Bea Korsh released Cake4Freaks, a typeface inspired by Gerrit Noordzij’s sketching technique. At large sizes, the zigzags carve the page into abstraction—darting, curving, crossing in a labyrinth of letterforms organic and bizarre. At small sizes, however, they solidify into the silvery shapes of a textface modeled on the broad nib pen. [futurefonts.xyz]

On the heels of Macrosoma Grotesque, Blaze Type released a second member of Valerio Monopoli and Fred Wiltshire’s extensive Macrosoma collection, Macrosoma (Grotesque) Stencil. [blazetype.eu]

Brandon Nickerson Studio released BN Attica, a bold geometric sans serif. [bnicks.com]

CakeType released Vandertak Capslock, an all-caps, layered chromatic companion to Vandertak (2023), designed by Pieter van Rosmalen with the assistance of Jacques Le Bailly. The typeface is inspired by early 20th-century lettering on the facade of Hotel New York in Rotterdam. [caketype.com]

Death of Typography released DT Hooke, a condensed serif typeface designed by Lee Yun Xuan. Its sharp ink traps and even sharper terminals evoke the pointed edges of a hook’s barb, while the bars curve with a natural bend, capturing the dynamic motion of catching or pulling. [deathoftypography.com]

DualType published on Future Fonts the initial version of Dual Casual, an all-caps informal script typeface designed by Gen Ramírez. With origins in a design called Tejuino, it evolved into a variable font with axes for weight, width, and slant. [futurefonts.xyz]

East of Rome and Manchester Type released Mansa, a multi-script typeface designed by David Williams which pairs a Latin design informed by 19th-century English Modern types to a Naskh-style Arabic design in the tradition of metal types used by the Būlāq Press in Cairo throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally developed by Williams for the MA of Type Design at Reading University, the Arabic design was subsequently revised by Muna Abdelhadi. [eastofrome.com, store.typenetwork.com]

En Travaux released Péix, a condensed dot-matrix serif typeface designed by Audrey Aujoulat and En Travaux, available as a multi-axis variable font. The typeface takes its name from the pronunciation of px (short for pixel). [entravaux.framer.website]

HAL Typefaces released HAL Magic, a confident and dynamic geometric sans-serif face loosely based on Joseph Churchward’s Tranquility (1972), designed by Elias Hanzer and Lucas Liccini. The typeface’s range of x-heights, from almost-unicase down to peculiarly low, is available, along with weight and slant, as a variation axis. [type.hanli.eu]

Hot Type released Exat, a neo-grotesque sans designed by Mihael Šandro and Marko Hrastovec that references Helvetica (Haas, 1957) through the lens of Croatia’s assimilation of the International Style, propelled by the art & architecture collective EXAT 51 and its co-founder, artist/designer Ivan Picelj. Exat is available as a variable font with width and weight axes. [exat.hottype.co]

Identity Letters released Joie Grotesk, a nod to 19th-century grotesques designed by Moritz Kleinsorge, available in nine weights, in upright and italic styles. [identity-letters.com]

Inhouse Type released Totokin, a reverse-contrast slab serif designed by Mariya Lish. [inhousetype.com]

Leinster Type released Multiflex, a sans serif with open forms and a large x-height, designed by Troy Leinster and made available as a variable font with weight and width axes. [leinstertype.com]

Letterjuice released Αθηναία (Athenea), a Greek script experimental yet functional family which explores the boundaries between type styles within the same typeface, designed by Pilar Cano and Ferran Milan. [letterjuice.cat]

Letters from Sweden released Ivar Hand, based on the handwriting of eight-year-old Ivar and enhanced with a built-in randomizer activated through the Contextual Alternates OpenType feature. [lettersfromsweden.se]

Mark Simonson Studio released Synergy, a neo-grotesque sans along the lines of Swiss faces such as Univers (Deberny & Peignot, 1957), developed from an idea Mark Simonson had in 1981 for a ‘friendly’ sans serif with somewhat rectilinear forms and very few angles. [marksimonson.com]

In February, Outline Online released Arketa, a careful amalgamation of different references, spanning from an old Apple StyleWriter II advert and other, less obscure sources, such as IBM’s Pica, Advocate and Elite typewriter faces, and our own samples from a Hermes Baby typewriter, designed by Samira Schneuwly and Laura Csocsán. [outline-online.com].

