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Best Typeface for 2008

parachute-fonts.livejournal.co… — PF Centro Pro was the winner of the competition for Original Typeface at the EDAwards 2008, which was held in Stockholm, Sweden. This is a complete set of three related superfamilies (sans, serif & slab) with true italics and support for Latin, Greek & Cyrillic.

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  • VAGDesign, on 06/10/2008, -3/+21Well Done! Bravo to Parachute.
  • til01, on 06/10/2008, -7/+13yea Vag it sure is a greattypeface
  • tsevis, on 06/10/2008, -4/+43According to the jury, “PF Centro Pro is a type system, not just a type family. This large series of 40 fonts with 1519 characters each, is composed of 3 superfamilies (serif, sans and slab), includes true italics and supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. It is an almost ‘invisible’ typeface which has legibility as its main attribute and is ideal for a wide range of design works. It does not attract any unnecessary attention, but rather serves its purpose. A rare case of contemporary type family working across three alphabets, Centro Pro meets an ever-growing demand for such typefaces among pan-European companies and institutions”.

    Congratulations to Parachute for this work and their deserved award.
    • kingfoot, on 06/11/2008, -3/+7i dont get it. its only june. how can we have a best 08 typeface halfway through? shouldnt this be held in december?
      • tsevis, on 06/11/2008, -0/+8It's a quite common practice in all the award organizations to use the current year number even if they - of course - judging last years productions.
        You can see this common practice in ED Award and almost everywhere else.

        I hope it's clear now.
    • azaah, on 06/11/2008, -3/+1hold on - you mentioned that you were a member of parachute fonts team... are you congratulating yourself?
      • tsevis, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6Hi mate!
        I am a designer. I have also designed some typefaces distributed by Parachute Fonts. I am not the owner or the manager of the company.
        I am a colleague and a friend.
        You can follow this link to see for your self:
        http://www.parachute.gr/about.aspx?code=Designers

        Who I am congratulating is Parachute and Panos Vassiliou, who owns the company, manages it, designed this typeface and received this award.

        I hope it's clear now.

        Regards!

  • Overcyn, on 06/10/2008, -59/+7***** all this spammy ***** on digg
    • tsevis, on 06/10/2008, -2/+16Could you, please, define spam?
      Have you had the time to visit the story and the links?
      Have you ever did something big like this?
      Have you ever work for a design project for 1 or 2 years?
      Come on! Digg is full of products, ideas and initiatives. If you don't like them, you can always not digg them.
      But you can not offend other people's work by calling it spam.

    • jpinsonault, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1you must be replying to a post somewhere but hit the wrong reply button, because saying that to the OP makes no sense
      • Kzoo, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1And if you didn't hit the wrong button... nobody forces you to read anything, and just because something doesn't interest you doesn't mean it it's not good for others.
  • til01, on 06/10/2008, -10/+22why is this spam?
    • tsevis, on 06/10/2008, -5/+26Maybe because some diggers are just full of envy for other people's work and success.

    • jpinsonault, on 06/11/2008, -0/+5Everyone should watch Helvetica. It's a good look into the passion that goes into typefacing
    • tonaros, on 06/12/2008, -0/+1There's a reply button for a reason.
  • nickmatsa, on 06/10/2008, -2/+16Each font contains 1519 glyphs? what are you writing with this typeface?
    and how much does it costs?
    • Stephenlk, on 06/10/2008, -3/+16For all of the Centro Pro fonts it costs an upwards of $2500
      • knoxchris, on 06/10/2008, -7/+6Or a few torrent searches away...

