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Filmotype Athens

Filmotype Athens™

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Filmotype Athens Font Family was designed by Patrick Griffin and published by Filmotype. Filmotype Athens contains 1 styles.

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About Filmotype Athens Font Family


Introduced by Filmotype in 1955, Filmotype Athens was among Filmotype’s first condensed handlettered sho-card brush script faces for narrow applications where economy and style were paramount to the design while retaining legibility and easy readability. Filmotype Athens developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractionals, ordinals, and a host of alternate characters in dynamic OpenType format.

Designers: Patrick Griffin

Publisher: Filmotype

Foundry: Filmotype

Design Owner: Filmotype

MyFonts debut: Sep 10, 2014

Filmotype Athens™ is a trademark of Font Diner Inc DBA Filmotype.

About Filmotype

Originally sold in the 1950s, the Filmotype introduced by its founders Allan and Beatrice Friedman was a simple manually operated photo typesetting machine (the iMac of the 1950s) and it used 2-inch filmstrips with over 500 amazing display alphabets so the user could set headlines on photo paper or film. Filmotype eventually went on to become Alphatype until the Mac came along in 1984 and POOF! No more photo typesetting! In 2006, the Font Diner acquired this amazing photo film alphabet collection and continues to digitize and releasing these wonderful gems of 1950s lettering as digital fonts! To learn more about the history of this amazing company, a companion book was written and released in 2009. It's called Filmotype: By the Letter - An Illustrated History and at over 130 pages, this book will be sure to become a cherished keepsake in your design bookshelf and can be purchased at (http://www.fontbros.com/merchandise.php).

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