RadLuka released RL Folklor, a display typeface that takes cues from traditional craftsmanship, particularly woodcut aesthetics, designed by Radek Łukasiewicz. [radluka.com]

Sudtipos released Gintona Sans, the serifless counterpart to Gintona Slab (2024), designed by Eduardo Dulín. [sudtipos.com]

The Designers Foundry released Genevoix, a tribute to Bauhaus aesthetics designed by Roman Seban as a modular stencil design for display usage, supplemented by a geometric sans suitable for running text. [thedesignersfoundry.com]

The Northern Block released Loew Next Devanagari, a further expansion of Loew Next — following Loew Next Arabic in 2018 — designed by Amélie Bonet and Jonathan Hill, with Indic script consultancy from Erin McLaughlin and Pooja Saxena. [thenorthernblock.co.uk]

Tiro Typeworks and Microsoft released Skeena Indigenous, an indigenous-first project, in which priority is given to supporting orthographic and typographic norms of indigenous languages of North America, rather than prioritizing those of European settler languages, designed by Paul Hanslow and John Hudson as an expansion of the modulated humanist sans Skeena, which in 2021 was proposed as one of the five possible successors to Calibri. Skeena Indigenous is made available under the OFL license and features extensive documentation, including discussion of common issues in indigenous text such as presence of confusable Unicode characters and unstable encodings, language specific variant letterforms, and OpenType Layout implementation. [microsoft.github.io]

TPTQ Arabic released Roshan (Persian for bright or enlightenment), a high contrast multiscript typeface with close connections to calligraphic traditions, designed by Sina Fakour with assistance from Peter Biľak and Kristyan Sarkis. It features an incised Latin design, and an Arabic design inspired by the rounded forms of Persian Naskh and Maghrebi writing styles. [tptq-arabic.com]

TypeMates released Gregory Poster, a high-contrast condensed flared serif typeface designed by Jakob Runge (Latin), George Triantafyllakos (Greek) and Seryozha Rasskazov (Cyrillic). [typemates.com]

Velvetyne released Velvelyne, a sans serif designed by Mariel Nils and Manon Van der Borght for the foundry’s website, based on the algorithmic manipulation by Benjamin Dumond and Raphaël Bastide of Liberation Sans (Ascender, 2007). [velvetyne.fr]

AM Serie 704 is a revival by by Stefano Baldassari of Serie 704 (Xilografia Milanese), a bold all-caps face with geometric shapes and a modular construction. [c-a-s-t.com]

AM Marche is a revival by Fabrizio Falcone of Marche (Xilografia di Verona), a geometric sans with some idiosyncracies that reveal its Art Deco origins. [c-a-s-t.com]

AM Novecento is a revival by Alessandro Bombieri of Novecento (Xilografia di Verona, 1937-1940), a dark geometric all-caps sans of elementary construction, with a striking rounded feel due to the abundance of arcs and circles that make up its design. [c-a-s-t.com]

Carbak Stamp is a single-style, all-caps distressed sans evoking rubber stamp impression, supplemented by ornaments for chromatic layering. [devicefonts.co.uk]

Marchmont Tall is a single-style condensed semiserif typeface. [devicefonts.co.uk]

Ministry Condensed is a narrow variant of Ministry (2005), a sans serif modeled on the typeface introduced in 1933 by the British Ministry of Transport for use on road signage. [devicefonts.co.uk]

Rapino is a top-heavy, reverse-contrast, single-style display typeface in the vein of Strada (1967) and Zipper (1970). [devicefonts.co.uk]

Remarque is a heavy, single-style display typeface that likely references a cluster of designs from the 1960s and 1970s, such as Dreamline (Mecanorma, 1969). [devicefonts.co.uk]

Scorch is a heavy, wavy, single-style display typeface. [devicefonts.co.uk]

Supermarché is a single-weight, heavy sans serif that references Gill Kayo (Monotype, 1936). [devicefonts.co.uk]

Vertigram is a compressed sans serif available in a variety of weights, in upright and italic styles, with a choice of sharp or rounded outlines. [devicefonts.co.uk, devicefonts.co.uk].

