New Typeface Designs – Freight Big and Freight Display – Released by Phil´s Fonts and GarageFonts
Phil´s Fonts and GarageFonts are pleased to announce the release of Joshua Darden´s new typeface designs, Freight Big and Freight Display. Big and Display are complimentary titling additions to Freight Text, Sans and Micro, which were released in June 2005.
Freight Big is well suited for magazine and newspaper section heads, large headlines and book covers. The delicacy of the hairline strokes provides a striking contrast when set at larger sizes. Freight Big tells readers that the story really is big.
Freight Display is a workhorse for headlines, subheads and running heads. The warmer proportions and large lowercase give balance for an easy read. Beautiful headlines are back in style with Freight Display.
Freight Big and Display bring a cleanliness and order to all of your large type needs.
Freight is a practical attempt to unify Johann Michael Fleischmann and Stanley Morison’s signature text types. Although these historical faces appeared more than 150 years apart, they are remarkably similar in their embrace of the Dutch traits of economy, glister and crunch. Freight Text, Sans, Micro, Big and Display are the result of a seven-year quest to describe these virtues thru a range of weights and morphologies, suitable for use across a variety of modern media.
From technical manuals to university catalogues, from train schedules to cookbook recipes, from newspaper and magazine headlines to book covers, Freight is designed to excel anywhere style & sturdiness are required. The Freight family includes a Text series for extended reading in periodicals and data intensive documents. Freight Sans works well for text, display and way-finding. Freight Micro can be used for inclement text conditions onscreen and in print. (We think it looks pretty spiffy set big, too!) Freight Big is best for large headlines and mastheads. Freight Display brings cleanliness and order to everyday use of headline type in print and onscreen.
Each series features an extensive character set comprising roman, italic, small caps, italic small caps, along with old style and tabular figures, in five precisely tuned weights – light, book, medium, bold and black.
Freight can be sampled and purchased at www.garagefonts.com and www.philsfonts.com
Joshua Darden is a typeface designer in Brooklyn, NY. For more than a decade, he has continuously designed and developed custom typefaces and lettering for publications, corporations and private clients. His work encompasses designs for multiple languages and writing systems, with a focus on fonts for specific media, from digital screens to high-speed presses. As an avid collector of books and periodicals, he is a keen observer of the 20th century typographic culture. He considers it an imperative to design typefaces that are beautiful and hard working.
GarageFonts was established in 1993 primarily as a vehicle to distribute some of the first typeface designs created for Raygun magazine. From the beginning, GarageFonts has been on the cutting edge of new typeface design, helping to change a once tiresome selection of typefaces into a new world of visual excitement. What started as a small library of trend setting designs has now grown to a varied collection of original, accessible text and display typefaces. GarageFonts has something for everyone.
Phil’s Fonts has been in the type business for over 25 years. The company evolved from one of the most well known and respected photolettering studios in the typesetting industry, Phil’s Photo. Since 1990 Phil’s Fonts has been distributing fonts from large and small foundries. The current selection offers over 35,000 fonts from 75 type foundries worldwide. Phil’s Fonts also specializes in creating custom typeface designs to your specs. For corporate identity, new products, or to help solve licensing issues, Phil’s can create something new for you.
