Recent releases #12 (Oct 9, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

• Black Foundry released Julia, a cursive typeface designed by Gaëtan Baehr.
• Blackletra released Drummond, a serif typeface designed by Emerson Eller based on matrices for a beautiful face, sixteenth century French in style, resembling but not the same as the Median Romain used by Garamont from the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.
• Blast Foundry released Bizzarri, a serif typeface taking cues from vintage car aerodynamics designed by Diana Ovezea, after it graduated from Future Fonts.
• Brandon Nickerson released BN Hellmade, an interpretation of ITC Honda (ITC, 1970).
• Commercial Type updated Terza, a text typeface in three modes designed by Greg Gazdowicz, with a Display family adapted from Terza Reader.
• Still by Commercial Type, Pennsylvania, a typeface by Christian Schwartz originally released with Font Bureau in 2000, was updated and expanded by Inga Plönnigs with sans and slab serif counterparts, and is now available in the Vault.
• Also making a quiet appearance in the Commercial Type Vault is Popular, a slab serif originally designed by Schwartz in 2004, updated for release by TienMin Liao.
• Contrast Foundry released CoFo Holz, a serif typeface inspired by wood type, designed by Nikita Sapozhkov (via Typecache).
• Lechuga Type reissued Trust Sans, a humanist sans designed by Antonio Mejía Lechuga, originally published with Latinotype in 2019.
• Letters from Sweden released Tid, an intepretation of Times New Roman (Monotype, 1932) by Göran Söderström and Stefania Malmsten (via Typecache).
• LiebeFonts released LiebeHeide Fineliner, the vector version of Ulrike Rausch’s LiebeHeide bitmap color font.
• Lineto released LL Sinaloa, originally designed by Rosmarie Tissi in 1972, along with a variation named LL Sonora. These revised digitizations were created by Tissi in collaboration with Céline Odermatt.
• Olga Umpeleva updated the pseudo-pixel typeface Heaven Can Wait with Bold and Bold Italic weights.
• Overlap Type released Parch, a variable font inspired by the deterioration of vinyl signs in the California sunshine, designed by Kel Troughton.
• P22 has a new website, selling fonts from Hamilton Wood Type and the Lanston Type Company, as well as from its own P22 Type Foundry. (I’ll be adding the typefaces to the Atlas soon.)
• Plain Form updated Petit Frère, a sans serif designed by Lucas Descroix, with matching italics.
• Superior Type released Svatopluk, a sans serif designed by Vojtěch Říha.
• Tipografies released Glucosa, a condensed sans designed by Jordi Embodas and Gerard Sierra (via Typecache).
• TypeType released TT Biersal, a typeface inspired by a German poster from the ’30s, designed by Marina Khodak and Alina Gabidulova.
• Dương Trần released on Future Fonts the initial version of Thow, a workhorse serif taking cues from transitional and modern faces.
• Zetafonts updated Bogart, a Cooperesque typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro with a range of condensed weights, as well as an initial version of Bogart Arabic designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Aziz Bouyabrine.
• Zetafonts also updated Barnum, a Clarendon typeface by Pancini, with matching italics.

Catching up: Earlier in September, Manic Type released Banger by Jamie Chang, a thorny, prickly, and potentially explosive blackletter.

In other news:

• Slanted’s Yearbook of Type #7 is available for pre-order, with the release scheduled for November 2024.
• Also on pre-order is Plain Text, a a printed publication for exploratory type design from Plain Form.
• From Unit Editions, Woman at Work (ed. Adrian Shaughnessy), a book dedicated to the work of Margaret Calvert, a pioneer of design for public service, a groundbreaking typographer and recipient of this year’s New York Type Directors Club Medal, is currently gathering backers.
• Over on Kickstarter, Tim Brookes is crowdfunding Endangered Alphabet Calligraphy: Saving Culture Through the Art of Writing.