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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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 …

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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.«

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©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.

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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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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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[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«.

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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 :-) …

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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..

Typosition: »Case Studies«
January 2008
Offenbach, Germany

Eine tolle Überraschung kam uns Ende des Jahres 2007 ins Haus. Die »Typosition – Botschaft für Typografie und Gestaltung« (Tanja Huckenbeck und Peter Reichard, welche in der »Szene« bekannt sein dürften), sendeten uns ihre neue Imagebroschüre zu: Gestaltet mit der (Farm) Jenny, welche hier sowohl als Display- wie auch als Textschrift zum Einsatz kam.

Happily Married (studio mikmik)
November 2007
West Yorkshire, UK

We are very pleased about doing a little-bitty assistance (donating our font Nafi) to the wedding stationery of Michael Lewis, an ingenious illustrator and designer from Shipley. The invitation – as a part of the whole wedding theme – is terribly cute. We love it.

(Quotation) »The wedding had a ›vintage autumn‹ theme and for the invitations a vintage inspired autumn pattern was created in browns, pinks and white which would carry over into other printed and decorative material for the wedding day itself.«

Bücherjournal des Karin Fischer Verlages
November 2007
Aachen

Ein schönes Belegexemplar für eine gelungene Anwendung der (Farm) KofiPure kam in diesem Monat auf unseren Tisch. Thomas Junold gestaltete die Verlagsübersicht des Karin Fischer Verlages in Aachen mit viel Liebe zum Detail und einem guten Gespür für die Einsatzmöglichkeiten der KofiPure.

»zeixs« Books with (Farm) Parker-Barrow
September 2007
Cologne

(Quotation): »›zeixs‹ is an inseminatting confusion of differently media. Typography, Illustration, Graphic Design, Logotype just as much as Industrial Design and Photography constitute zeixs. Four Books with 700 pages each and beetween 550 and 650 images emerged from this project.«

The books look more than boxes than books, are somehow tiny but solid and are made for browsing and getting inspiration.

Fontfarm backs the »zeixs« project with our fontface Parker-Barrow, which is used here in text and captions.

AQ Works
August 21st, 2007
Tokyo

Chris Palmieri (aqworks.com) published a short interview with Fontfarm on (Farm) Jenny:

Quotation: »For many Japanese designers, the cultural and historical nuances of Western typefaces can seem obscure, making choosing a typeface a daunting task. As a result, many Japanese designers stick with familiar favorites like Helvetica or Garamond, or grasp at decorative fonts that lose their flavor after a few bites. This series was originally conceived for Japanese designers, to introduce well-crafted Western fonts and the contemporary designers behind them. In the end though, we enjoyed these interviews so much ourselves, we decided to publish them in the English too.«

In this (Facetime-) series, some other interesting Type Designers like Eric Olson (Klavika), Jeremy Tankard (Bliss), Jarno Lukkarila (Xtra Sans), Chester Jenkins (Galaxie Polaris), Nikola Djurek (Amalia) are introduced. So perhaps you might have a look …

encore magazine
June 2007
http://www.magwerk.com

Peter Reichard wrote a 10-sided article on (Farm) Jenny in »encore magazine« (issue #33, June 07) …

Ganz vergessen zu posten: In der Juniausgabe #33 des virtuellen »encore magazine« veröffentlichte Peter Reichard (Typosition.de und spatium-magazin.de) einen 10 seitigen Artikel über die (Farm) Jenny. Besonders interessant für uns war die direkte Gegenüberstellung der Jenny mit der Adobe Jenson Pro in Textform, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil wir selber einen solchen Vergleich nach Fertigstellung der Jenny nie realisiert haben. Der Artikel beginnt auf Seite 102 in der deutschen, bzw. auf Seite 80 in der englischen Ausgabe.

KofiPure in use
May 2007
Stuttgart/Peking

Minimalist.cn represents minimalistic Design (the name is program) from Stuttgart and Peking. The work of Björn Maser and He Wei is a symbiosis of emotional imaging and pure kommunikation. Their fields of activity are: Advertising, Corporate Design, Editorial Design, Bookdesign …. They send us some pics of their design for the »Münchener Synagoge Ohel Jakob« (Booklet), realised with (Farm) KofiPure. Thanks a lot.

KofiPure with 15 Styles
March 2007
Aachen, Germany

The work on Kofi has proceeded and now there are 15 Styles available. The last months we worked on three new (Heavy-) styles and minor modifications on some glyphs. All our (Kofi-) clients, who like to get an update of Kofi will recieve an actual Version of the Font for free. You yust have to write a mail to ko@fontfarm.de.

Kofi is available for the old price (Complete Package, single user: € 96,– plus 19% VAT) till the end of April …

PB and PB (Puls Biznesu and Parker-Barrow)
March 2007
Warsaw, Poland

At the end of the year 2006 we customized (Farm) Parker-Barrow for the usage in a polish business newspaper. Beneath special glyphs you need in polish language we made smooth modifications on the diacritic marks. Jacek Utko, a multiple decorated newspaper designer from Poland and design director of Bonnier Business Press – who made the newest re-design on PB (Puls Biznesu) – sent us some issues of the new styled paper. Thank you very much Jacek.

BOXHORN
February 2007
Aachen

We wrote some notes on type design in the new »BOXHORN – Das Magazin aus dem Fachbereich Design der Fachhochschule Aachen«. This is a short – three paged – article on how to start designing type by reviewing our work on (Farm) Jenny. Although it seems to be impossible to describe the type design process in a short feature like this, we gave some clues on the most important questions you have to answer yourself before you start working on type.