Filmotype LaSalle Font

Font Id

19279

Font Name

Filmotype LaSalle Font

Font Format

OpenType Mac/Win

Font Family

Filmotype LaSalleFilmotype LaSalle

Glyphs

540

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2008 by Font Diner Inc. All rights reserved. Filmotype is a trademark of Font Diner Inc.

Price

$29.00

Description

Among the very first handwritten script fonts offered by Filmotype in the beginning of the 1950s, Filmotype LaSalle was designed by Ray Baker, a former Lettering Inc employee at the time who named the face after LaSalle street in downtown Chicago.
Filmotype LaSalle was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractionals, ordinals, and a very large set of alternate characters and ligatures to allow flawless typesetting in dynamic OpenType format.

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OpenType

Standard, Superscript, Stylistic Set 01, Scientific Inferiors, Stylistic Alternates, Ordinals, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Contextual Alternates, Access All Alternates

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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!

Posted on

Jul 24, 2012

Product Ranking

17903

Highest Rank Achieved

127

Licensing available

Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App & ePub