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Boncaire Titling

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Inspired by the type elements of 17th century Dutch mapmaking, Boncaire Titling provides you with a historic yet adventurous look for your library. This addition from insigne™ found its muse in a map of Curacao by Dutch cartographer Gerard Van Keulen, a member of the prosperous Van Keulen family from Amsterdam, who were engaged in the manufacture of maps for seafaring.

Much thanks on this project goes to The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, housed at the Boston Public Library. Through the center’s kindness, I was able to view a number of period maps in person and to meet with curators, who explained more about the Van Keulen family and the way maps of the period were created.

Maps are fascinating; they come with the promise of treasure to be uncovered. Examining the map itself, too, you can find great wealth in the details so artfully condensed to that single piece of paper--details carried over into this new insigne font. For your next project, explore the imagination potential in Boncaire Titling.

While I studied the maps, I narrowed in on some of the original type’s unique idiosyncrasies. For instance, the long, exaggerated serifs, which give the forms a sense of stability, aid in the face’s legibility--largely a byproduct of the engraving method that was used to create the metal plates for manufacturing these maps. In creating Boncaire Titling, I decided to capture these unique idiosyncrasies, embracing the character of the engravings rather than removing them entirely through “over-refining” the forms. The result is an elegant family with far more than seafaring potential.

This font has a full range of six weights, from thin to black. It also includes a wide variety of OpenType alternates. All insigne™ fonts are fully loaded with OpenType features. Boncaire Titling is also equipped for complex professional typography, including alternates, smaller titling caps and plenty of alts, including “normalized” capitals and lowercase letters. There are over 30 autoreplacing ligatures, and the face includes a number of numeral sets, including fractions, old-style and lining figures with superiors and inferiors. OpenType capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe suite can take full advantage of automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. You can find these features demonstrated in the .pdf brochure.

Boncaire Titling also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages, including Central, Eastern and Western European languages. In all, Boncaire Titling supports over 40 languages that use the extended Latin script, making the new addition a great choice for multi-lingual publications and packaging.

Maps are fascinating; they come with the promise of treasure to be uncovered. Examining the map itself, too, you can find great wealth in the details so artfully condensed to that single piece of paper--details carried over into this new insigne font. For your next project, explore the imagination potential in Boncaire Titling.

New from insigne: Sancoale Softened

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:23:00 +0000

Sancoale Softened is the new rounded companion to Sancoale. While the original Sancoale is crisp and defined, its delicate forms also lend themselves well to a lighter, more rounded version. The stems of Sancoale Softened are blunted, and its corners have been carefully rounded, avoiding the “sausage” look seen with some rounded fonts.

This blend of definition and delicacy makes the Sancoale Superfamily versatile and appropriate for a variety of applications. The design minimizes the characters to their essence, leaving a default set of simple characters without notches or spurs. However, the typeface family’s slightly technological feel still appears friendly and approachable to the reader. It’s slightly condensed proportions and tall x-height also make the design readable at a wide range of sizes, which works especially well for web pages. These softer letterforms give Softened its unique, futuristic look--great for distinguishing your text or display. There are six weights with true italics.

All insigne™ fonts are fully loaded with OpenType features. Sancoale Softened is also equipped for complex professional typography, including alternates with stems, small caps and plenty of alts, including “normalized” capitals and lowercase letters. The face includes a number of numeral sets, including fractions, old-style and lining figures with superiors and inferiors. OpenType capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe suite can take full advantage of automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. You can find these features demonstrated in the .pdf brochure.

The Sancoale family also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages, including Central, Eastern and Western European languages. In all, Sancoale Softened supports over 40 languages that use the extended Latin script, making the new addition a great choice for multi-lingual publications and packaging.

Sancoale Softened continues with Sancoale’s successfully simple, geometric and legible structure. With its suitability for a wide range of uses, the Sancoale superfamily is a very economical and versatile addition to any designer’s font collection.

