New Typeface Family on the Farm …
December 2011
Gedautal, Stolberg (Aachen, Rhld.), Germany

Remember the early american oldschool M. Fuller-Benton-Stylish gothic fonts (like Franklin Gothic, News Gothic) or the later established Trade Gothic (J. Burke) and even Matthew Carter´s Bell Centennial/Gothic? They all come up with a proportional enlarged x-height, slightly narrow appearance, an antiqua-stylish-open letter »a« and a two-story »g«. It is obvious, that the formal architecture of all these fonts is the result of combining a reasonable legibility with an economic, space-saving setting.

In the design-process of Gedau Gothic we´ve thought about our own contemporary interpretation of those characteristics, combining them with more closed counters (in the glyphs a, c, e, s …), and spice it up with a mild newschool square sans touch.

The naming of Gedau Gothic is an acknowledgement to the valley of Gedau (german: Gedautal), the place we have been living for the last two years. I do not see it in a direct way as a source of inspiration on our fontdesign but working and living here — in direct contact to a »natural« environment — means living in a total balance between work an recreation. We love it !!!

Gedau Gothic comes up with 12 Styles including two regular (Text-)Styles: Book (lighter appearance) and Roman (darker appearance). Because of this you can define the »darkness« or the »lightness« of your text/typesettings more exactly. The complete set of styles are: Light, Book, Roman, Medium, Bold, Black and its oblique counterparts.

The fontfamily can be purchased as a single style, a four-style »small« package (including Roman, Bold, Roman Oblique, Bold Oblique) and as the Gedau Gothic Complete Package with all 12 Styles. Gedau Gothic is part of the Fontfarm Font-Collections »Legible« and »The whole Story«.

Owners of one of these two Font-Collections can order a Single User License of the Gedau Gothic Complete Package at 50% discount.

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// Gedau Gothic »Typetalk-Section« … //

Paperazzo — Mit Leidenschaft für Papier
August 2011
Heusenstamm, Germany

Since April 2011 the Paper-addicted Magazine »Paperazzo« uses our Newtype for Captions, Marks etc. In Issue 04/2011 Paperazzo published a three paged report on the life on the Farm. Many thanks to Susanne Haase (Editor-in-chief) and to Maik Brummundt (Artdirectior); www.maikbrummundt.de

// More Paperazzo-Pics in our »Farmfonts in use« section … //
// view Newtype here … //
// Paperazzo Homepage … // Maik Brummundts Homepage… //

Typodarium 2012 — A Type Calendar
August 2011
Karlsruhe and Mainz, Germany

Two of our Fontfamilies — Ergilo and Newtype — take part in the daily typography dose: The Typodarium !!! (Magma Brand Design, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz)

Quotation (Typodarium.com): »A tear-off calendar, just like the one our grandma used to hang in the kitchen. But this calendar unveils a new font everyday. We can therefore have, a whole year long, the chance to broaden our knowledge, to discover the font's history and developement, to possess a piece of jewellery that is new everyday. On the front, the font will be prominently displayed, and on the back it will be described in details. How it originated, from what or who came the inspiration and where we can obtain the font.«

// More Infos on the Typodarium-Project … //
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FH Aachen — BOXHORN
July 2011
Aachen, Germany

»BOXHORN — das Magazin aus dem Fachbereich Gestaltung der FH Aachen«: The text-heavy burnt-out-and-being-on-fire-issue(#24) is completely realized (Headlines, Copy, Caption, Footer …) with the Caput Fontfamily.

// more (ordering-)info on BOXHORN #24 here … //
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// »Farmfonts in use« section … //

Ergilo Smallcaps: Additional styles …
January 2011
Stolberg (Aachen, Rhld.), Germany

Some people missed it ;-! This is why we decided to add some Smallcaps styles including tabular and proportional oldstyle figures to our Ergilo Fontfamily. Ergilo has now 12 styles: A »Normal Package« and a »Smallcaps Package«, each containing a Book/+Italic, Roman/+Italic and Bold/+Italic style.

Owners of the former Ergilo Complete can upgrade their package for free! AND: There are special (reduced) prices for owners of our packages »Legible« and »The Whole Story« (read mor in the category Ergilo>Price).

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New Typeface Family on the Farm …
November 2010
Stolberg (Aachen, Rhld.), Germany

We love serif style typefaces !!! So there is a new one available on the farm in addition to »Jenny« and »Agendatype«

(Farm) Ergilo is a contemporary interpretation of an »Old Style« Garalde created for usage in long text passages. For Ergilo has a proportional higher x-height and a moderate contrast in the glyph widths it is an economic alternative to »old school proportioned« typefaces.

The Ergilo family has two different regular (text-) Styles: Book (lighter appearance) and Roman (darker appearance). Because of this you can define the »darkness« or the »lightness« of your text/typesettings more exactly.

