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[0] Add/View Comments (10 views) | [0] Trackbacks [0] PingbacksNew Font - Broadley
Yorkshire-born architect and designer C. F. A. Voysey was one of the preeminent figures of the later period of the Arts and Crafts movement. He was England's answer to his more famous American contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright. Voysey's designs were ambitious and comprehensive and included not only basic architecture, but also interior design, decoration and furniture. Voysey's work was reminiscent of the design work of William Morris. He is particularly remembered for his unique fabric and wallpaper designs which echo the work of Walter Crane.
His houses featured white rough rendered walls with horizontal ribbon windows and huge pitched roofs, and are recognized for their simplicity, originality and total abandonment of historical tradition. Like Wright he played a major role in defining the basics of what would become the Modern Movement in architecture. Voysey designed a number of notable homes, including Spade House for author and futurist H. G. Wells. Perhaps his most famous design was Broad Lys or Broadley on Lake Windermere where the movie The French Lieutenant's Woman was filmed.
Voysey did detailed plans and elevations of all of his houses, and labelled them in a unique hand lettered style which we have preserved and turned into a new font called Broadley. The font was developed from lettering samples on several of his plans and includes features typical of arts and crafts period lettering such as nesting and joining characters. It has a very special period look and will ultimately be included in our Arts and Crafts font collection. We also hope to eventually release at least one other font based on Voysey's lettering plus a selection of his fabric and wallpaper designs.
You can try out the free demo version of Broadley for either MacOS or Windows. It features a combination of the upper and lower case characters. The full font of Broadley is available on our Ordering Site.
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Discounted Packages on Ebay
Our offerings of selected packages through ebay has had a lot of value as a method of advertising our larger product line and bringing people to the website. As a result we've added some more items to the listings and are rotating the selection from week to week. The benefit of this for you and for some of those who discover us on Ebay get some of our best packages at substantial discounts. Plus the competition of bidding for a good product is kind of fun. To see what we currently have up for auction on Ebay take a look at: EBAY AUCTIONS
New Font - Aventine
It's a very political year so we're releasing a political poster font, Aventine. From time to time we've been asked to work on some political designs for local campaigns. One offshoot of that is that we have developed some poster font designs specifically tailored to the needs of campaign posters, and as we did with Texas Star back in 2002, we're making one of those designs available in our general catalog. Aventine is a very clean, very bold, modern-looking font. It's designed to look like the kind of sans serif fonts you see on political posters all the time, but with a few twists which may be hard to notice by themselves, but which add up to just a tiny bit more of an art deco look than you'd normally expect in a straightforward poster font. If you wonder where the name comes from, it was inspired by the excellent HBO series Rome where, in the final season, the main character entered into a political career with his power base as a captain in the merchant district of Rome called The Aventine. You can try out the free demo version of Aventine for either MacOS or Windows. It features just the characters of the standard set. The full combined set of Groningen is available on our Ordering Site.
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New Font and Art Sampler
Our previous font and art sampler has been a pretty popular item for people wanting to check out our offerings for the first time at a low price. It's now been a couple of years since we released it, so it seemed like time to offer a new sampler put together on the same model.
The 2008 Scriptorium Sampler includes a selection of representative fonts and art. It has includes a set of fonts in their full-release versions and a set of demo versions of recent font releases. The three full fonts included in the package are Aventine, Burnham, Turkey Day and Freebooter. The demo fonts included are Groningen, Gwionbach, Imprimato, Damariscotta, Marfield and Berenicia.
The sampler also includes two art mini-packages. The first is a collection of mermaid images from artists like Pyle, Dulac, Burne-Jones and Pogany. It even includes a couple of sea-themed borders. The second is a collection of images of Arthurian Knights by Howard Pyle which is part of our forthcoming Arthurian Fonts and Art package.
And of course, the best thing about the sampler is that you get all of this for only $9.95. To order the sampler just go to our Online Ordering Section.
April Fools Recap
This year's April Fools page seems to have excited little comment. Perhaps it was too subtle or maybe people were not surprised to see the website translated into Russian and then poorly translated back into a kind of pidgin version of English. Maybe that's not so different from our usual writing style.
To see the page as it appeared yesterday go to Fool 2008.
The April Fools pages here at the Scriptorium are grand tradition. To see some of the past classics click on the links below:
1998 April Fools
1999 April Fools
2000 April Fools
2001 April Fools
2002 April Fools
2003 April Fools
2004 April Fools
2006 April Fools
Hope you find them amusing. 1998 and 2002 were probably the biggest hits - certainly my favorites as well. Nothing is available for 2005 or 2007 because both of them consisted of joke fonts which did horrible things when you tried to use them.
Dave
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