Recent releases #16 (Nov 6, 2024)
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- Brandon Nickerson released BN Binder, a blocky display typeface based on a VCG specimen from the ’70s.
- CAST released Sorella, a typographic adaptation by Luis Castellón of the lettering produced by Angela Baroni for Beatae Mariae Virginis Officium (1740, Venice) (via Typecache).
- Daytona Mess published on Future Fonts a first version of Transept, a dot-matrix typeface designed by Anne–Dauphine Borione.
- DJR released Lentiform, a Lombardic typeface inspired by a plaque at the Leeds Industrial Museum, designed by David Jonathan Ross as the October offering of the Font of the Month Club.
- TipoType released Formiga, a humanist sans designed by Lucas Pozzobon (via Identifont).
Updates and expansions:
- A2-Type updated to seven weights GB., a typeface extrapolated from two letters printed in a Morgan Press Type catalogue and incorporating wood type and early sans serifs, originally designed by Henrik Kubel in 2022.
- East of Rome updated Umiak, an interpretation by Lewis McGuffie of Corinna (Berthold, 1904) and its ’70s revival ITC Korinna, with an extended character set and a separate monospaced version.
- Lift Type added Bouuuuuh Screamer to the Bouuuuuh anthology of all-caps, comics-inspired typefaces that’s only available for a month each year around Halloween, free of charge.
- Lineto consolidated the LL Ruder Plakat collection designed by Hans-Christian Pulver, Anatole Couteau, and Arve Båtevik into their retail catalog. The collection is now comprised of the LL Ruder Plakat family in solid and outline styles, a compressed style named LL Ruder Plakat Maxi, and the variable LL Ruder Plakat Var with axes for controlling the vertical metrics. The foundry also published Emil Ruder: a collaboration with the industry, an essay by Tan Wälchli and Cornel Windlin that provides new details on the historical sources for the design.
From September: Central Type released Drat, an octagonal slab serif designed by Mark Butchko.
In other news:
- Abyme published Essential forms: a survey of lettering standards by Charles Mazé, a companion text to the typeface Axo.
- An interview with the researchers of the Missing Scripts Project on the type.today blog: “A fish would design an O differently”.
- At the Writing as Visual Experience conference, David Březina’s presented Structural analysis of the visual appearance of scripts. More talks available on the WAVE website.
- New from the Letterform Archive, NKF: Piet Zwart’s Avant-Garde Catalog for Standard Cables, 1927–1928 is the facsimile of a Dutch design classic.
- Also keep an eye for a series of 20th-century type specimen facsimiles featuring designs by Lucian Bernhard, Aldo Novarese, and Roger Excoffon, to be published later this year.
- Spotted in the bookstore: Pedro Arilla’s guide to evaluating typefaces, ¿Por qué es buena esta tipografía? Evaluación anatómica y contextual, published earlier this year by Campgràfic.