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New release!
August 27, 2008
a more functional script
Bergsland Typography releases two new 4-Font Families as a full 8-font family, Amitale
August 1, 2008
Pronounced Ah-mi-tah’-lay: These eight new text fonts are effortlessly readable & graceful.
The basic glyph proportions were originally built on a proof of what was labelled as an 18th Bible font called Minister (I suspect German in the 1920s), this new OpenType Pro family has been expanded to have Caps, lowercase, small caps, & figures to go with each of those character sets 123 456 789. There are many ligatures, a few swashes, fractions, numerators, denominators, and ordinals to infinity.
Amitale is a direct descendent of Brinar (my most popular font ever) and only distantly related to Minister, like some long lost ancestor. This stylish beauty also works very well for display use. There a few unusual ligatures: gg tt ffy bb ty ME NE ct ch sp st Th Wh & more.
The original design called for Book, Wide, & Black weights plus the italics. Wide is still suggested for bold because it does not have all the closed counters of most bolds. But a normal bold for Office users has been added.
The fonts are available here and through MyFonts & Fonts.com in TrueType and PostScript for Mac and PC, plus a 650 character OpenType Pro.
Reduced introductory pricing for the whole family is available only here on this site.
For more information:
- Email: david@bergsland.org
- Phone: 507 345 6065 (email preferred)
- Snail: 314 Van Brunt Street, Mankato, MN 56001
- Email David for a specimen sheet PDF
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