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MyFonts’ review: The Storm foundry is the amazing work from the flowing hand of Czech designer Frantisek Storm. His serious side includes revivals of three European greats – Baskerville of England, Jannon of France and Walbaum of Germany – along with his collaborations with Czech masters Jan Solpera and Josef Tyfa. Biblon, Lexon, Andulka and Serapion show off a daring-yet-serious streak, while Juvenis, Rondka, Cobra show a lighter touch. Metron, Etelka and Teuton draw on central European design themes to point in yet another direction: simple and clear. Elegant blackletter and copperplate scripts and exquisite ornaments round off the collection. Storm is adept with the OpenType format, so the fonts contain large character sets.

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Biography

Frantisek Storm founded the Storm Type Foundry in Prague in 1993 with the aim of restoring the values of classical typography for the benefit of digital technologies. We started by drawing alphabets which could be used in book printing, then we proceeded to alphabets for film- and photosetting and nowadays, in the era of computers, we use the experience we have gained to make digital type faces more human.

When digitizing original Czech type faces we cooperate with Otakar Karlas, Jan Solpera and Josef Tyfa. All of them are experienced Czech designers. We are convinced that such teamwork is a guarantee of the permanence of the artistic value of our typefaces.

Storm fonts include full character sets for Central Europe, as well as the usual Latin 1 Western European set. (Central European languages supported include Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Albanian, Romanian, Slovak, and Slovenian.) For compatibility with old applications, MyFonts.com can supply CE-only fonts to customers who purchase the regular fonts.

Related Links

 • Prague Post: Frantisek Storm's devotion to his craft is changing the face of Central European typography
 • Visual Arts Trends: Typedesign.CE, by Adam Twardoch

Further Details

Storm Type Foundry
Spalova 23/206
Prague
Czech Republic

Phone: +420 2 3333 7511
Fax: +420 2 3333 7890

Web site: http://www.stormtype.com/

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