{"id":1693,"date":"2012-02-10T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2016-03-12T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T23:49:13","slug":"new-font-dynatype-just-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"New Font: Dynatype Just Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Alphabet Soup is proud to announce the release of Dynatype\u2014the second of its \u201cDyna-Fonts\u201d. Whereas\u00a0Dynascript<\/a>\u00a0was primarily a connecting script font with a non-connecting italic alternate style,\u00a0Dynatype<\/strong>\u00a0is first and foremost an upright, non-connecting font with an upright, connecting alternate component.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Suddenly\u2026it\u2019s the World of Tomorrow!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0With the push of a button Dynatype will automate your typesetting experience. Dynatype is actually\u00a02-Fonts-In-1<\/strong>:\u00a0without switching fonts you will be able to instantly change from Dynatype\u2019s \u201cregular\u201d default style to its alternate connecting version with the simple push of a button.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To some these fonts may be reminiscent of various mid-century neon signage, and of sign writing, Speedball alphabets and even baseball scripts. The design of the Dyna-fonts also takes some cues from a historical typographic curiosity that began in Germany in the \u201820s and which lasted into the \u201860s\u2014when Photo-Lettering gave it the name \u201cZip-Top\u201d. Basically it was believed to be the wave of the future\u2014that by weighting an alphabet heavier in its top half, one could increase legibility and reading speed. The jury\u2019s still out on whether or not there\u2019s any validity to this notion, but hopefully you\u2019ll agree that in the context of this design, the heavier weighting at the top of the letters helps to create some uniquely pleasing forms, and two unusual fonts.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Typesetters across the planet will be able to set copy in their language of choice.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dynatype\u2019s 677 glyphs can be used to set copy in: Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kalaallisut, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Norwegian Bokm\u00e5l, Norwegian Nynorsk, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh\u2014and of course English. Sorry! Languages of the Lunar Colonies not yet supported.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Purchase Dynatype on Alphabet Soup\u00a0HERE<\/a>.
\nDownload the Dynatype Manual\u00a0HERE<\/a>
\nDynatype Design and Art: Michael Doret
\nDynatype OpenType Programming: Patrick Griffin\/Canada Type<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Alphabet Soup is proud to announce the release of Dynatype\u2014the second of its \u201cDyna-Fonts\u201d. Whereas\u00a0Dynascript\u00a0was primarily a connecting script font with a non-connecting italic alternate style,\u00a0Dynatype\u00a0is first and foremost an upright, non-connecting font with an upright, connecting alternate component. “Suddenly\u2026it\u2019s the World of Tomorrow!\u201d\u00a0With the push of a button Dynatype will automate your typesetting experience. Dynatype is actually\u00a02-Fonts-In-1:\u00a0without switching fonts you will be able to instantly change from Dynatype\u2019s \u201cregular\u201d default style to its alternate connecting version with the simple push of a button. To some these fonts may be reminiscent of various mid-century neon signage, and of sign writing, Speedball alphabets and even baseball scripts. The design of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}