Canada Type has four new releases this week.

Canada Type has four new releases this week. One, Neil Bold, is a revival of a wonderful old Typositor face, originally designed in 1966 by Wayne Stettler; Sol Pro is a reworking of that classic science-fiction favorite, originally designed by Marty Goldstein and C.B. Smith in 1973, and the other two – Slinger and Marvin – are original designs.

Patrick Griffin’s revival of Neil Bold greatly expands on the film version, with the additions of small caps, various biform styles, and much-expanded language support (all Latin-based tongues, plus Cyrillic and Greek alphabets). In the late ’60s and early ’70s, it was a favorite for jazz album packaging and science fiction novels; this new digital version’s novelty and larger character set make it useable for many other display uses.

Patrick Griffin and Kevin Allan King worked together on Slinger, a narrow Egyptian inspired by the wood types popular in the old west. The designers say their inspiration came from the following passage in a dime western:

Rosalinda gave a low scream of horror as she saw the Rio Kid and her cousin knee rein their mounts out of the line and rake their flanks with rowels, galloping off up the grade in a cloud of alkali dust until a bend of the road hid them from the sheriff’s posse. The masked gunman came to a standing position on the eroded ledge of rock, his serape fluttering about him. “You weel ride back to Santa Barbara weethout stopping once or looking back, Senor Shereeff!” he commanded. “The firs’ hombre who pools a gon weel die, sabe usted? Now, andale!”

Marvin – named after the Loony Tunes martian – is a casual, cartoon-inspired sans perfect for children’s books and other display uses where fun and humor need to be emphasized. More than a dozen decorative ligatures and several alternates make it especially flexible and fun to typeset.

Finally, Sol Pro is a smooth, geometric sans, flavored with equal parts science fiction and 1970s funk. It’s been greatly expanded from the 1973 original with a wide variety of forms as shown above; the new character set is huge and makes this face far more useful than it has ever been previously.

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Four New Releases from Canada Type