Filmotype Glenlake
Filmotype Glenlake (2007). Initially designed and released in 1955, this classic American gothic has been remastered and expanded in OpenType format. It includes an extended international character set, automatic fractions and ordinals, case sensitive characters, and alternate “a” and “y” for custom looks.
Having disappeared from graphic design history, Filmotype Glenlake reappeared briefly in Tim Burton’s film “Ed Wood” in 1994 with a starring role in the opening credits. The title of Wood’s famous film “Glen or Glenda” may have been the inspiration for this choice, but it happens to be perfectly appropriate for the period depicted in the film. (See my article “Typecasting” for more about this.)
Filmotype was the earliest of the desktop headline setting machines, introduced in the mid-1950s, and popular in art studios throughout the U.S. for over a decade. A large library of faces was developed for the machine, and many of them have never been digitized. Filmotype Glenlake is one of the first releases of many classic Filmotype fonts planned for revival, in cooperation with Filmotype’s founders. I’m excited to be helping to bring back some of these great faces.
Read more about the development of Filmotype Glenlake in my Notebook.