        /pirate
      • trevah, on 06/10/2008, -3/+7What's wrong with Times?
        • protiek, on 06/11/2008, -1/+11Clearly a programmer.
        • Lunarbunny, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Eh? Programming I prefer to use a monospace/teletype font. Generally I don't care about the aesthetics either, and if I do then I tend to go with Lucida Console or Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
      • Dracusis, on 06/11/2008, -1/+7What isn't wrong with Times?
      • rgodfrey, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1less a 10% volume discount (I put 'em in the cart).
    • feliks2, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4"
      PRICE
      EUR 625,00 (family)
      EUR 65,00 /weight
      "
  • theosdesign, on 06/10/2008, -5/+15Well done Parachute. This award is good for Greek typographers, like Pano. As for the fools that call that spam, well... maybe they don't know how difficult is to draw a font or as Chari's says they are full of envy.
  • louiebaur, on 06/10/2008, -4/+10That is pretty cool
  • pointofdesign, on 06/10/2008, -3/+7Awesome!
  • greytfriend, on 06/10/2008, -6/+10It's a really beautiful font. As someone who's done a tiny bit of design work, I really appreciate how important a font can be. Also, check out the link to the European Design Conference Awards to see the rest of the winners. There is some really special work to see.
    http://www.ed-awards.com/index.php?option=com_easy ...
  • iMike360, on 06/10/2008, -9/+5Great font, but one thing a don't get is how and where you get fonts.
    • til01, on 06/10/2008, -2/+3you buy the from the company that makes them
      i www.parachute.gr is the company that designed it!
  • TheCarDude, on 06/10/2008, -8/+3sweet font
    • gplpark92, on 06/11/2008, -1/+1Cleartype sucks, nothing looks as good as that naturally
  • oldhick, on 06/10/2008, -6/+3So I can't download it and use it as my Outlook font! Fine, I'll stick with that bs cursive font that annoys the ***** out of everyone! /s
  • Shiftgood, on 06/10/2008, -7/+6STOP using TRAJAN PRO please! Dont be a hack!

    thanks
    • tsevis, on 06/10/2008, -2/+4What's wrong with Trajan Pro, mate?
      Seems that you know something about typography. But I cannot understand the relationship of Trajan Pro with PF Centro?

      • Shiftgood, on 06/10/2008, -0/+13If you are a font spotter, keep an eye out for Trajan Pro. Not sure where you live, but here in the US. its EVERYWHERE.... like... everywhere. In the fridge, on the side of busses, websites... I first noticed it in the movies a month ago when i was watching the previews... 4 .... all 4 movie titles used trajan pro. Sex in the City, Some Narnia movie, one with jackie Chan and jet li... and another... anyways... it seems like its being over used. So i wanted to get that notion out there so people start solving problems more creativity and design as a whole grows....

        kindof like PF Centro... great font.
        • anagoge, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2I can top your annoyance with Trajan, with the annoyance of Helvetica! :)
      • tsevis, on 06/10/2008, -2/+7I see!
        I like the font but I couldn't imagine Trajan Pro could be so famous in the US.
        I am living in Greece, and I haven't visited the US since 2003. I am planning to come this summer for holidays. As a member of Parachute Fonts I would like to see PF Centro everywhere... :-)))

        Regards

      • tian2992, on 06/10/2008, -0/+7You might heard of a certain typeface called "Helvetica"… It is quite scary that is EVERYWHERE… /sarcasm
      • chuckerton, on 06/11/2008, -0/+7This is where I became aware of Trajan abuse:

        http://youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8
  • andrianikara, on 06/10/2008, -7/+1Cool!! =)
  • asskicker32, on 06/10/2008, -5/+9They have some really nice fonts. Thanks for the headsup!
  • Simonft, on 06/10/2008, -16/+2[cough]super nerds[cough]
    jk
  • PicklePower, on 06/10/2008, -1/+33Great, except none of us are gonna get it (legally). The price for the whole set? 653 Euros.

    653 Euros = 1,009.67 U.S. dollars.
    • tsevis, on 06/10/2008, -2/+9You re right, mate.
      But it's the inflation... :-(
      Believe me, the european companies don't like this.
    • Exnie, on 06/11/2008, -3/+5On to the pirate bay!
      • cyberdork, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Yeah sure. You typed that before even trying to search for in on tbp.
    • rgodfrey, on 06/11/2008, -1/+7Actually, you buy the serif, sans and slab families separately. 1615 Euros less 10% volume discount = $2247.40
    • alwilson, on 06/11/2008, -1/+18That's because fonts have spiked to $140 a barrel.
  • macabaret, on 06/10/2008, -5/+71It's pretty sweet, but it's no Comic Sans.
  • JoshDaFink, on 06/10/2008, -11/+1Torrent...?
    • feliks2, on 06/10/2008, -1/+2With the creator right here? Common, thats disrespectful, its not like hes the RIAA or MPAA, I'm sure he actually appreciates money.
    • jpinsonault, on 06/11/2008, -2/+1Do you...really want to torrent fonts? I mean there's a line people shouldn't cross
  • web2pointYo, on 06/10/2008, -7/+11Screw YOU!
    -Myriad
  • xSCREAMOx, on 06/10/2008, -7/+19seriously, just link to their/your type foundries website.

    not ***** LIVEJOURNAL.

