Recent releases #28 (Feb 6, 2025)
Almarena Foundry released Joyse, a single-style geometric sans with 70s influences designed by Jérémie Gauthier.
Atypical released Luxurious, a display serif initially designed by George Triantafyllakos for the Athens-based design studio Another Practice. Available in a single weight with support for the Latin and Greek scripts.
Blaze Type released Narri, a display typeface inspired by the dancing shapes of flames, designed by Elsa Drevous. The system is created with curvy lines, strong inverted contrast and sharp endings, resulting of organic calligraphic shapes.
Brandon Nickerson released BN Ventura, a bold, condensed display sans with curved diagonals. Straight-edged alternate letterforms are also available.
Commercial Type published to the foundry’s Vault section a first version of Jargon, a condesend flared serif with a large x-height designed by Thomas Bouillet. Expanded to seven weights from a single condensed style of Tandem, the designer’s graduation project at Type]Media 2020, Jargon is influenced by Dutch newspaper types, with italic styles referencing François Ganeau and Roger Excoffon’s Vendôme (Fonderie Olive, 1951).
DSType released the initial version of Verbo, a refreshing fusion of pure geometry and subtle warmth, reinterpreting the disciplined precision of Bauhaus typefaces through a humanist lens
, designed by Dino dos Santos. Along with a set of eight weights and their corresponding italic styles, the family includes Verbo XL, a heavy display version with an increased x-height.
F37 Foundry published a first version of F37 Club, a display typeface that draws inspiration from sound waves and vibrations, bringing rhythm to every letter
, designed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida. The typeface’s construction through composited overlapping shapes evokes the optic effect used for Electric Circus (~1960).
Heavyweight Type released Animo, a display typeface inspired by Spanish vernacular lettering, designed by Jan Horčík and Arnaud Chemin. Since much of the overall work was created during the pandemic and lockdown, the first use of the font was on a large flag that was displayed facing the street to encourage passersby, already sort of tired of not being able to function normally.
Animo comes in eleven widths, in solid and outline styles for chromatic layering.
Resistenza released Squadra, a squarish sans serif influenced by Eurostile (Nebiolo, 1962), designed by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco González.
Sharp Type released Record, a sans serif inspired by the futuristic aesthetics of the 1980s designed by Johan Mossé and Quentin Berthelot of Parisian studio Image Format. Available in a distinctively retro-futuristic variant called Record Laser and a more conventional counterpart called Record Disc. Specific design references include Antique Olive Nord (Fonderie Olive, 1959) and Serpentine (VGC, 1972).
Tiro Typeworks added two new families to the foundry’s collection of Indic script fonts designed by John Hudson and Fiona Ross, a project started in 2012 as a commission from Harvard University Press. The italic styles for these families were designed by Kaja Słojewska and Paul Hanslow of Tandem Type.
Tiro Malayalam is available in two orthographic flavors: the standard fonts supporting the traditional orthography for Malayalam, Sanskrit, and Pāli texts, and the ‘R’ fonts supporting the simplified, reformed orthography for Malayalam introduced in the early 1970s
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Tiro Sinhala features a design informed by the conventions of 19th Century metal types, but particularly inspired by handwritten and engraved lettering of that period, reflecting the transition from Sri Lankan palm leaf manuscripts to writing with European pens
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Type Du Nord released Yolker, a typeface designed by Libbie Bischoff to look like eggs just dropped into a pan
, with the letters occupying approximately the same area. Yolker was originally shown in June 2021 as part of the designer’s 52 Fonts Project. The typeface is also available in a counterless variant.
Typotheque added to Zed, the global type system designed by Peter Biľak and released last year, a set of icons designed by Ondrej Jób. Comprised of more than two thousand symbols, Zed Icons features variation axes for weight, optical size, and roundness.
Black Foundry released initial versions for five display typefaces designed by Gaëtan Baehr. The typefaces are single-style, uppercase-only, and share a set of variation axes to distort the letterforms, enabling the creation of novel text effects. This is showcased with Tavern, a web tool that composes multi-line wavy text by applying the appropriate axis values to each letter.
Genepi is a flared typeface with Art Nouveau accents, inspired by the lettering on the signs at the Tavern on the Green restaurant in New York City.
Absinthe is a blobby typeface that draws its inspiration from the free-spirited, vibrant energy of the 1960s hippie era
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With a similar structure, Spritz is defined not by its filled forms but by the ethereal silhouettes its letters cast, leaving the characters themselves transparent and open to interpretation
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Jack is an ultra-heavy, space-filling, quasi-monospaced design with simplified letterforms.
Amaretto is a serif typeface which, along with the regular capital letters, offers an alternative experimental set where circles seamlessly integrate into the letterforms
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Storm Type updated Hercules, a serif typeface of Modern/Scotch influence designed by František Štorm and originally released in 2005, with additional weights, optical sizes, as well as an (upcoming?) sans serif companion. The collection is now known as Hercules Neo.
Fabrizio Schiavi expanded the character set for Seitu, a geometric sans serif informed by Futura and Gill Sans and inspired by the Coop logo (Bob Noorda, 1985), to support the Cyrillic script.
Love Letters updated on Future Fonts Optic, a heavy, squarish display typeface with a large x-height and softened outlines, designed by Sebastien Sanfilippo and initially released in 2023. The new version features improved kerning and outlines, as well as an expanded Latin character set.
Tipografies updated Glucosa, a condensed sans with slight modulation and roundness designed by Jordi Embodas and originally released in October 2024, with a metrically-compatible display counterpart. Glucosa Display features increased overall contrast and a combination of fully-rounded and sharp details.
DJR updated Ottavio, a dynamic humanist sans informed by cycling, with lighter weights and overall improvements in contrast and spacing. Ottavio was originally designed by David Jonathan Ross for Caterina Piatti (of Reber 41) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of her great-grandfather Ottavio Bottecchia’s victory in the 1924 Tour de France.
Inga Plönnigs published on Future Fonts an update to Zetkin, a sans serif typeface informed by Venus (Bauer, 1907), available in six weights supplemented by a single-weight wide style, all with matching obliques. The new version features overall improvements and a recalibrated Medium weight.
James Plattner published on Future Fonts the finalized version of Bitzer, a serif typeface that selectively observes and breaks the established rules of Latin flat brush calligraphy
, originally released in 2024. The new version includes optical size axis, as well as improvements to spacing and letterforms for setting text at smaller sizes.
Muhittin Güneş has a new foundry website and a streamlined catalog consisting of new and updated typefaces:
Amnes, the newest release, is a neo-grotesk sans available in two flavors, one solid, and the other using a stylized inktrap motif.
Originally released in 2020 and updated for the launch, Ranua is a previous exploration of inktraps as an aesthetic device in a sans serif typeface.
Gronland is a sans serif inspired by Swiss public transport signages, NYC way finding systems
, originally released in 2021.
Bugrino is a display sans serif with a distinctive combination of smooth and structured elements
, influenced by FF Blur (FontFont, 1992) and Huit (VGC, 1972) and originally released in 2022.
Olten is a single-weight display serif with a Didone structure, originally released in 2022. The typeface’s distinctive letterforms emerged from an exploration of the lowercase ‘a’, whose three alternate variants served as the model for the entire design.
Nergiz is a single-weight, high-contrast calligraphic display serif with dripping terminals, originally released in 2023.
In other news:
- Good news from Elliot Jay Stocks: the Fine Specimens book, originally publicized through a Kickstarter campaign, is getting published next spring by Quarto.
- The Alphabettes collective have been posting short, multilingual reviews of typefaces released in 2024.