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Filmotype Major

Filmotype Major™

by Filmotype
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Filmotype Major Font Family was designed by Rian Hughes and published by Filmotype. Filmotype Major contains 1 styles. More about this family
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About Filmotype Major Font Family


Filmotype Major is one of the hallmarks of the Free Style faces of the Filmotype Library. This bouncy sans serif was originally introduced in the early 1950s and captures the essence of mid-century casual playfulness. Its most popular use can be seen as the titling font for the popular children's book by Dr. Seuss entitled One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish released in 1960. Filmotype Major was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character compliment, automatic ligature combinations, ordinals, fractionals, and a host of alternate characters in dynamic OpenType format.

Designers: Rian Hughes

Publisher: Filmotype

Foundry: Filmotype

Design Owner: Filmotype

MyFonts debut: May 15, 2012

Filmotype Major™ 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).