About this typeface:
Designed for outlines. Softmachine is an OpenType font designed to facilitate an outline stroke that is even in thickness and smoothly curved, avoiding hot spots and pointy artefacts. It does this by the shape, spacing and kerning of letters, and by using the Contextual Alternates feature to control adjacent glyph combinations. Also included: an alternate stylistic set.
Nick Shinn has lived in Toronto since 1976. During the 1980s he was an art director and creative director at a number of advertising agencies. He went digital in 1989 and started Shinn Design, specializing in publication design.
Since 1980 he has designed over 20 type families for a variety of publishers. In 1999 he went into the font business full time, launching Shinntype to publish and market his fonts worldwide.
Shinn’s eclectic type designs run the gamut from revivals to experimental work exploiting new technology, and are used in everything from packaging and advertising to internet, book, magazine, and newspaper publishing around the world. He has created dozens of retail fonts, including the casual classic Fontesque, the unicase-monowidth “concrete poetry” face Panoptica, and the OpenType script Handsome Pro. In 2001 he was commissioned to design the Richler commemorative typeface. He is currently developing a suite of typefaces for international use, with Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets.
Shinn has written for magazines including Applied Arts, Druk, Eye, Graphic Exchange, and Typographic, has spoken at the ATypI, TypeCon and Graphika conferences, and taught at Seneca College and York University in Toronto. From 2002 to 2006 he served as a board member of the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), which puts on the international conference TypeCon every year, and brought it to Toronto in 2002.
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Softmachine
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