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FSI (FontShop International), founded in 1990, is a renowned type foundry based in Berlin, Germany with an office in San Francisco, USA.

FontFonts
FSI produces the famous FontFont typeface library, constantly setting exciting new trends in typography with designs by more than 100 designers and many new releases each year. A free FontFont Catalog is available from alt.TYPE.

FontBook
FSI publishes the FontBook, the world's most comprehensive reference book on digital typefaces. Available from alt.TYPE.

FUSE
Between 1990 and 1998 FSI and Neville Brody produced 17 editions of the legendary experimental typographic publication FUSE and sponsored the, somewhat irregular, FUSE conferences. Neville assures us that there will be 3 more FUSE editions, finishing with FUSE 20 and more FUSE conferences, so check with alt.TYPE for information.

The FontFont library continues to grow with this release. New designs include FF Govan, FF Kievit, FF Manga Steel, FF Manga Stone, FF Motter Festival, FF Ottofont, FF Ropsen Script, FF Zine, and FF Routes.

With this release popular FontFont families have been expanded: FF Bodoni Classic Text, FF Eureka Mono 2, FF Eureka Sans Condensed 1, FF Eureka Sans Condensed 2, and FF Eureka Sans Condensed 1, FF Signa Condensed, and FF Signa Italic.

Non-Latin character sets have been added to more FontFonts. Central European fonts are available for FF Celeste, FF Celeste Caps, FF DIN, FF Eureka Mono 1 and 2, FF Eureka Sans Condensed 1 and 2, FF Fago, FF Fago Office Sans, FF Fago Office Serif, FF Fago Normal Black (plus Normal Bold, Normal Extra Bold, Normal Medium, Normal Regular). Greek versions of FF Isonorm, FF Meta 1, FF Meta Bold, FF Meta Book, and FF Providence have also been released.