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Filmotype Glenlake

Filmotype Glenlake™

by Filmotype
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Filmotype Glenlake Font Family was designed by Mark Simonson and published by Filmotype. Filmotype Glenlake contains 1 styles.

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About Filmotype Glenlake Font Family


Initially designed and released in 1955, this Gothic Sans Serif was remastered and expanded with exacting precision and includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractionals, ordinals, an all CAPS setting, and a suite of alternates in dynamic OpenType format. Having disappeared from graphic design history, Filmotype Glenlake reappeared in 1994’s “Ed Wood” with a starring role in the opening credits. The font however was initially named after a lake north of Chicago near the home of Filmotype’s founders Al and Bea Friedman.

Designers: Mark Simonson

Publisher: Filmotype

Foundry: Filmotype

Design Owner: Filmotype

MyFonts debut: Jun 26, 2010

Filmotype Glenlake™ 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).