    im a designer and saw the URL and thought this was a joke.

    it does look like a nice typeface though.

    edit*
    here is the type foundries REAL URL. not some dumb asses ***** livejournal.

    http://www.parachute.gr
    • tsevis, on 06/10/2008, -4/+10Hi mate!
      You re absolutely right!
      But let me explain to you and to this community what's the stort behind this:

      99 days ago I submitted this story:
      http://digg.com/design/Champion_A_Guinness_record_ ...
      It made it to the front page as it was a story about a typeface with more than 4280 glyphs. Take a look and if you re a designer you re understand why 1148 people dugg it.
      (BTW, I am a member of Digg since Jan. 06. I have made just 11 submissions. Only one made it to the first page. No submission is linking to a page with advertising or else).

      Unfortunately it seems that on Digg there are a lot of people full of envy and bad feelings for other people's work and success.
      So, there were probably some diggers who report my submitted story about the PF Champion Script Pro as spam!

      I honestly don't know if the digg staff is really checking the spam reports but they flagged Parachute Fonts blog as spam.

      Last week, a colleague and friend of mine, Stavros Georgakopoulos (aka til01 on Digg) tried to submit two other stories about Parachute:
      This was the first:
      http://parachutefonts.blogspot.com/2008/05/centro- ...
      And this was the second:
      http://parachutefonts.blogspot.com/2008/05/parachu ...

      If you have enough time to read more than 2.000 words about the whole PF Centro project, the complete making of and the story behind the ED award you could easily understand if these were quality stories or not.

      My friend got a reply from Digg informing that his stories couldn't be submitted as Parachute's blog was flagged as spam by users.
      He contacted Digg's support center to ask them about this.
      They replied that Digg is a community base project and they don't want to change their mind.
      He replied complaining again and what he god as an answer was just a link to the terms and conditions.
      Therefore my friend decided to make this LiveJournal page and put the two stories just for digg.
      Obviously this was not the best decision, but it was the only possibility for the stories to be on Digg.
      ----------
      What is very sad is that there is no obvious definition of spam.
      As people today use to be extremely fast in judging, they could discriminate others easily.
      I am afraid that Digg and even worst some Diggers are reporting other people's submissions without even going to the URL. I am afraid that even this post, or this story would be reported as spam.
      I don't care much as I am not living by social media or anything relative.
      I love Digg and the Web 2.0 sites, because I can find content, friends and useful connections in all of these places. But what I am afraid of is that people in places like this are becoming more and more superficial.

      Regards to all!
      • til01, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2sorry but digg thinks that presenting something good its digg it or bury it
  • keithburgun, on 06/10/2008, -6/+20download link or it didn't happen
  • Thrilltone, on 06/10/2008, -9/+1zzzzzzzz...
    It's no SchnoerkelCaps
    http://surfpick.com/pics/s2.jpg
  • instalol, on 06/10/2008, -11/+20Who gives a ***** if you can't download it for free?
    • D14BL0, on 06/11/2008, -5/+8I'll have to agree. Paying for fonts is pretty ridiculous.
    • alpha88, on 06/11/2008, -8/+7Graphic designers who can actually recognize the difference between your ***** free fonts, and the ones we pay for.

      We pay for kerning tables and OpenType options, something most people probably haven't heard of. They can often determine the difference between a nice font and a ***** cheap font. The same characters =/= the same font.
      • suppazone, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1I dont think most diggers have the any clue whatsoever about the work that goes into font making
    • greytfriend, on 06/11/2008, -1/+9How about an appreciation of art and effort?
  • Tony6785, on 06/10/2008, -12/+7That has got to be the most boring award I have ever heard of.
  • ravi7791, on 06/10/2008, -12/+6You know how I know this is spam? There's no way diggers care enough to post so enthusiastically about a font.

    • tsevis, on 06/10/2008, -2/+4To judge if this is spam or not:
      SIMPLE:
      1. You can follow the URL.
      2. You can read the story.
      3. You can follow the links.
      You can judge for yourself.

      If you like read also my previous comment replying to xSCREAMOx.

