CA Cula is some­how a kind of CA BND ver­sion 2. It started from the same basis, but received funky ink traps and the let­ter­forms are more open. This makes it a bit more friendly to read and gives the font a cer­tain ten­sion which you dear buyer should now start to appre­ci­ate (by buy­ing it).

CA Cula 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.

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A day in the his­tory of Cape Arcona: Blooper

This is the last day of our one week pro­mo­tion and we like to give you a spe­cial one now. From time to time we give some press con­fer­ences that are recorded live and can be found in our CAPE TV sec­tion.
For sure, every­thing is staged, like in every Hol­ly­wood movie, so, we give you some out­takes and blooper here, some sort of mak­ing of, some, well, you decide for your­self. Cre­ated back in 2009 this video never saw the light of day until today!

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Cape Arcona Type Foundry – Blooper on Vimeo.

We really don’t under­stand, why CA Cape Rock didn’t become an instant best­seller. It’s such a cute font, with so many fancy lig­a­tures. Come on – have a sec­ond look.
Cre­ated with a fat Claren­don in mind, its bold and dis­tinc­tive forms add spice and per­son­al­ity to every design requir­ing a strong dis­play aes­thetic. A large num­ber of lig­a­tures and cus­tom end­ing char­ac­ters are included in this Open­Type font and can be accessed auto­mat­i­cally or man­u­ally in most mod­ern design applications.

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A day in the his­tory of Cape Arcona: Fonts in use

The excite­ment to see our fonts in use is a very spe­cial feel­ing. Some­times we have tears in our eyes, some for good, some for bad. We remem­ber hav­ing a good time watch­ing the 2004, surf movie “rid­ing Giants” (here is a trailer) when we saw the title and cred­its set in a slightly trashed ver­sion of our beloved CA KissKiss­Bang­Bang.
 
We also got wet eyes when we saw the title design and cred­its of a Ger­man TV series air­ing at a TV Sta­tion who is THE pio­neer of lower class tele­vi­sion in Ger­many: RTL. They gave us soft erotic movies in the early ’90s when we needed them most. Anyway,the thing is that they used CA Texas Funeral for title design and cred­its of the show „Rach, der Restau­ranttester“. Since this font is free for non­com­mer­cial use, we are skep­ti­cal about how other peo­ple under­stand the term “com­mer­cial”.

Some­times our fonts are irrev­o­ca­bly linked to sub­cul­ture. We like that a lot. Actu­ally we like the use of our fonts for inde­pen­dent music fes­ti­vals a lot more then the use for prod­ucts made out of but­ter or milk. So here comes a really trashy one. It’s for the “Silly Art F*ck Fes­ti­val”, back in 2006, in Han­nover (a city some of you G.I.s still remem­ber) with some really crazy bands, like “B*tt F*ck P*ssy” (so much “u” miss­ing here) or “Rausch­ab­stand” or “Impul­sant­wort”. Great! All set in our CA Pussy Galore, every­thing fits together.

We knew that CA Nor­mal Serif wouldn’t become an instant best­seller, as slab ser­ifs are a bit out of fash­ion at the moment. But fash­ions come and go and we strongly believe that one day the pen­du­lum will swing back from dynamic fonts to sta­tic ones. For sans-serif type­faces we already see this trend (think of the many many helvetica-like fonts newly released), so you don’t have to be a clair­voy­ant to know that one day, every­one will use Claren­don, Book­man, Cen­tury School­book and the likes. And then peo­ple will find them all too wide and they will remem­ber CA Nor­mal Serif and then they will buy it and then we will finally get rich. Amen!
CA Nor­mal Serif is the per­fect com­pan­ion to its grotesque brother CA Nor­mal Sans. 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 Sans. 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.

