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VERONIKA BURIAN
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	Maiola is the result of one year of hard work and study at the University of Reading that brought me new knowledge, experience and a lot of fun. It received the Type Directors Club-Award, Maiola is currently part of the exhibition e-a-t. It toured already Prague, Bratislava, TheHague and is supposed to travel next to Barcelona, Poland, London and who knows ...? The family contains Regular, Italic, Bold and Bolditalic with Small Caps, ligatures, lining and old-style figures. It also includes Cyrillic and monotonic Greek. The polytonic version should follow soon. Maiola is available through Fontshop International. If you wish to have a look at some screen specimen, please click. Certificate of Excellence in Type Design in 2004. It was also chosen by Veronika Elsner from Elsner&Flake as her personal 'Judge's Choice'. The exhibition travelled to various cities all over the world.
	Ronnia is a friendly humanist Sans Serif that I started to work on several years ago. With the help of Jose Scaglione, my partner at TypeTogether, we have released a family of twenty members, weights ranging from Light to Heavy with accompayning Italics and a condensed version. Ronnia can speak over 40 languages using the Latin script and Opentype features include Lining and Old-style figures, fractions, superiors and inferiors, ligatures and symbols. Please click to see more or go to my font label TypeTogether.
	Karmina is the first joint project that is coming out of TypeTogether. Jose and me worked pretty hard in the last few months to finish this type-family. It is available at our font label TypeTogether and a few other font vendors. Karmina is a text typeface developed mainly for pocket books and budget editions. It was built to withstand the worst printing conditions: low quality papers, high printing speed with web presses and variations in the ink level of the printing press. It features four weights and 800 characters per weight, including small caps, discretionary ligatures, fractions and a complete range of numerals for every use. It also supports over 40 languages that use the latin extended alphabet.
	Crete is essentially a display typeface, orginally inspired by a wall lettering in a small chapel on Crete, Greece. Despite it's experimental character though it works nicely in a text environment. Unlike other Regular/Bold relationships, Crete differs in the thickness of the Serifs rather than the stem-width. Therefore it remains equal metrics and can be interchanged without reflow of the text. It features our Basic character set including two sets of numerals, ligatures and language support for over 40 languages that use the Latin script.
	Bree is based on the logotype of my font label TypeTogether. In the last year, Jose and I have worked on publishing 5 weights, ranging from Thin to Extrabold. It is a sleek sans serif with some rather unusal design treatment on letters, such as g y k v w z. Clearly influenced by handwriting, Bree shows a pleasant mixture of rather unobtrusive capitals and the more vivid lowercase letters, that give the text a spirited and lively appearance.Ê It is definitely a memorable upright italic! There also alternate letters available when a more classical look is desired.
	Gitter started with a few letters as logotype for a friend, but she preferred another solution. At the moment I have done only the lowercase, click it and you will see.
	Tondo is a project that I developed while working at Daltonmaag in London. It originated from a custom project and the terms allowed us to publlish it via Daltonmaag's website. Tondo is a take on the popularity of rounded fonts at the time, but the rounded ends are not circles. Instead they are slightly squashed in order to take it away from a childish look and to give it a "grown-up" feel. The Typeface is available in 3 weights plus a cut for signage purpose which is narrower and has a slightly raised x-height. All weights also include Cyrillic.
	Foco is also a project developed at Daltonmaag. The typeface was started by Brazilian designer Fabio Haag, who met Bruno Maag at a workshop in Sao Paulo. Bruno agreed to publish his design and so we redrew and refined Fabio's initial sketches and created 4 weights in total. Foco is available in Daltonmaag's standard opentype edition that includes two sets of numerals, fractions, inferiors/superiors, ligatures and supports more than 40 languages of the latin alphabet.
Veronika Burian copyright © 2004