Yesterday’s posting about Bodoni‘s eating and vagrancy prompted the usual rash of font-related comments and questions, including the hoary old one of why we didn’t call Milo the Golden Retriever Baskerville.

We have two cats named Bembo and Bodoni, and the dog is Milo. Well, the first reason was that three Bs would have confused the animals as well as us, but perhaps more importantly Milo is Von’s dog and she got the naming rights. Milo was chosen after careful checking that the name had absolutely no connection with either fonts or follies.

Sorry Von. The world finds out about these things and so I’m pleased to announce the elegant new font MILO, designed by Mike Abbink and available from the Berlin foundry FontFont:

US type designer Mike Abbink appears in my book The Encyclopaedia of Fonts as the designer of Kievit, an elegant Gill Sans inspired Lineal Humanist. The FF Milo family comes in a staggering 258 weights, and I’d love to know how that’s done. I can’t imagine Mr Abbink sitting down to draw 258 complete suites, but then Kievit has or had 48 weights.

And here’s my own font family — Bodoni and Bembo, an extremely rare photograph of the two of them together as they despise each other and have done from the day we collected them ostensibly as inseparable brothers from the Cat’s Protection League — and Von with Milo at Crouch End station this January. Now it’s May and it’s only slightly colder.

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