Warminster is a flared serif typeface available in two solid widths, with the condensed supplemented by a Shaded variant. [devicefonts.co.uk]

Bold Monday added a monospaced variant to Rigby, a sans serif designed by Pieter van Rosmalen, started as a custom typeface developed for Dutch public broadcaster NTR and originally released for retail in 2023. The name is a play on RIBBI, an acronym for the traditional Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic palette that emphasizes a conceptual commitment to a minimal but practical set of styles. [boldmonday.com]

CubicType expanded the character set for Arugula, a stencil sans serif designed by David Jones, developed from found stencilling on the side of a case of rocket ammunition, and originally released in 2023. [drj11.itch.io]

CSTM Fonts published on Future Fonts an update to Zhivov, a multi-purpose typeface based on early Cyrillic graphics designed by Yury Ostromentsky and initially released in 2022. The new version unifies the character set (Extended Latin, Standard Cyrillic, and Old Slavonic scripts) and OpenType features of the typeface’s three styles. [futurefonts.xyz]

Delve Fonts reissued Blot Test, a Rorschach-inspired symbol font comprised of 52 ink blot glyphs, designed by Delve Withrington and originally released in 1999. [delvefonts.com]

Another Delve Fonts reissue is Cortina, a futuristic, modular typeface designed by Joachim Müller-Lancé and originally released in 2001. [delvefonts.com]

DSType finalized Habil, a pointed-pen calligraphic script referencing António Jacinto de Araújo’s Nova Arte de Escrever (1797), designed by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos, and originally published in 2024 as an early-access release. [dstype.com]

DSType also released a bold, dark, and striking evolution to Rigor and Rigor Ionic, a pairing of a grotesque sans and slab serif designed to bring together distinct historical sources into a cohesive system, designed by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos, originally published in 2024 as early-access releases. These families were updated with the heavyweights Rigor XL and Rigor Ionic XL, each available in three optical sizes. [dstype.com]

FaireType updated with matching italic styles Octave, a revival by Maxime Gau of an Elzevir/French Oldstyle typeface originally designed by Théophile Beaudoire and used in the book Histoire de La Musique en Russie (1898) [archive.org]. Octave was originally released in 2022. [fairetype.com]

Good Type Foundry reissued Kosmos, a modular typeface originally released in 2022, as a variable font whose weight axis controls the thickness of the horizontal lines. [goodtypefoundry.com]

Gruppo Due expanded to five weights G2 Erika, a condensed sans serif designed by Moritz Appich and originally released in 2021 as a single-weight proportional & monospaced pair. [gruppo-due.com]

Huy! Fonts revamped Ultramarina, a display serif typeface halfway between nineteenth century display wood letters and the American grotesk sans-serif of the early twentieth, designed by Juanjo López and originally released in 2011. The redrawn version also features an expanded character set. [juanjez.com]

LettError expanded the character set for LTR Very Bauble, a Tuscan-coded display typeface that uses advanced interpolation between five designs to orchestrate intensifying ornamentation along a variable ‘serif’ axis, designed by Erik van Blokland and originally released in 2024. [letterror.com]

Olga Umpeleva published on Future Fonts an update to Heaven can wait, a pseudo-pixel typeface initially released in 2024, inspired by the embroidered title sequence for Ernst Lubitsch’s eponymous film. The new version expands Latin and Cyrillic coverage to support more languages. [futurefonts.xyz]

Optimo updated Dada Grotesk, a sans serif based on Aurora Grotesk (Wagner & Schmidt, ~1908) originally designed by Gaël Etienne and deValence for the 2005 Dada exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and initially released for retail in 2007. The current version was completly redrawn and completed with a new range of weights going from Light to Super, with a new multi-script version covering the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts distributed as Dada Grotesk Pan. [optimo.ch]

Sumotype published on Future Fonts an update to Fuga, a hybrid sans serif typeface designed in order to explore the principles of the broad nib pen in a contemporary context, designed by Oscar Guerrero Cañizares and intially released in 2021. The new version features italic styles for four of the typeface’s eight weights. [futurefonts.xyz]

TypeType Foundry expanded the character set for TT Interphases Pro, a neo-grotesque sans designed for user interfaces and originally released in 2019. The design credits for the new version include Pavel Emelyanov, Marina Khodak, Antonina Zhulkova, Toma Streltsova, Alexander Smirnov, Kseniya Karataeva, Nadezhda Polomoshnova, and Nadyr Rakhimov. [typetype.org]

Victoria Rushton published on Future Fonts an update to Kadabra, a Spencerian script typeface inspired by the work of calligrapher Jean Larcher (1947–2015), developed by Victoria Rushton from a design by Dai Foldes and initially released in 2021. [futurefonts.xyz]