed that all other fonts have been lost or destroyed in the apocalypse that led humans to flee earth. Only those very few geometric typefaces have survived to be used on spaceship exteriors, spacestation signage, monopolistic corporate branding, uniforms featuring aerodynamic shoulder pads, etc. Of course Orbitron could also be used on the posters for the movies portraying this inevitable future.

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Based on Frederic Goudy’s Kennerley Oldstyle.

This font predates the League and is in the public domain.

A few words on why I think Kennerley Oldstyle is beautiful: In making this font, I discovered that Kennerley fits together tightly and evenly with almost no kerning. Thus the following words from Monotype specimen books are just: “[W]hen composed into words the characters appear to lock into one another with a closeness common in early types, but not so often seen in later-day creations.” These are letters that take command of the space around them; notice, for instance, the bowed shapes of the v and w.

Side note: The preview includes public domain clipart from openclipart.org. Go visit!

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League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic No.1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993. And since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.

We decided to make our own version, and contribute it to the Open Source Type Movement. It’s free, not only in price, but in freedom.

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Our apologies for double-posting, dear readers – but here’s the intended post, with links.

Good Evening Type Aficionados,

We’re grateful for the patience you have all bestowed upon us in the previous several weeks, most particularly through our Greatly Unstable Server Switch. The Founders have been working feverishly to get things going again, including bringing incredible new things to our communal table – all of which will be revealed in the coming months, weeks, and, most excitingly – hours.

We recently welcomed a new contributor, Mr. Barry Schwartz and his new typeface Sorts Mill Goudy to The League. And in just a few moments, we’ll be making history with the addition of our very own typeface, one we’ve been working on endlessly for weeks.

Because of the internal changes we’ve been cooking up, we’re afraid you’ll have to resubscribe to our new RSS feed address. Consider this its permanent address, used for our most important announcements.

To keep up with other exciting news regarding new features, sneak-peeks, and the latest state of the movement, you can subscribe for our new newsletter. . If you’ve sent us anything before, we’ve taken the trouble of adding your email to the list already, which you can unsubscribe from at your discretion.

And lastly, let us say once more, thank you. Thank you to all who have offered to join us, thank you to our contributors, and thank you to everyone working to improve the state of the Internet.

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We’re grateful for the patience you have all bestowed upon us in the previous several weeks, most particularly through our Greatly Unstable Server Switch. The Founders have been working feverishly to get things going again, including bringing incredible new things to our communal table – all of which will be revealed in the coming months, weeks, and, most excitingly – hours.

We recently welcomed a new contributor, Mr. Barry Schwartz and his new typeface Sorts Mill Goudy to The League. And in just a few moments, we’ll be making history with the addition of our very own typeface, one we’ve been working on endlessly for weeks.

Because of the internal changes we’ve been cooking up, we’re afraid you’ll have to resubscribe to our new RSS feed address. Consider this its permanent address, used for our most important announcements.

To keep up with other exciting news regarding new features, sneak-peeks, and the latest state of the movement, you can subscribe for our new newsletter. . If you’ve sent us anything before, we’ve taken the trouble of adding your email to the list already, which you can unsubscribe from at your discretion.

And lastly, let us say once more, thank you. Thank you to all who have offered to join us, thank you to our contributors, and thank you to everyone working to improve the state of the Internet.

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12 Sept 2009: updated to version 2.1, which fixes some hinting problems and possible installation problems on Microsoft platforms.

A ‘revival’ of Goudy Oldstyle and Italic, with features among which are small capitals (in the roman only), oldstyle and lining figures, superscripts and subscripts, fractions, ligatures, class-based kerning, case-sensitive forms, capital spacing. There is support for many languages that use latin script.

Currently there is no bold, but artificial emboldening by a web browser isn’t especially offensive with these fonts.

Related material for font developers, and versions with different (but still free) licensing, are available at my project page: http://sortsmill.googlecode.com

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Two styles: Midnight (solid) & 2AM (reversed)

Eats holes for breakfast lunch and dinner. Inspired by filling in sans-serif newspaper headlines. Continually updated with coffee and music. Makes your work louder than the next person’s.

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Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use.

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Flaminia is a 2008 opensource project started as a Master Degree Thesis by Andrea Bergamini, an Italian graphic designer annoyed by the chaotic and poorly designed road signage system in his country.

The leading idea was that tests taken in real-life conditions are the only way to validate the design of a font to be used for signage and that the final solution should always come from all of the modifications derived by those experiments.

These considerations led to the design of Flaminia, a typographical system that allows its users and its future designers to quickly morph (through the use of Multiple Master axes) different variants of the glyphs.

By allowing minimal changes of only one variable in the letter shapes, Flaminia also provides a tool to study which are the most relevant factors in the process of reading signs, and can be used free of charge for further researches in this field.

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A rounded display face that’s great for headlines. It includes an almost full MacRoman/WinANSI character set.

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Inspired by my favorite humanist sans serif typefaces, such as Meta, Myriad, and Scala, Junction is where the best qualities of serif and sans serif typefaces come together. It has the hand drawn and human qualities of a serif, and still retains the clarity and efficiencies of a sans serif typeface. It combines the best of both worlds.

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