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Filmotype Royal

Filmotype Royal™

by Filmotype
Individual Styles from $29.00
Complete family of 5 fonts: $69.00
Filmotype Royal Font Family was designed by Charles Gibbons and published by Filmotype. Filmotype Royal contains 5 styles and family package options. More about this family
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About Filmotype Royal Font Family


Originally released in the early-mid 1960s, Filmotype developed and released Royal as one of its earliest Transitional Serif typefaces inspired by lettering used on steam-era passenger train coaches. Inspired by Royal’s aesthetic, type designer Charles Gibbons expanded and developed a full range of styles based on exploring a variety of useful width variations. While it had been Filmotype’s practice to generate width variant typefaces using camera stretching techniques, Gibbons instead mastered each alphabet at its native width to create exceptional typesetting throughout the family. The Filmotype Royal typeface was developed from the original font filmstrips and each additional weight was created as an inspired original; each Royal family member includes a full international character complement, automatic fractionals, ordinals, and a host of alternate characters in dynamic OpenType format.

Designers: Charles Gibbons

Publisher: Filmotype

Foundry: Filmotype

Design Owner: Filmotype

MyFonts debut: Sep 27, 2012

Filmotype Royal™ 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).