A new day, a new type­face. We are proud to present you our lat­est type­face fam­ily. Cre­ated by Ste­fan Claudius and Kathrin Rous­sel as a cus­tom font for an inter­na­tional music-festival. CA Oskar comes in two vari­a­tions, con­densed and com­pressed. Get ready to be squeezed.

The Cape Arcona Type Foundry cre­ated the new cor­po­rate type­face for one of Germany’s biggest shoe retail chains, DEICHMANN. The DEICHMANN type fam­ily fea­tures an exten­sive char­ac­ter set, authen­tic Bul­gar­ian Cyril­lic plus – prob­a­bly as one of the first type­faces world­wide – the new Turk­ish Lira sign. Read more.

Some of our clas­sic type­faces are still in the plain old Post­script 1 for­mat. We do not find the time to update them into the Open­Type for­mat because – well, you decide, what is bet­ter, play­ing beach vol­ley­ball the whole day or con­vert­ing fonts? Yes, exactly!
Any­way, even at Cape Arcona there are days when it’s rain­ing and we finally find the time for “con­vert­ing”. So, today we rere­lease our old time clas­sic CA No Dr. in Open­Type for­mat. Also, you can chose to buy each style indi­vid­u­ally. Viva la tech­ni­cal progress!

FontShop is now sell­ing a selec­tion of our finest fonts: CA Nor­mal (Sans+Serif), CA Cula and our beloved CA Spy­Royal. What might make it attrac­tive to you dear cus­tomer, are some spe­cial pack­ages. For exam­ple CA Nor­mal comes in sev­eral sub­sets, so that you get just the fonts you need but at a very attrac­tive price. As you can­not see the sets directly on the FontShop web­site, here is a short overview:

CA Nor­mal Set 1 ( Reg­u­lar, Bold, Reg­u­lar Italic, Bold Italic)
CA Nor­mal Set 2 ( Light, Medium, Heavy, Light Italic, Medium Italic, Heavy Italic)
CA Nor­mal Set 3 ( Light Left, Reg­u­lar Left, Medium Left, Bold Left, Heavy Left)

CA Nor­mal Serif Set 1 ( Reg­u­lar, Bold, Reg­u­lar Italic, Bold Italic)
CA Nor­mal Serif Set 2 ( Medium, Extra­bold, Medium Italic, Extra­bold Italic)

Just click “pur­chase options” to see in which pack­ages the fonts are included.
But still we would pre­fer you to buy our fonts here, you know it’s like buy­ing the milk from the farmer: it has a bet­ter taste…

Hur­ray, CA Cula, a new text fam­ily designed by Thomas Schos­tok {ths} is being released today. When we look back into our archive we dis­cov­ered that the first alpha ver­sion dated back to 2007. It’s some­what spooky to think that it took us 4 long years to final­ize this type­face but you know, we are pool watch­ers. So either we are very lazy and loved our pool, the girls and the Mar­ti­nis a lit­tle bit too much, or we just spent a tremen­dous lot of time and effort into the pro­duc­tion of the type­face. How knows…

This type­face is stand­ing in the tra­di­tion of cool tem­pered sans serif type­faces like DIN. But at a closer look it reveals a ten­dency towards rounder reading-friendly forms. The denat­u­ral­ized ink traps give CA Cula a very spe­cial and indi­vid­ual look in dis­play sizes, whereas in smaller sizes the pos­i­tive aspects of huge ink traps show effect. The text looks clean and bright with­out black dots in the typo­graphic image. This makes CA Cula suit­able even for longer text, while the bold weight makes pretty cool head­lines. The tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions speaks for itself: 8 styles, cen­tral Europe char­ac­ter set, exten­sive ligatures, old-style numer­als, true ital­ics and styl­is­tic alternates.

Didi you read this text to the very end? Okay, here is your reward: you now, we from Cape Arcona always gave you candy in the past, so we do in the present: CA Cula Light is for free, yes, for you, for free! No charge­back, nothing.

With the soon to be released CA Cula fam­ily, we added the Italic style to our beloved super­fatty CA Cula Super­fat. How sweet fat you are. Our pack­age includes the Reg­u­lar and the new Italic but you can buy the new style sep­a­rately at Myfonts.com. Fat forever!

Fan­tas­tic news for every­one! You can pur­chase our brand new CA Nor­mal Serif with a 50% dis­count (oh yes, thats a five with a zero!) at our dis­trib­u­tor Myfonts.com. The Promo ends August 11, so just grab it before it’s too late – even bet­ter, buy the whole fam­ily instead and can­cel your flight to the Bahamas for your hol­i­days.
CA Nor­mal Serif at Myfonts.com

CA Nor­mal Serif is the per­fect com­pan­ion to its grotesque brother CA Nor­mal. But it is not just a ser­ifed equiv­a­lent. It has a char­ac­ter of its own while pre­serv­ing the prin­ci­pal pro­por­tions and the idea of quirk­i­ness. It was not the aim to build a type­face that can imme­di­ately be iden­ti­fied as a rel­a­tive of CA Nor­mal. The inten­tion was to cre­ate a match­ing type­face in aspects of aes­thetic and con­cept. Whereas com­monly serif-companions to grotesques are old-style or slab-serif, CA Nor­mal Serif is sit­u­ated between mod­ern and slab-serif type­faces.
This kind of fonts is not too pop­u­lar at the moment, but maybe it will be in a few years, who knows? In the mean­while: Trust your taste. CA Nor­mal Serif is a lit­tle bit of an uncom­fort­able type­face. Noth­ing is smooth and cozy. It picks up ele­ments of clas­sic news­pa­per type as brought to us by Chauncey H. Griffith’s leg­i­bil­ity group,  shar­ing the fla­vor of abra­sive details and “slab­bish” ser­ifs. But the pro­por­tions are more con­densed than the ones of its pre­de­ces­sors giv­ing it a bit more ele­gance, which moves it closer to the aes­thetic of scotch romans.

Our beloved CA Aires Pro and CA Air­cona are now avail­able in Open­Type For­mat and finally include a full cen­tral Euro­pean char­ac­ter set.

CA NORMAL is fea­tured in the brand­new SLANTED mag­a­zine issue which is ded­i­cated to Grotesque fonts.
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