Is Steinweiss Your Type? Pre-Valentine’s Sale!

Mark your iCals! The Steinweiss Script 20% off sale will begin on Tuesday, February 8th.

Steinweiss is the perfect type for helping to pull you out of your shell, and getting you to express your most heartfelt sentiments.

Available in Bold, Medium and Light, or all together as a loving Family.

Just go to Alphabet Soup on (or after) February 8th to hook up.

If you’d like to cozy up and get more familiar with Steinweiss before jumping into a serious relationship, read Steven Heller’s recent Imprint article. Steinweiss Script also features prominently in the lovingly composed interview I just did for Creative Characters.

Just Revealed: 3 Colors Typesetting With PowerStation Fonts

It’s always nice when someone reveals something new to you about your own work. That’s what has recently happened in the preparation of the Creative Characters newsletter that MyFonts has just published on my work. While helping to prepare font samples for the sidebar, Anthony Noel was experimenting with my PowerStation fonts, and stumbled across a capability that I had not intended.

In setting the copy he inadvertantly combined both PowerStation Block and PowerStation Wedge. When I designed this font for 2-color layered typesetting, I had not even considered combining these two fonts on layers, one over the other. But that’s exactly what Mr. Noel did, with what for me were unexpectedly interesting results. I would have never thought it would work, and so never tried it.

So what’s come out of this is that we’ve discovered that PowerStation can now be typeset in three colors. Two color typesetting was always achievable with either the PowerStation Block fonts or the PowerStation Wedge fonts. The difference is that one would need BOTH of those packages in order to set type in three colors. PowerStation my be purchased from Alphabet Soup Type Founders.

MyFonts Creative Characters Newsletter

I feel very honored that MyFonts chose me as the subject of their January 2011 Creative Characters Newsletter. It took the form of an interview, and in it I’ve answered a lot of questions, probably at greater length than I have in the past. So if you’re curious as to what makes me tick, set aside 10 or 15 minutes and read this interview. If you still have any questions, I’ll entertain them here!

All you information hounds can also check out the new “Interviews & Articles” page I’ve just set up on my website, where I’ve posted other interviews, articles, PDFs, etc., that I’ve done in the past. Now go write that report!