design information
Filmotype Horizon was among the company's earliest brush lettered casuals and was Introduced by Filmotype in the early-to-mid 1950s. This playful script was among Filmotype's most popular brush script style typefaces.

Filmotype Horizon was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractionals, ordinals, and a gigantic compliment of alternate characters and ligatures creating a genuine connecting hand painted look in dynamic OpenType format.

Originally sold in the 1950s, the Filmotype introduced by its founders Allan and Beatrice Friedman was a simple manually operated photo typesetting machine (the iMac of the 1950s) and it used 2-inch filmstrips with over 500 amazing display alphabets so the user could set headlines on photo paper or film. Filmotype eventually went on to become Alphatype until the Mac came along in 1984 and POOF! No more photo typesetting!

In 2006, the Font Diner acquired this amazing photo film alphabet collection and continues to digitize and releasing these wonderful gems of 1950s lettering as digital fonts!