"Rimmer Type Foundry brings together the metal type founding knowledge and the hand skills -- many years as a lettering artist -- of Jim Rimmer (1934-2010) and makes of them something useable in the digital font world. The mechanical aspects of metal type, its dimensions, side-bearings and point designations, blend hand-in-glove with the metrics or parameters of the digital letterform. The foundry leans in the direction of traditional type forms but does address the need to offer more contemporary type styles. Type outlines originated as careful renderings in Ikarus directly from the hand-drawn pencil art. The releases of the Rimmer digital fonts are offered in TrueType, PostScript and OpenType for the widest ranger of possible usage.
"Jim Rimmer's experience in graphic design covered more than five decades, encompassing positions in advertising agencies and design studios. He had the good fortune to experience the mixed blessings of freelancing as a letterer, designer, and illustrator. In addition he served as Type Director of the Lanston Type Company during its time in Vancouver and made the digital versions of the Cloister, Deepdene and Garamont fonts for Lanston." -- front matter