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New from insigne: Marintas

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0000

Marintas is a sleek upright italic that offers you a modern look and feel. This elegant sans serif comes across as lively, yet comfortable. Some semi slab characteristics of the font give it a face-forward momentum. These semi slabs, even with their geometric construction, are fluid shapes with a soft hint of brushstroke. The soft curves of Marintas paired with its playful but geometric semi slabs or ending strokes give the face its spirited--though friendly--eye-catching appearance.

The Marintas family is comprised of 8 variants, ranging from Thin to Ultra. Its incredible versatility ranges from the delicate hairline to the extreme ultra weight. The heavier weights show some similarity to Antique Olive, and the face has an exuberant South American or Latin feel. This type family is well-suited for advertising, retail, food and beverage products as well as for use in magazines, logotypes, and books. The fonts lend themselves to display settings, but are still very usable for longer copy. Because of its large x-height, the typeface is legible at very small sizes and as a webfont.

Marintas has support for extended Latin character set. A wide range of Western languages are also supported, including Central, Eastern and Western European languages. In all, Marintas supports over 40 languages that use the extended Latin script, making Marintas a great choice for multi-lingual publications and packaging.

All insigne fonts are fully loaded with OpenType features. Marintas is also equipped for complex professional typography and includes ligatures, alternate characters and fractions. The face includes a number of numeral sets, including old-style and lining figures with superiors and inferiors. OpenType-savvy applications such as Quark or the Adobe Creative Suite can take full advantage of the automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages. Check out the informative .pdf brochure to see these features in action.

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New from insigne: Aviano Contrast

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:17:00 +0000

The Aviano series returns, refined and sophisticated with an extended, high-contrast sans-serif family. Aviano Contrast is a contemporary typeface radiating with luxury. It’s classic elegance makes it perfect for high-end applications such as cosmetic, jewelry or fashion brands.

Aviano Contrast’s extended forms give the face a smart look, and the curves are carefully honed to be sinuous and seductive. This high-contrast face is in a class of its own, composed in the style of a classic Didone but lacking the typical serifs.

Aviano Contrast comes in six different weights and is packed with OpenType features. Need swash forms? Ball terminals? Art Deco alternates inspired by the inscriptions and signage of the ’20s and ’30s? Aviano Contrast includes 230 alternate characters. Twelve style sets are available, including four complete sets of art deco-inspired alternates, small forms, swash, titling and a wide array of other alternates to make your designs unique. As a complement to these characters, Aviano Contrast also includes 40 discretionary ligatures for artistic typographic compositions. Please see the informative .pdf brochure to see these features in action.

OpenType capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe Creative suite can take full advantage of the automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages.

The rest of the Aviano series pairs very well with this face. These include Aviano, Aviano Serif, Aviano Sans, Aviano Didone, Aviano Flare, Aviano Future and Aviano Slab.

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Aviano Contrast: Coming Soon

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:37:00 +0000

Coming January 2012.

Watch its development here on Typophile.

Aviano Series

New from insigne: Blue Goblet Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:44:00 +0000

insigne™ is pleased to present new Christmas ornaments as the latest in the Blue Goblet series--a series of fonts and ornaments by artist Cory Godbey. This best-selling series has now been extended to include a new Christmas-themed member.

Hand drawn by the artist, the Blue Goblet additions are a fun and lively take on Christmas ornaments. Expressive and spontaneous, these ornaments seem to dance their way across the page. They can be used in conjunction with the original Blue Goblet Ornaments and the Blue Goblet fonts, which include both a sans serif and serif member. Combine them to form interesting compositions, or insert them directly into your layout as chapter headings or illustrations. There are over 60 of the Christmas-themed ornaments, including Christmas trees, bows, ivy and more. Check out the .pdf or the promotional graphics to see all of these great options.

