MUSEO - a [free] font from exljbris Font Foundry. MUSEO, now with new italics!
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MUSEO ... it all started with my love for U. One day this uppercase letter U just came to me as an image in a daydream. I saw the top of both stems bended into semi-slab serifs. Museo-300 police. Exljbris Type Foundry. The Arnhem based one-man foundry exljbris was founded in 2004 by Dutchman Jos Buivenga.
The way he came to prominence as a type designer is fairly uncommon. For years, his online friends and fans could follow the development of his typefaces via his website and blog, and download the results for free. In 2008, while … Read more »still working at an advertising agency, he released his first commercial typeface Museo with several weights offered for free. Exljbris. Dutchman Jos Buivenga already had an impressive following when he and his foundry, exljbris, joined MyFonts in 2008.
For years, his online friends and fans were able to witness and comment on the development of his typefaces on his website and download the beta versions at no cost at all. When he transformed his free site into a one-man foundry, he debuted his first commercial typeface in an unprecedented, and ultimately, very successful way. With this typeface, Museo, Jos became the first designer to offer several weights in an extended font family for free. “I had to take into account that most people who knew me, knew me for my free fonts,” he said in his Creative Characters interview, “so my guess was that it would be best to offer more free than paid weights.”
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