The Ergilo typeface family comes up with six styles (Book, Roman, Bold, Italic Book, Italic Roman, Italic Bold). It is fitted with tabular and proportional lining figures and a small set of useful ligatures (take a look at chapter Type Talks).

The font is also included in our Fontcollections
»Package Legible« and »The whole story«.
Owners of one of these two packages can order a Single User License of the Ergilo Complete Package for € 48,— (plus 19% VAT/Salestax).

// view Ergilo … // view Ergilo Pricing … //
// read more in the Ergilo »Typetalk-Section« … //

And now for our german readers:
Lesbar und ökonomisch.

Die (Farm) Ergilo ist eine modern anmutende Renaissance-Antiqua, welche vornehmlich auf eine gute Lesbarkeit (auch in Mengentexten) hin konzipiert worden ist. Durch eine proportional höhere x-Höhe und durch einen gemäßigten Glyphenbreitenkontrast läuft sie in der Anwendung ökonomischer als reine »Old School« Renaissance Schriften.

Aus diesem Grund, und weil die Glyphenformen im Detail einen modernen Duktus aufweisen, stellt die Ergilo einen eleganten und zeitgemäßen Schriftentwurf dar, so dass sie über die reine Anwendung in Mengentexten hinaus auch in großen bzw. exponierten Anwendungen gefällt.

Soweit der Werbetext, nun zur Anwendung:

Funktional wartet die Ergilo mit zwei unterschiedlichen Regular-Gewichtungen auf: Roman (etwas schwerer) und Book (etwas leichter). Hierdurch ist es möglich, den Grauwert eines zu setzenden Textes neben anderen typografischen Parametern AUCH über die Wahl des Schriftschnittes zu beeinflussen (Book wirkt heller, Roman wirkt dunkler). Auch ist es möglich — in einem Corporate Design zum Beispiel — die Roman als Textschrift für Drucksachen einzusetzen und die Book für DTP-Eindrucke zu verwenden und hierbei auf den unterschiedlichen Tonwertzuwachs im Druck zu reagieren. Ebenso für farbige Auszeichnungen — welche oft etwas leichter wirken, als der schwarze Grundtext — bietet sich die Paarung an, um unterschiedliche (Grau-) Wirkungen im Satz auszugleichen.

Die Ergilo Familie besitzt insgesamt 6 Schnitte (Book, Roman, Bold, Italic Book, Italic Roman, Italic Bold). Sie ist mit tabularen und proportionalen Versalziffern ausgestattet und verfügt über zusätzliche Ligturen (mehr hierzu in der Rubrik Type Talks).

Ergilo ist auch Bestandteil unserer Schriftsammlungen
»Package Legible« and »The whole story«.
Und: Alle Besitzer eines dieser beiden Packages können eine Single User License des Ergilo Complete Packages für € 48,— (zzgl. 19% MwSt.) erwerben.

// Ergilo ansehen … // Ergilo Preisübersicht … //
// Form und Features: Ergilo »Typetalk-Section« … //

Caput with new styles …
September 2010
Stolberg (Aachen, Rhld.), Germany

Good news for our Caput-fans. The typeface is now available in an extended 16-style version. Now there is a complete set of four weights (Light, Regular, Bold, Heavy) in all Italic, SmallCaps and SmallCaps Italic variations. Upgrade-Packages are available for each Package (Normal, SmallCaps, Complete Package).

Please note that if you upgrade Caput you will get a complete set of new fontfiles. That can perhaps effect changes in your layouts after installing them (because of different Kerning settings in the fonts).

Owner of our »Package Legible« or »The whole story« including the Caput Typeface can upgrade Caput for free.

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// read more in the Caput »Typetalk-Section« … //

Newtype out now …
May 2010
Stolberg (Aachen — Rheinland), Germany

Perhaps you noticed the tiny preview of this font in the »typodarium«, Slanted, in 2009. Now this fontface has grown to a 36-stylish superfamily with monospaced, proportional, normal cutted and rounded, upright and slanted styles.

The font is also included in our Fontcollections »Legible« and »The whole story«.
Owners of one of these two packages can order the complete Newtype family package at 50% discount.

Now a little german: Der Ursprung der Newtype-Sippe ist die Newtype Mono, ein moderner und »verspielt-charmanter« Typewriter-Font. Dieser wurde im Laufe der Projektarbeit durch eine proportionale Schriftfamilie — die Newtype Stereo — erweitert. Zu den Familien Mono und Stereo kamen noch Rounded- und Slanted-Varianten hinzu.

Trotz der konstruiert wirkenden Formen ist die Newtype dank ihrer humanistischen Einflüsse gut lesbar, so dass sie sich (außerhalb des Einsatzes in Romantexten) für alle Gebiete des Kommunikationsdesigns eignet.

