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Filmotype Prima

Filmotype Prima™

by Filmotype
Individual Styles from $29.00
Filmotype Prima Font Family was designed by Rebecca Alaccari, Patrick Griffin and published by Filmotype. Filmotype Prima contains 1 styles. More about this family
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About Filmotype Prima Font Family


Initially offered in 1955, Filmotype Prima was one of Filmotype's earliest Free Style typefaces based on popular informal hand-painted lettering styles of sho-card lettering artists of the era. Remastered and expanded with exacting precision from the original filmstrips, Filmotype Prima includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractionals, ordinals, and a suite of alternates in dynamic OpenType format.

Designers: Rebecca Alaccari, Patrick Griffin

Publisher: Filmotype

Foundry: Filmotype

Design Owner: Filmotype

MyFonts debut: Jul 8, 2011

Filmotype Prima™ 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).