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New from insigne: Sommet Slab Rounded

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:07:00 +0000

Sommet Slab is the latest in the Sommet series, designed as a slab serif companion to Sommet Rounded. The typeface features slightly wider counters to accommodate the serifs and this more generous whitespace allows the typeface to display well on-screen and as a webfont. Rounded serifs give the face more warmth than the original Sommet Slab, which is strong, rigid and technical. Sommet Slab Rounded’s serifs are not just blunted, but slightly obliqued, giving the face dynamic forward momentum. This geometric typeface is based on bold and clean rounded rectangles.

It’s soft and friendly look lends itself to a number of applications. It would be a fine choice for tech company logotypes, magazine headlines and can be used for body copy.

The typeface family also includes some alternate titling forms. These alternates can be accessed by activating OpenType features and style sets. In order to use these OpenType features, you will need a program with advanced typography capabilities such as the Adobe Suite or Quark. These alternates include a group of simplified forms that can be accessed under the swash alternates.

Sommet Slab is just the latest in the versatile Sommet superfamily from insigne. Be sure to check out the rest of the design family that includes serif and sans members.

Sommet Slab Rounded is 20% off for a limited time!

Aviano Flare makes the Today show.

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:01:00 +0000

Yes, you know you've arrived when you are on the Today Show...via a label. Anyway, here is Aviano Flare on Avant Chardonnay on the Today Show.

Purchase Aviano Flare on MyFonts.com

Aviano Serif in Thor

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:50:00 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised to see Aviano Serif in the Thor end credits. There is a very cool space flyby that ends with Aviano Serif, just before the Post-End Credit Teaser. Screenshots below.

Flyby

Thor in Aviano Serif.

Too bad they didn't use it for the posters. I want to expand my "Movie posters featuring Aviano" collection.

The movie was surprisingly good; the teasers looked pretty stupid, but I wanted to see this after watching Captain America. 3.75/5 stars

New from insigne: Pauline Didone

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:23:00 +0000

An Art Deco and script inspired typeface for “modern” times, Pauline Didone is a full type family with a unique and flavorful design. It has a sense of femininity and naïveté that comes from its predecessor, Pauline. It’s a typeface useful for short bits of copy, logotypes and interesting titling. This typeface family of 10 different fonts includes 5 weights and their italics and a wide range of OpenType alternates.

The original Pauline was inspired by and has a strong influence from retro scripts. The typeface is geometric, formed with deliberate contrasting brush strokes and a ostentatious flair. Pauline Didone's high contrast strokes give it a very interesting look that is up to date with latest design trends and very useful for today's design environment. Pauline Didone pairs nicely with the original sans-serif Pauline.

The typeface family also includes a full array of alternate forms, including over 150 alternate characters. These alternates can be accessed by activating OpenType features and style sets. In order to use these features, you will need a program with advanced typography capabilities such as the Adobe Suite or Quark. These alternates also include a group of ball terminals that can be accessed under the swash alternates.

Pauline Didone is the latest in a trusted line of typefaces from insigne. Why settle for the ordinary when you can choose Pauline Didone to lend its unique look to your art work?

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Eigerdals in Little Big Planet 2.

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:55:00 +0000

Did you know that Eigerdals is used in Little Big Planet 2?

You can see it used in some promo videos.

Eigerdals is used extensively in the menus.

Purchase and view Eigerdals

New from insigne: Sancoale Narrow

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:07:00 +0000

Sancoale Narrow is a carefully honed and meticulously crafted new family member for the Sancoale series. Sancoale Narrow has been specially designed to allow for even more versatility for the Sancoale Family. Sancoale Narrow continues with Sancoale’s successful simple, geometric and legible structure. It is a contemporary design that is distinctive and unique. This new narrow addition can be used in conjunction with the original Sancoale, but it can also stand on its own.

Narrow type comes in a handy in a myriad of situations, from poster design, book covers, web pages to editorial layout. Sancoale Narrow’s six weights make for a typeface family that is very useful for many applications, and also includes a set of true italics. The design is simplified without stems or spurs in the default character set. OpenType alternates do include alternates with stems, Small Caps, Fractions, Tabular Figures, and plenty of alts, including “normal” capitals and lowercase letters. Please see the informative .pdf brochure to see these features in action. Sancoale Narrow also includes a full array of Latin diacritics for multilingual support.

