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MyFonts’ review: Rimmer Type Foundry is the label of Canadian type designer Jim Rimmer. He’s that rarity, a master of both the traditional and the modern methods of making type. For his Pie Tree Press in Vancouver, Jim cut the metal punches the old way for his type designs – Albertan (text family), Alexander Quill (jaunty, bold, Germanic), Fellowship (fine calligraphy) and Lancelot (delicate savagery!) – later refashioning them from Bézier curves on his Macintosh computer. Other highlights are: Cadmus, based on similar Greek inscriptions as Lithos, to which it’ll make a refreshing alternative; Poster Paint, a quirky cartoony font; and Credo, an honest-to-goodness humanist sans-serif.

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Biography

Rimmer Type Foundry brings together the metal type founding knowledge and the hand skills – many years as a lettering artist – of Jim Rimmer, and makes of them something useable in the digital font world. The mechanical aspects of metal type, its dimensions, side-bearings and point designations, blend hand-in-glove with the metrics or parameters of the digital letterform. The foundry leans in the direction of traditional type forms but does address the need to offer more contemporary type styles. Type outlines originated as careful renderings in Ikarus directly from hand-drawn pencil art. The new 2006 releases of the Rimmer digital fonts are offered in TrueType, PostScript and now OpenType for the widest range of possible usage.

Mr Rimmer says of this collection: “Even after working with letters in a number of forms, for so many years, it has been a surprise to me just how much work it has taken to produce even a modest selection of typefaces as those offered in this catalogue. I have enjoyed the entire process, which to me was a new one, even though I became involved with a local font company in the very early days of computer type in Vancouver. What makes this a new adventure, aside from the realization that I needed to become literate in the mysteries of the little beige box, is that these were to be my typefaces, with the results dependent on me, regarding the finish of the type outlines.

“I am happy to be able to offer faces that are as new as a few months, and some that have slept in my flat file for a couple of decades or more. The Credo family of types is my first serious and complete attempt at a sans face. Albertan, in this form, is how I intended it to look when I first hand-engraved it as a letterpress type for my private press in 1980. I hope that you will find something you like, and can use in this selection. I had a great time doing them, and there are more to come.”

Volume Discounts Available

Save money by purchasing multiple Rimmer Type Foundry packages at the same time. The more packages you purchase, the better your discount:

Note: volume discounts do not apply to packages that are further discounted under limited-time promotions.

Related Links

 • MyFonts Creative Characters: P22
 • Simon Fraser Univesisty: AQ magazine: A treasure trove of typography, The Jim Rimmer Collection by Eric Swanick

Further Details

325 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14222
USA

Phone (toll free): 800 722 5080
Phone: 716 885 4490
Fax: 716 885 4482

Web site: http://www.p22.com/rtf

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