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There is one typeface missing in the many overviews of 2008 that still deserves to be mentioned. Jim Rimmer’s RTF Stern already popped up on Typographer.org when it appeared on the market, and it has been written about elsewhere as well. Yet as is often the case with releases that are slightly out of the ordinary – in this case the first typeface to be simultaneously released in metal and digital – little attention goes to the actual design of the typeface. This is why I decided to take a look at this (literally) singular release in this month’s Bald Condensed review. Yet I was also interested in hearing Jim Rimmer’s thoughts on it as well, so I interviewed him for The FontFeed.
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