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// view the Fontcollections overview … //
// read more in the Newtypes »Typetalk-Section« … //
// view the Fontfarmfonts overview … //

New Custom Typeface grown on the Farm …
January 2010
Stolberg (Aachen — Rheinland), Germany

In 2009 we realized a completely new Typeface for the BÄKO cooperative, Germany. The BÄKOtype is made for universal usage in the new Corporate Design. So it comes out with an open and pure appearance. The formal architecture of the font is close to humanistic proportions with a slight touch of a modern square character.

We established the typefamily with eight styles: Light, Regular, Bold, Heavy and the corresponding italic styles. A small addon is a symbolfont with the most used signs and icons and the BÄKO logo with its claim variants.

This font is just made for the usage in the BÄKO group and it's unfortunately not for sale …

// view our custom(ized) font examples … //
// view baeko.de … //
// view the Fontfarmfonts overview … //

en garde gazette magazine
End of the year 2009
Hochschule Mannheim, Fakultät für Gestaltung

At the turn of the year Anna Schlecker, Mannheim realized her Master-Project with KofiPure as textfont: »en garde gazette ist ein Plädoyer für mehr Protest und Widerstand als Form politischer Auseinandersetzung. Im Magazin werden Organisationen und Menschen vorgestellt, die uns zeigen, dass Gegenentwürfe zu den vorherrschenden gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen möglich sind.«

// view more pics in our »Farmfonts in Use« section … //
// view KofiPure … //
// read more in the KofiPure »Typetalk-Section« … //
// view the homepage of Anna Schlecker … //
// view »en garde gazette« on issuu.com … //

©Pictures: Anna Schlecker

komma Magazine
September 2009
Hochschule Mannheim, Fakultät für Gestaltung

In September 2009 Annika from the »Hochschule Mannheim« sent us some specimens of the new University magazine »komma(5)« which uses the KofiPure Superfamily as textfont.

// view more pics in our »Farmfonts in Use« section … //
// view KofiPure … //
// read more in the KofiPure »Typetalk-Section« … //
// view the komma homepage here … //

©Pictures: komma desk

IT´s THERE !!! Agendatype Rev:2.0
May 2009
Stolberg (Rhld.) / Amsterdam

Sometimes our clients have a benevolent influence on our work: Niels Schrader, Amsterdam, liked to use our Agendatype for realizing the new »Jaarverslag« of the Mondriaan Stichting in Amsterdam. For all the detailed tables and specific terms he needed tabular figures and italic smallcaps which were not implemented in the fontfamily — till now!

We decided to take the chance and to make a complete review of the font. So now Agendatype has two more styles, additional tabular figures and a new typeset with alternate glyphforms to be selected via Opentype Formatset.

Our Agendatype-clients can update the fonts for free, just have a look at // our update page …

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// read more in the Agendatype »Typetalk-Section« … /
// view our »fonts in use Rubrik« … //
// view Niels Schrader @ home … //

Font Management with »Fontcase«
January 2009
France

Just found via flickr: Laurent Baumann, a french user-interface & icon designer (specializing in the Mac OS X platform) used Agendatype for the Icondesign of the new and encouraging fontmanaging software »Fontcase«, published by »Bohemian Coding — Pieter Omvlee«. Quotation: »Fontcase is a font management application that provides an elegant and powerful workflow to help you organise the fonts you have installed on your system. Designed to be an iTunes for your fonts, Fontcase has a powerful tagging system, which is designed to let you control your fonts like you control your music.«

Thanks Laurent, we like the style !-)).

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// view Laurent Baumanns Website … //
// You can buy »Fontcase« here … //

[Farm] Caput released …
September 2008
Stolberg (Aachen — Rheinland), Germany

It´s THERE !!! At the exhibition »Schrift in Form« at the »Klingspormuseum Offenbach« we presented our newest Typeface named CAPUT. And now the Fontfamily is ready for use. Caput is a legible, dynamic contemporary sans serif with a viewable »square character« which gives the typeface a modern, fresh outline in display sizes.

In the beginning Caput comes up with four Normal and four standalone SmallCaps styles and with alternate glyphs (titling-, case- and letterform alternatives) and useful Opentype features — as described in the chapter »Fonts – Caput – Type Talks«.

// view (Farm) Caput … //
// view the Fontfarmfonts overview … //
// view klingspor-museum.de … //

slanted »the antiquaboom issue«
In addition to 2007
Karlsruhe, Germany

In 2007, the typophilic-on-and-offline-magazine »slanted« presented our farm and two of our fonts and published an interview on our work and the relationship to our neighbours :-) …

// view www.slanted.de … //
// view (Farm) Jenny … // view (Farm) Agendatype … //

Sympany
2007–2008
Basel, Switzerland

In 2007 we realized a custom font used by the new ÖKK insurance group »Sympany« (founded in November 2007, online since January 2008). The new brand combines several positive assotiations like sympathy, symphony, synergie, company.

The font was created to work in harmony with the logotype (it´s only used close by the logo for sub-brands, additions and claims) and comes up with some goodies like two different alphabets for display- and text-sizes and the complete integration of various logo styles etc..