Martin Wenzel has just released a highly typographic handwritten family for professional use: FF Duper. This typeface is a reaction to the projects he concentrated on before: text families, text families, and text families. The time was ripe for something casual, a typeface with a home-madetouch but just as complete and rich in features and character set aseveryone would expect from an OpenType font family. Martin Wenzel’s original idea from 1998 evolved into a kind of informal FF Profile.
Download this free wallpaper, showing FF Duper as the organic typeface that it is, on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fontfont/4029214772/
Preliminary versions of the typeface have already been successful ineducation and school projects, but there are surely more areas where FFDuper’s friendly personality fits in.
The special extra: All weights contain three versions of each glyphthat are used in succession, treating vowels and consonants separatelyand recognizing even spaces between words for a lively and hand-madeappearance of the typed text via an OpenType loop. This makes forindividual results each and every time you type. In the end, FF Duperbecame an extensive type family, that can even be used to set bodytext. The video below gives not just an impression of howtime-consuming type design is, but also demonstrates how a modernOpenType font family is created.
FF Duperconsists of Regular, Bold, Regular Italic, and Bold Italic, andsupports 40 languages (FF Duper Pro supports 64), has several figuresets and fractions and includes alternative forms for a, g, and y aswell as a set of arrows, bullets, and ornaments. It simply is the best font since sliced bread.
