{"id":2167,"date":"2012-07-08T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T06:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\/blog\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2016-03-06T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:12:40","slug":"the-dyna-fonts-winners-at-applied-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"The Dyna-Fonts Winners at Applied Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Canada's Visual Communication Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.appliedartsmag.com\/current_issue.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2171\" title=\"Applied Arts\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/logo.gif\" width=\"590\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The judges at this year&#8217;s Applied Arts Design Competition, in their first ever Typeface Design category, selected both Dynascript and Dynatype as winners. They were selected as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appliedartsmag.com\/winners_details.php?id=421&amp;headerName=h_awards_winners_design&amp;clip=2&amp;year=2012&amp;searchYear=&amp;group=&amp;category=&amp;searchkw=\" target=\"_blank\">The Dyna-Fonts<\/a>\u2014a typeface family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dyna-Fonts.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2176\" title=\"The Dyna-Fonts\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dyna-Fonts.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dyna-Fonts.png 1000w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dyna-Fonts-546x600.png 546w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dyna-Fonts-933x1024.png 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very proud of these fonts, and am pleased that they&#8217;ve begun to get the recognition I think they deserve. They work extremely well both together and separately, and in both display and in smaller settings, as you can see from the comparison below (click to enlarge).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dyna-Fonts-Comparison.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2179\" title=\"Dyna-Fonts-Comparison\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dyna-Fonts-Comparison.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dyna-Fonts-Comparison.png 1000w, http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dyna-Fonts-Comparison-600x363.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve begun to make both Dynascript and Dynatype available together at a reduced price. They can be found under the name\u00a0&#8220;The Dyna-Font Collection&#8221; which can be purchased from <strong><a title=\"The Dyna-Font Collection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\/dynascript-options\" target=\"_blank\">my Website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dyna-Fonts are now following in the footsteps of some of my other recent fonts that have garnered industry acclaim\u2014most notably <a title=\"Deliscript\" href=\"http:\/\/michaeldoret.com\/deliscript\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Deliscript<\/strong><\/a>, which was lauded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=619\" target=\"_blank\">Type Directors Club<\/a>\u00a0in their <a href=\"http:\/\/tdc.org\/tdc2-2010-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">TDC\u00b2 2010<\/a>\u00a0competition\u00a0and also in 2011 by CA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commarts.com\/annuals\/2011-Typography\/winners\" target=\"_blank\">Typography Annual 1<\/a>, (the page excerpt of which can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\/AlphabetSoup\/DeliscriptCA.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>), and \u00a0<strong>Steinweiss Script<\/strong>\u2014also recognized in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commarts.com\/annuals\/2012-Typography\/winners\" target=\"_blank\">Typography Annual 2<\/a>, (the page excerpt of which can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\/AlphabetSoup\/SteinweissCA.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>). After being named a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/newsletters\/rs\/200805.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rising Star<\/a>&#8221; <strong>Metroscript<\/strong> became &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/newsletters\/sp\/200901.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyFonts\u2019 Brush Script Font of the Year<\/a>&#8221; and was subsequently named as\u00a0#5 in\u00a0<em>Smashing Magazine\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2009\/04\/15\/30-brilliant-typefaces-for-corporate-design\/\" target=\"_blank\">30 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design<\/a>\u201c. The magazine went on to say about <strong>Metroscript<\/strong>: &#8220;lettering artist Michael Doret has adapted his trademark hand-lettering style to the computer, creating one of the most sophisticated suites of script fonts on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judges at this year&#8217;s Applied Arts Design Competition, in their first ever Typeface Design category, selected both Dynascript and Dynatype as winners. They were selected as The Dyna-Fonts\u2014a typeface family. I&#8217;m very proud of these fonts, and am pleased that they&#8217;ve begun to get the recognition I think they deserve. They work extremely well both together and separately, and in both display and in smaller settings, as you can see from the comparison below (click to enlarge). I&#8217;ve begun to make both Dynascript and Dynatype available together at a reduced price. They can be found under the name\u00a0&#8220;The Dyna-Font Collection&#8221; which can be purchased from my Website. 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