The Sancoale superfamily is suitable for a wide range of uses and is a very economical and versatile addition to any designer’s font collection. Sancoale Narrow is 20% off for a limited time.

Blue Goblet Serif: A new member of the hand-drawn Blue Goblet Series

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:10:00 +0000

Blue Goblet is a series of fonts and ornaments by Cory Godbey and Jeremy Dooley. This best selling series has now been extended to include a new member, Blue Goblet Serif. Blue Goblet Serif comes with a variety of weights and also an outline version. Blue Goblet is hand-lettered by the artist, Cory Godbey, and is organic, spontaneous and exuberant. Characters bounce and dance above and below the baseline and x-height, making this a whimsical and fun script.

Not only is Blue Goblet Serif a excellent choice, it also is a member of a wide family of different fonts. You can use it side by side with the original Blue Goblet, and there are a wide range of ornaments available, totaling over 350 illustrations! These illustrations include frames, florals and other text ornaments that can be inserted into your text and resized at will. This makes the Blue Goblet series a great pick when you want a type system that works very well together for a very unique and consistent look. The Blue Goblet series continues to grow and be expanded, making it a valuable investment.

Blue Goblet Serif also includes auto replacing ligatures that make it appear that the script was drawn by the artists own hand, just for you! Blue Goblet Serif also includes a wide variety of alternates that can be accessed in any OpenType enabled application. Blue Goblet includes over 150 OpenType glyphs, and is loaded with features including an even more unique alternate alphabet. Included are swash alternates, style sets, old style figures and small caps. Please see the informative PDF brochure to see these features in action. OpenType enabled applications such as the Adobe suite or Quark can take full advantage of the automatic replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages.

Blue Goblet Serif is great choice for display and short blocks of display text, children’s books, packaging, or other unique applications. Fill in the counter spaces with color for a unique look, or alternate the different weights. Use Blue Goblet whenever you want to inject a sense of fun and whimsy to your designs.

Give the Blue Goblet series a try today!

DevChatt

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:31:00 +0000

I had the chance to talk to a group of developers at DevChatt 11. I spoke on webfonts. The talk was recorded, so hopefully I can put the audio up soon. The presentation is available here:

I am very happy about my move to Chattanooga (in addition to moving here to be with my wife). There are some tremendous things happening, and a very strong entrepreneurial spirit abounds. After attending DevChatt, I was inspired to brush off a few business ideas and I hope to develop these further. One is related to my core competency, typography, while the other is in a totally different field. I was also inspired by listening to Ale Paul and Luc De Groot in New York City this past week.

Here are a few links to some inspiring local organizations:

Interview on Hypefortype!

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:21:00 +0000

I just got word that an interview I did with Hypefortype is up on their blog! They have some awesome stuff going on over there, with plenty of exclusive faces, and a tremendously well designed site. Check it out!

Typekit/Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:55:00 +0000

For those of you interested in getting Typekit working on Blogger (like me...) here is a handy video I stumbled on.

The Seven Deadly Sans...

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Sun, 22 May 2011 18:28:00 +0000

The "7 Deadly Sans." from Hypefortype includes 3 from insigne. A very well designed type showing to boot!

New from insigne: Savigny

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:11:00 +0000

Savigny began as an offshoot of Le Havre. Le Havre met my design objective of a geometric sans serif with a strong art deco touch. Le Havre’s primary inspiration came from the art deco titling of the 1930's, and the lower case was just icing. The art of the 1930s's is of particular interest to me, and I love the art deco era and it's art, and the simplicity of geometric shapes. I am mostly interested in designing display typefaces. In many ways Le Havre was the exact opposite of another popular insigne offering, Aviano Sans. Le Havre has very high ascenders, a lower case and is very condensed. Aviano Sans has no lowercase and extremely extended capitals.