      Regards.
    • alpha88, on 06/11/2008, -1/+5A lot of graphic designers (myself included) use Digg a lot. Hence top stories sometimes being about web or graphic design resources. Typefaces are a critical part of graphic design, so it makes sense that a story about the typeface of the year would make the front page.
    • greytfriend, on 06/11/2008, -1/+1Explain all of the well written and diverse comments then. Not just the spammy "great", "cool", "dugg" crap. Just because you aren't interested doesn't make it spam. Personally, I've been waiting for more submissions in the design category and was excited enough to see this one to shout it out to my friends. So far 15 of them have checked it out and dugg it and participated in the commenting.
  • woofers07, on 06/10/2008, -1/+9a slab serif, serif, and sans serif in one font family? pretty impressive
  • tian2992, on 06/11/2008, -3/+5Really nice font!
    It has a great congruency between the Serif, Sans-Serif and Slab (I am a Sans-Serif Person, but the serif looks quite good!).

    The design process was really interesting.
    http://parachutefonts.blogspot.com/2008/05/centro- ... (their Official Blog)
  • thedo0od, on 06/11/2008, -1/+4Lime green Courier New against black background. Nuff said.
    • alpha88, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3Nah, it's all about the lime green text on a magenta background in faux bold, faux italic Arial.
    • HamNCheese, on 06/11/2008, -0/+4Courier?? Real men use Bitstream Sans Mono.
  • SLockhart, on 06/11/2008, -5/+4Why would you go to the trouble of writing an article and not include a link to where I can download.
    • vladimirpoopen, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2Stop being lazy and dig through the article. Not difficult to figure out

      http://www.parachute.gr/fonts.aspx

      Ya gots 1k for a font set?
      • SLockhart, on 06/11/2008, -1/+2They're not free? Why?
        • jlnr, on 06/11/2008, -0/+7Maybe because a designer needs to pay for his food and electricity too, even though a font is intangible and he doesn't physically lose anything if you copy it?
        • jpinsonault, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3Can you imagine the time and effort one has to put into designing thousands of characters? This isn't a community project, this is typefacing.
    • hnsez, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1don't bother it costs $600
  • japandave, on 06/11/2008, -2/+5Anybody looking for cool fonts ought to check out www.dafont.com This ain't spam- it is just a public service announcement. I use these fonts all the time...
  • HamNCheese, on 06/11/2008, -1/+5WOW! This is the most exciting thing to take the font industry by storm since.....Times New Roman!

    All kidding aside, Congrats to the winner - looks like a nice usable font. :)
  • WomensUnderwear, on 06/11/2008, -9/+4SPAM
  • alpha88, on 06/11/2008, -1/+4Very nice typeface. Very usable.
  • Zebceponaf, on 06/11/2008, -10/+5what the ***** is up with all the crazy happy comments? Nobody on digg loves font this much. Stop spam commenting your story *****!
    • jinexile, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1What the hell are you talking about fonts are ***** delicious
  • praetorianpi, on 06/11/2008, -2/+2This just reminds me of American Psycho.
  • Pake, on 06/11/2008, -4/+3Best Typeface of 2008? No, just the best European typeface of 2008.
  • NHeerDesign, on 06/11/2008, -1/+4These typefaces are like Ferraris - beautiful, but by god I can't afford either.
  • ElBeh, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3Um, I like Calibri...
  • spiffyfitz, on 06/11/2008, -1/+2***** papyrus.
  • Gurubanks, on 06/11/2008, -2/+2If there's an award for this, why haven't I ever won anything?
  • ahtu, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1I can just imagine Patrick Bateman in the jury.
    Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a serif.
  • BeyondGoodNEvil, on 06/11/2008, -1/+2WTF? We're gonna have a font of the year? God damnit. Just give me Arial and Gotham.
  • Affect, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3I bought a copy.
  • nickmatsa, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1yes it is a great font i was watching the making of!
    http://parachutefonts.blogspot.com/2008/05/centro- ...
    and i noticed something "The Centro Pro Project started out as a small serif family of eight, but it grew to become the largest and most versatile set of related superfamilies."
    wowww the guy started and never ended im waiting to see the next project from that foundry.
    i saw this also http://parachutefonts.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_arch ...
  • edwardmluk, on 06/11/2008, -0/+5I remember my youthful days when I thought Comic Sans was a good font...
    • cyberdork, on 06/11/2008, -1/+2Can you believe it, a colleague of mine wrote her entire CV in Comic Sans and she got the job. Geez, is there any better way to show your lack of creativity by using Comic Sans?
  • chatster, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3good to know... a graphic designer's dream! thanks
  • Gadgeteer10, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3Very cool font! Thanks for this digg
  • SLockhart, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2You know I think you guys are right. It's kinda like how a musician deserves to get paid for his music.
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