German Type Foundry (GTF) releases Toshna
Toshna is a garaldic typeface design offering three real optical weights. The display weight for titles and headlines is kept very tall, thin and graceful. The book weight for body text is drawn essentially wider, more round with robust, bold details.
Toshna Std (characterset) is distributed by astype and MyFonts.
Toshna (Pro) is available exclusively through by GTF.
The printed specimen book is featuring an extensive article in English and in German about the type designer Herbert Thannhaeuser. The edition is limited to 500 copies.
Order your copy including an additional poster.
http://germantype.com/toshna
http://toshna.germantype.com
13.Mar.2008 10.39pm
It’s a lovely face, very elegant and finished, but you offer no bold and bold italic, and your price is too high for freelancers to purchase by themselves—and they are the taste-makers you want to target. This face occupies an especially crowded field, and competing faces are more complete, more extensive, and better priced.
14.Mar.2008 2.48pm
It’s not THAT outlandishly priced, and not everything needs a bold or bold italic. But that’s just my opinion, and I’m not an art director or typographer...
15.Mar.2008 12.46pm
Actually, every text-use family DOES need at least two weights, with matching italics, in order to attract wide use. Adobe’s new Arno Pro, an obvious competitor in your “look”...just see how complete and developed that family is, and at a much better price! FF Clifford and H-FJ Requiem would be much bigger news by now, used much more extensively, if their foundries had finished their work and had released them with extra weights. This is not a small issue industry-wide.