Filmotype Kentucky was released in 1955 as a more condensed, italic version of its first connecting script face, Filmotype Harmony, originally designed by Ray Baker. Filmotype regularly created derivative styles and weights of its typefaces as its customers requested new styles for their typesetting work, with Filmotype Hamlet representing a condensed, upright script variant of Filmotype Kentucky.
Filmotype Kingston was released in the early to mid-1950s as part of its collection of hand-lettered script styles. Kingston gained wildly popular use with many Filmotype owners as the first true italic version of its connecting script face, Filmotype Harmony.
The Filmotype Harmony Family was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractions, ordinals, and a large set of automatic alternate contextual characters and ligatures to allow flawless typesetting in dynamic OpenType format.About the designer:
Finding itself securely at the historical crossroads between lead type and the computer revolution, the Filmotype library, developed in the 1950s and 1960s, grew to encompass several hundred fonts available to designers, providing typeface designs on 2-inch filmstrips. Filmotype initially manufactured a manual phototype machine enabling headline and display typesetting utilizing a photochemical development process, helping to revolutionize the process of advertising layout and lettering.
In 2006, Stuart Sandler and Font Diner revived the Filmotype marque, intending to create high-quality digitizations of this historic collection, adapted for the modern age.
This package contains:
Filmotype Kentucky, Filmotype Kingston, Filmotype Harmony and Filmotype Hamlet
Copyright © Filmotype Harmony, Filmotype Hamlet, Filmotype Kingston and Filmotype Kentucky are trademarks of Font Diner, Inc DBA Filmotype
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