New Release: Missa Solemnis

That's one nice specimen! And I love the extra characters, like the full set of Roman numerals. BTW, did GGL have calligraphic training? Lastly: How did Andreas get the rights to the font?

Anyway, nice "resurrection"!

hhp

Mee likee too. But then I'm a OT sucker...

Nice paragraph color, love al those alternates too -- but then again, what typophile doesn't? :)

hildebrant

I can admire the craft in this - but I'm b*ggered if I can think of any actual real use for it that wouldn't be pastiche.

Page 12 of the pdf shows off some lovely ornaments!

any actual real use for it that wouldn’t be pastiche

By simply doing just that: use it completely outside of pastiche. The same goes for blackletter.

So much of our culture has been sacrificed to irony for short-term amusement. The only way to reclaim it is to use it again but without irony. The first few times you risk confusing people, but worse things could happen.

Solemnis would still look great on invitations, religious printing, and certain posters without such risk. On the flip side of that, it would be wasted on Ren-faire signage, video game boxes, and any sort of frivolous "neopagan" material employed by people who confuse idle fairytale romanticism with faith.

I have a project that this would be perfect for... and I can't wait to use it... and to my utter astonishment, it's only US$55.

Hot damn!

Same here -- love at first sight, and only $55. What a deal!

But now I have a problem. I've tried placing the fonts in InDesign's font folder. Problem: They do not show up in the font menu. I've tried using Suitcase. Problem: Only the 1953 version shows up in InDesign's font menu.

Am I missing something? Email to astype was bounced back to me, thus my questions here.

Thanks for any insights.

Stephen

What I didn't explain earlier was that I am using a Mac, OSX. I was fooled by the fact that the .otf files came through with their icons intact, so I thought they were ready to go. Wrong.

On a whim borne of frustration I (O for the whims of a dove?) I used Adobe's OTF FileTyper (http://www.adobe.com/type/opentype/qna.html) on them. Success! They now work perfectly in InDesign.

Joy and rapture.

Stephen

Hmm... well at first I leapt for joy and rapture when I read the previous post, for similarly the 2003 version isn't showing up in InDesign -- though not a problem in Photoshop or any other programme. Neither Suitcase nor the Font folders of System, Library or User/Library seem to overcome this problem, and the System 9 FileTyper patch mentioned above has been no help, and FileTyper itself report both fonts as being identical creators and wotsit. :-( Font Doctor reports no problems, and yet InDesign won't see it. Would one of the kind experts who haunt these boards care to pronounce? (Please!) Thanks for any help.

Have you tried putting the fonts (after they've been put throught the filetyper program) in InDesign's font folder? This is how I have them set up, and it seems to be working.

Stephen

Thanks, Stephen. That seems to have done the trick! I didn't even know I had YET another Fonts folder in the InDesign Application folder. Incidentally, I found that if the fonts were present in any other location at the same time, then it would revert to only appearing as 1953... weird. But for now, it's an inelegant workaround -- for which I'm grateful, however! -- so here's looking forward to Panther, in the hope that this might be something rectified by FontBook or whatever they decide to call it.

>On the flip side of that, it would be wasted on Ren-faire signage, video game boxes, and any sort of frivolous “neopagan” material employed by people who confuse idle fairytale romanticism with faith.

John, your posts are increasingly too good to be true.

Anyway there is a thing I generally miss on "expanding" a type design which was not meant for that.
I can consider useful having different sets of numerals, but I have this strange impression people likes to throw in alternate letterforms for no precise reason.

I'm not talking specifically of this Solemnis release (although I don't understand the name change need) but in general.

> people likes to throw in alternate letterforms for no precise reason.

You're sort of right - but I guess it's just fun.

hhp

On balance, I think there are some useful alternates and features in this font, even if I can't think of a use for all of them at once. That's why they're called alternates. :-) Better too many than not enough.

For EUR55 I think it's quite a good deal, and it also happens to be my favorite uncial design. I like just about any GGL design, actually.

All these Missa Solemnis links seem to have gone dead. Anybody know the story?