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Filmotype Havana

Filmotype Havana™

by Filmotype
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Filmotype Havana Font Family was designed by Charles Gibbons and published by Filmotype. Filmotype Havana contains 1 styles.

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About Filmotype Havana Font Family


Filmotype Havana was among the company’s earliest connecting brush-lettered casuals and was introduced by Filmotype in 1955 as a smoother, condensed weight of its popular cousin

Horizon

. Filmotype Havana was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character complement, automatic fractionals, ordinals, and a wonderful assortment of alternate characters and ligatures to create a genuine connecting hand-painted look in dynamic OpenType format.

Designers: Charles Gibbons

Publisher: Filmotype

Foundry: Filmotype

Design Owner: Filmotype

MyFonts debut: Feb 8, 2012

Filmotype Havana™ 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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