Veer presents new typography collections with Agency 26 and Foundry Filmotype

Veer now offers the new and exclusive Agency 26 font collection, as well as font styles from the Filmotype-Foundry and several other leading designers.

The new Agency 26 collection includes ten new font families and 23 font styles, which are exclusively being offered by Veer. The collection is heavily inspired by the massive woodblock letters from 19th century USA and offers a modern version of the historical font style’s traditional presentation, including a complete Western European set of characters, alternative dictionaries, small letters and other options, which were not included in the historical equivalent.

Brian Jaramillo designs all of the Agency 26 font styles. He has been creating fonts for ten years, which he had been primarily using for his own individual projects. The visual language of the surf and skater industry, as well as his childhood, when he used to draw band logos in notebooks, inspires him.

Older typography designs by Brian Jaramillo for the VersusTwin-Foundry are featured in the Umbrella collection by Veer. Furthermore, Brian Jaramillo is the driving force behind the Lettercult Blog, which discusses the art of typography. The Veer creative team have produced an animation short to celebrate Agency 26’s introduction to the company.

On top of that, Veer welcomes the Foundry Filmotype, whose font styles resemble 1950s and ‘60s USA designs.

On the crossroads between lead typesetting and the digital revolution, the original Filmotype collection encompasses several hundred font styles, which had been available to designers for the development of fonts on 5cm film strips. Filmotype were the first to develop a manual collotype machine that made it possible to create headlines and adverts thanks to a photochemical development process, thus contributing to the revolution of advertising layouts and advertising typography.

In 2006, Stuart Sandler and Font Diner rejuvenated the Filmotype brand with the intention of digitalising the historic collection under perfect conditions, making it accessible for creative minds today. Their retro design embraces the Filmotype font style gallery on Veer.com. Furthermore, many brush scripts and fonts in a condensed gothic style are also available, such as Filmotype Zanzibar and Filmotype Macbeth.

The original designs were modernised through the exhausting addition of international signs and symbols, automatic fractions, ordinal numbers and a set of automatically changing, contextual-sensitive letters and ligatures.

“Agency 26 is an entertaining font collection, which is reminiscent of the times featuring large format prints and ‘Wanted-Posters’ with wood lettering’, says Joe Newton, product manager for typography at Veer’s. “The font styles are distinguished by many imaginative details such as alternative thicknesses, small letters and ornaments, which are perfect for creating worn and weathered designs of vintage leather prints or help lending a rustic charm to food packaging and lettering.”

Many more fonts are available on the Veer website – some examples and inspirations from the Veer fonts are available here on GoSee.