Tomato is the digitization and rather intricate growth of an early 1970s Franklin Photolettering movie type called Viola Flare. This typeface is an apparent kid of funk, the audio-visual revolution that swept America and put an end to the art nouveau duration we now associate with the hippy era.
Funk is obviously bit more than jazz with a chorus and an emphatic beat. Nevertheless, it became the definition of cool in the 1970s, thanks to blaxploitation movies with exceptional soundtracks like Shaft and Superfly. Funk started as a commercial audio experience, then later broadened its signature to cover whatever, from style to style to the later birth of disco, which is truly a further simplification of funk. Funk had very strong and special typographical elements, especially a kind of entitling with an essentially western, wood core that unexpectedly changed and flared in unforeseen areas till a really individual brand was accomplished. Everything that can be added to the alphabet was used towards that uniqueness. Things like curls, swirls, swashes, ligatures were always plentiful in funk, in some cases offering the titling a particular gender, in some cases bulging, sometimes speeding, sometimes fading in the distance, sometimes doing nothing however crazily lining up with other style elements, but the outcome was always a fascinating creature that seemed to inevitably want to dance and have enjoyable.
Tomato was constructed in precisely that spirit. The original film type certainly had enough swashes and curls to be an unmistakable funk typeface in itself, however our further growth of it seals it and makes it the certain font style for the genre. With as many as 12 various possibilities for some letters, the designer's choices for a titling set in Tomato are essentially limitless.
The Postscript and Real Type variations of Tomato been available in five typefaces, consisting of two fonts for alternates, one font style for ligatures, and one typeface for swashes. These are divided into 2 cost effective plans. The whole household package is likewise available at a much more budget-friendly rate, and includes complimentary Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, and Central European versions of Tomato.
A Tomato Pro OpenType variation is also readily available. It is a single font that includes over 650 characters, glued together with comprehensive shows for benefit of use in OpenType-friendly applications, where you can enjoy the letters change and dance as you press the buttons and alter the alternatives of your OT palette.
Now you know which typeface will enter your mind when someone states the word "cool".
.Font Family: Tomato Pro Regular