{"id":2885,"date":"2013-06-03T15:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\/blog\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2016-03-12T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T23:26:43","slug":"new-font-release-dark-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"New Font Release: Dark Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAlphabet Soup Type Founders and Michael Doret are proud to announce the Release of Dark Angel<\/strong>, a \u201cblackletter\/hybrid\u201d font.
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\nDark Angel is the first completely new take in decades on the traditional \u201cblackletter\u201d font style. This font had its genesis years ago when the style was born in a sktech Michael created of a new logo for the California Angels baseball team (renamed shortly thereafter the Anaheim Angels). That Angels logo was never completed, but its rough sketch rose from the dead and become the basis for this brand new font design\u2014and was also the source for the name. Below you can compare the forms from that original logo pencil and the corresponding letters from the new font. Many accomodations had to be made to keep these forms working together as a font but, as much as possible, the spirit of that original character design has been kept.
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\nIt\u2019s kind of blackletter in feel, but as a display font it\u2019s so much more. It is far more legible than most \u201cOld English\u201d or \u201cGothic Script\u201d styles, and incorporates many features never before seen in them, such as swashes, tails and a plethora of ligatures.
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\nType purists may be critical of the lack of adherence to traditional forms, but this font should be seen only as \u201cin the spirit of\u201d blackletter, and attempting to create something that hasn\u2019t been seen or done before\u2014something that feels traditional, yet at the same time fresh and unexpected.
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\nDark Angel can be purchased in its regular solid form, or as Dark Angel Underlight\u2014a \u201chandtooled\u201d font. When these two fonts are purchased together as a Family package, included will be a third font\u2014Dark Angel Highlight. With this font layered over the basic font, two\u2013color typesetting will be created when the highlight and the base font are assigned two different colors.
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\nWith Stylistic Alternates you can go either \u201cPlain\u201d or \u201cFancy\u201d, changing the look of your copy to suit your needs. Compare the two samples below. Some characters have multiple alternates.
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\nAnd furthermore\u2026
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\nUtilizing Dark Angel\u2019s various features, words can be put together to build creative configurations, wordmarks and \u201cLogos\u201d. The free-standing underlines you see in some of the examples shown here were set independantly and then manually moved into position.
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\nDark Angel has enough language support to make the builders of Babel envious\u2014its 1,163 glyphs can be used to set copy in 59 different languages. From A to Z: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bemba, Bosnian, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Ganda, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kalaallisut, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Lithuanian, Luo, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokm\u00e5l, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Sango, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Turkish, Welsh, and last (but not least) Zulu.
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\n\u2013For more detailed information download The Dark Angel Manual<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0PDF (1.1 MB).
\n\u2013Dark Angel<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0Alphabet Soup<\/a>
\n\u2013Dark Angel Design and Art: Michael Doret\/Alphabet Soup Type Founders<\/a>
\n\u2013Dark Angel OpenType Programming:Patrick Griffin\/CanadaType<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alphabet Soup Type Founders and Michael Doret are proud to announce the Release of Dark Angel, a \u201cblackletter\/hybrid\u201d font. Dark Angel is the first completely new take in decades on the traditional \u201cblackletter\u201d font style. This font had its genesis years ago when the style was born in a sktech Michael created of a new logo for the California Angels baseball team (renamed shortly thereafter the Anaheim Angels). That Angels logo was never completed, but its rough sketch rose from the dead and become the basis for this brand new font design\u2014and was also the source for the name. Below you can compare the forms from that original logo pencil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[556,557,555,574,565,550,569,570,572,101,576,558,559,566,560,563,191,197,573,575,561,257,568,577,571,567,545,330,562,470,484,564],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-notes","tag-1800s","tag-1920s","tag-19th-century","tag-angel","tag-beer","tag-blackletter","tag-bold","tag-christmas","tag-devil","tag-display","tag-formal","tag-fraktur","tag-german","tag-gothic","tag-headline","tag-heavy","tag-lettering","tag-logo","tag-lucifer","tag-masthead","tag-ornamental","tag-poster","tag-retro","tag-sans-serif","tag-satan","tag-swash","tag-tattoo","tag-theater","tag-titles","tag-vampire","tag-vintage","tag-zip-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}