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A day in the his­tory of Cape Arcona: Cula Shoes

Is it just a strange coin­ci­dence, that there is a shoe man­u­fac­turer out there with the same name as one of our favorite type­face, CA Cula? No, of course not. Back in the early 00’s we were intro­duced to the min­istry of com­merce in Cuba to cre­ate a cor­po­rate iden­tity for “Cula”, a shoe man­u­fac­turer. In fact, they do not man­u­fac­ture shoes, they just buy second-hand shoes and sell them as “3rd-hand” shoes or give it for free to poor peo­ple, what is a pity, mostly all peo­ple in Cuba are. The logo was cre­ated by Ste­fan Claudius and we used C.I.A. by Thomas Schos­tok as cor­po­rate type.

CA Aires turned out to be our most pop­u­lar free font (now only rivaled by Cula Light) and after requests for a proper font, the success-story con­tin­ued. So today we offer you one of our most suc­cess­ful babies for 50% off.
This font was inspired by a post­card from the 30s. On the one side near the stamp were the words ‘BUENOS AIRES’. It looked so sim­ple yet strange, that we started to make a font of it. It turned out to become Cape Arcona’s most pop­u­lar free font and we were even sent Span­ish ver­sions of the font. After a lot of requests for a full char­ac­ter set we started to draw the lower cases. They keep the sim­ple but quirky style that makes the upper cases so inter­est­ing and versatile.

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A day in the his­tory of Cape Arcona: BEAST PDF Magazine

Some would say, it all started here – and Cape Arcona was born out of the leg­endary BEAST mag­a­zine, which was cre­ated by the peo­ple behind the Cape. In fact, BEAST mag­a­zine used a lot of unusual typog­ra­phy and was for sure a plat­form to test out new type­faces. We also cre­ated new type­faces for the use in the mag­a­zine. One of the first fonts used in it’s early stages was CA No Dr., for exam­ple. Leg­ends say that after we laid down the work on BEAST, we just cre­ated Cape Arcona. Who knows the truth?

CA Nor­mal had it’s debut in jan­u­ary 2010 dur­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion at the tgm in Munich. It orig­i­nally started with the idea of a cleaned-up ver­sion of CA Aires. So the pro­por­tions of the upper cases are basi­cally the same as in CA Aires. The lower cases are sig­nif­i­cantly nar­rower to match the caps. We even did small caps, which is such a pain in the ass.
CA Nor­mal is a type­face aim­ing for beauty with­out osten­si­ble effects, merely rely­ing on clar­ity and well bal­anced pro­por­tions. It merges influ­ences from Euro­pean grotesques and Amer­i­can goth­ics, breed­ing an exper­i­men­tal mon­grel. The under­ly­ing con­cept stays in the back­ground, giv­ing the design a great self-evidence. Although it is doubt­ful if there can be such thing as neu­tral­ity, CA Nor­mal comes pretty close to what peo­ple mean when speak­ing of a neu­tral font.

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A day in the his­tory of Cape Arcona: Bonde söker fru

Back in 2005 or so we got a mail from a Swedish tele­vi­sion agency ask­ing us the favor to set the words “BONDE SÖKER FRU” in our type­face Deko­ria, because they admit­ted being unsure if Deko­ria would fit their pur­poses and if the claim would look good in that font. Not hav­ing the faintest idea what that could mean (actu­ally it means “Farmer wants Wife”) we sent them a pic­ture. A few month later we got a sec­ond mail with kind thanks and a screen­shot attached. When­ever we feel down (what hardly ever hap­pens, of course) we think of 1,5 mil­lion peo­ple see­ing our type­face in a TV series in which a farmer is look­ing for a woman (or a man). We hope that BONDE SÖKER FRU has a more elab­o­rated and rep­utable con­cept of show­ing a farm­ers life than Germany’s equiv­a­lent called “Bauer sucht Frau”, which is the best exam­ple for under­class tele­vi­sion. How about a series called “Type­designer wants Customer”?

CA Spy Royal – 50% off

There are not too many sto­ries to tell about this font. It’s a genius stroke, what more can we say?
CA Spy Royal was inspired by an adver­tis­ing for Japan Air­lines, around 1950. We think about Hot Rod, spy movies, cock­tails with kinky girls, fluffy pil­lows, pink panties, dyna­mite and gasoline.