RTF Stern: The Meeting of Digital and Hot Metal Type
A new release from the never-boring P22 type foundry lays claim to being the first time a font has been made available simultaneously in both digital and metal formats, a detail of which is shown above. RTF Stern takes its name from the late printer Christopher Stern, and is an upright italic intended for such uses as poetry settings.
The font is the latest from Jim Rimmer, a Vancouver-based typographer and printer with more than half a century of experience. The digital version is available in four non-pro versions, in TrueType and PostScript formats, for those using applications that don't support OpenType. But most of us employ QuarkXPress or Adobe Creative Suite applications and will instead opt for the OpenType Pro version, which features Stern Aldine, Regular, Tall Caps and Small Caps.
Its worth checking out the examples of Stern on the P22 site. And if you have a few minutes available for recreation, visit the Type is Art site, where you can manipulate bits of the Stern font to create your own graphical constructions, or browse the gallery of earlier creations. Finally, it seems that a documentary movie is being made about the creation of Stern, with a trailer currently available for viewing.
Hats off once again to P22 for its ability to not simply crank out new faces but build projects around them that breath new life into the realm of typography.
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