May 31, 2005

Cézanne is alive!

The innovative font foundry P22 has announced Cézanne Pro, an improved version of its popular Cézanne font. Cézanne Pro makes use of powerful OpenType features: Letter shapes change randomly, making the font look less homogenous. A text written in Cézanne Pro will give the human eye the illusion to be actually hand written. This shows how far typography has developed in the past couple of years, following the desktop revolution. Unfortunately, most of modern typographic features are still limted to print technologies, since the web has not found a solution yet for practical typographic freedom.

OpenType is a technology standard founded by Adobe, Microsoft and Montotype. So far, only Adobe Software such as InDesign makes use of OpenType, whereas Quark Xpress is still ignoring its powerful typographic features.

Posted by Henning von Vogelsang at 06:08 AM | Comments (0)