With the rise of webfonts I began to see Le Havre being used frequently online. It's short x-height and very tall ascenders made it difficult to read in on screen text settings as it was intended as display type. With this observation, I felt that there is more room for a geometric sans in the insigne catalog. So I set about to design a new geometric sans using the successful skeleton of the Le Havre family.
Although I planned to extend the Le Havre line, the new family is so drastically different I decided on a new name: Savigny. The face evolved and began to take on a few humanist touches. Designed from the very beginning as a webfont, the design is open and pleasing to the eye, with a tall x-height. To optimize it for onscreen settings, the spacing is generous. In addition, it includes extended and condensed members, making it insigne’s first superfamily.

The family includes over 100 OpenType alternate characters. These include several style sets. Some are stemless, others are purely geometric, and in a nod to Savigny’s origins, Art Deco titling alternates. Please see the informative .pdf brochure to see these features in action.
OpenType capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe suite can take full advantage of the automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages. Savigny is a great choice for a professional designer that wants a well rounded typeface family that is ready for the web.

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Biscuit Boodle for free!

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:19:00 +0000

For a limited time, get Biscuit Boodle Regular for free. Be sure to check out the alternate, as well as the ornaments.

New from insigne: Cavole

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:30:00 +0000

Cavole Slab is a new slab serif, designed in early 2011, that has a strong influence from Dutch typography. The name is an altered form of the Portuguese word for feather, emphasizing the typeface’s soft and friendly character. Slab serifs give this face plenty of impact and make it an excellent choice for contemporary designers. The font family includes a very dark and powerful black all the way down to a hairline thin weight, giving a tremendous versatility. The family also features dynamic italics that add plenty of emphasis and momentum.

Cavole Slab is suitable for both headline and text settings and should easily find its place in a number of different settings, from corporate identity to magazine body copy.

There are six weights that come with complementary italics, and each font includes over 450 characters and extended Latin-based language support. The typeface family comes in OpenType format, and OpenType alternates are easily accessible through OpenType enabled applications such as the Adobe suite or Quark. Please see the informative .pdf brochure to see what OpenType features are available and to see them in action.

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Sancoale featured in MyFonts Rising Stars newsletter

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:11:00 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised to see Sancoale made it into the Rising Stars newsletter. Sancoale is available for a limited time for 20 percent off. This won't last long, so grab it while its hot.

Pauline was also mentioned later in the article. I track my font statistics and Pauline unexpectedly moved up to be the one of my most popular font families. Not bad for a font released in 2008.

insigne website updated!

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:24:00 +0000

Sancoale, Sommet Serif and Aviano Future are now available directly from insigne!

New from insigne: Sancoale

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:05:00 +0000

Sancoale is a new sans serif that is simple and geometric. It is a contemporary design that is distinctive and unique, but not too far outside the box. This makes for a typeface family that is very useful for many applications. The design is simplified without stems or spurs in the default character set. The OpenType alternates do include alternates with stems, and there are six weights with true italics. Please see the informative .pdf brochure to see these features in action.

OpenType capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe suite can take full advantage of the automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages. Sancoale is a great choice for a professional designer that wants to achieve a simple but still unique look.

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insigne in Knoxville News

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:18:00 +0000

Recently I was interviewed by Knox News's Allison Simmons. Check it out here.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Dooley) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:23:00 +0000

On my way to India with my fiancé, now wife and (that’s entirely different story that I will go into in a later blog posting) I had the opportunity to see "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps on the in-flight entertainment. To my pleasant surprise, Aviano Slab was used numerous times in the movie for the logotype of the fictional company "Churchill Schwartz." The font also features prominently in the trailer emblazoned on the side of a helicopter. The helicopter also uses the Aviano Eagle for the logo of this fictional evil company. I put a few screencaps of the trailer below. I enjoyed this movie, and give it 3.5 stars.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleep Synopsis