Liza loves Snow Leopard
Months after her release Liza Pro finally works in TextEdit

We had a similar situation with Bello Pro. At the moment the typeface was released in 2004, the fancy OpenType features worked nicely in applications like InDesign and QuarkXPress, but not in applications which rely on the operating system, like TextEdit. Luckily half a year after we released the typeface, an updated version of OSX (10.4 / Tiger) finally supported the most important features in Bello Pro (for programs like TextEdit).

5 years later history repeats itself. At the moment of its release, our über-intelligent Liza behaved nicely in applications with a sophisticated OpenType support (Adobe CS, QuarkXPress, etc), but not in TextEdit. Let’s say that Liza’s IQ was too high for the operating system.

Meanwhile Apple released a new version of OSX (10.6 / Snow Leopard), which contains an update of the Core Text engine. This has an improved OpenType support, especially for contextual alternates. Not 100% yet, but at least Liza’s superlooper, t-topper and her pretty bold ‘out-of-ink’-feature finally work in TextEdit. Now: let’s all start designing using TextEdit!

From: Anna Chan
Date: September 5, 2009 3:52:10
Subject: dog in costume print

Hi

My friend in Amsterdam sent me a copy of the newsprint of the dogs in costume your company published. It was a pleasant surprise since my dog Calle in the lion costume was in the centerfold. Unfortunately she passed away on July the 10th.

Calle was quite the chameleon, she took on many characters, all with great pride and joy.
She was an advid Yankees baseball fan, she would go off barking when they hit a home run.
Above all, she was our true love, wearing different smiles every day.
Even on a rainy day, she made us laugh.

From: Juan Carlos Cammaert
Date: August 24, 2009 5:49:02
Subject: Dolly & friends

Hi Underware people

Thought you would enjoy this. We used your Dolly newspaper to cover a couple of windows of our studio. People now walk by and stop and laugh, look inside and even take pictures.

Best,
jc

From: Jonathan Perez
Date: July 20, 2009
Subject: Liza and Elsa

…there are probably not many things you could learn from me in type design, BUT maybe I could learn you some things about “lettres d’amour” for your classical education.
The three most important French poets, when we speak about “lettres d’amour”, may be : Alphonse de Lamartine (main book : les Méditations), Guillaume Apollinaire (Poèmes à Lou for instance) and Louis Aragon (most beautiful book: le Roman inachevé). (You could also have choose for the name of your font the name of one of their 3 main loves: Julie, Lou or Elsa).

I think the poems of Aragon for Elsa are the most beautiful things I have ever read in French litterature, so, I don’t know if you read French but here it is the last poem of the “Roman inachevé”, probably one of the most famous and the most beautiful lettre d’amour. Furthermore, I think it is perfect for type designers and your project Liza, as the last lines of the poem are (approximatively): At the end there will be only one name on the wall / And under the portrait of the love / My words are painted
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From: Maarten Leenknecht
Date: July 15, 2009 9:54:11
Subject: Liza

Hi,
This weekend I was inspired by Liza while painting a wall in Ghent, Belgium.
Ik ben benieuwd wat jullie ervan vinden.
Bedankt om mij te inspireren!
Grtn, Maarten Leenknecht, De Predikanten

From: Cristian Losada
Date: April 21, 2009 9:54:11 PM GMT+03:00
Subject: Fwd: Fakir motion graphics, from chile !!.

Hi, mi name is Tonot, i’m a graphic design student (8th semester) and graffiti artist based on Santiago, Chile, Southamerica. We’ve been following all what you do, and is great influence. Last year we did a Motion Graphic class, one of our assigments was to work with a typo and the typestudio. I choose Fakir, this is what i did.

Hope you like de video and check my website: http://www.okfscrew.com
Go fast, Tonot

On the 5th of February 2009 we got an email from Alex with this picture. If you have more information about this (or discover yourself on the picture), please let us know. Thanks.

For our friends in India, Bulgaria and the rest of the world: saying ‘yes’ can actually mean ‘no’, ‘no’ could mean ‘yes’, depending on the tone of voice and gestures. Can something similar be achieved by a written word? Well, probably good authors will manage in a long text. But if you’re not a professional and still want to express a contradiction inside one written word? Yes, this is possible. Or maybe not?
Gollum decides. No, let Smeagol decide.

Very cosy exhibition at a beautiful spot in Helsinki. The location used to be a large army bakery 200 years ago. The corridor was used for drying biscuits. Now you can see Is Not magazine, some posters like Metropolis, Dolly’s party and much more.