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Recent releases #16 (Nov 6, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Updates and expansions:

From September: Central Type released Drat, an octagonal slab serif designed by Mark Butchko.


In other news:

Recent releases #15 (Oct 30, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

DSType added a section for early release typefaces. The typefaces featured, all designed by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos:

Updates and expansions:


Catching up with a few releases:


In other news:

Recent releases #14 (Oct 22, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Dalton Maag has debuted the Recast Collection, an initiative to produce faithful revivals of classic typeface designs. The initial set on offer includes:

To celebrate the foundry’s 30th anniversary, Typofonderie released five new typefaces:


Catching up with releases from the past few weeks/months.

MuirMcNeil released three new typefaces designed by Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil:

Other releases:


In other news:


P.S. Atlas of Type has just reached a new power of ten! The Atlas now features 10,000+ typefaces, more than 500 of which were released this year alone.

Recent releases #13 (Oct 15, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Radek Łukasiewicz launched the RadLuka type foundry, offering:


On to the obligatory catch-up section.

Back in September, Tekio released three prototypes by Jan Estrada-Osmycki:

Other earlier releases:


In other news:

Recent releases #12 (Oct 9, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

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


In other news:

Recent releases #11 (Oct 1, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Dinamo extended Diatype into a global type family, covering several writing systems:

Earlier in September, CoType released the Lock collection designed by Mark Bloom and Diana Ovezea, which explores the balance between broad-nib calligraphy and industrial design. (Despite having added it to the directory, it seems I accidentally omitted it from the weekly news.)


In other news:

Recent releases #10 (Sep 25, 2024)

Back from vacation with a look at the type releases of the past two weeks.

Blaze Type has a series of releases and updates:

CAST have released a collection of modernist typeface revivals named Alfabeti Modernisti. The collection includes:

Ivy Foundry has a new website to showcase Jan Maack’s typefaces. New releases include:

Delve Fonts added a section called Procepts for experimental and in-progress fonts. The current offering includes:

Throughout August, Store Norske Skriftkompani released a few typefaces, all designed by Arve Båtevik:

Capitalics released in the past few weeks:

Still in the late August to early September ballpark:


Other things that are new:

On the website, I’ve added a tag for typefaces with minisites.

Recent releases #9 (Sep 10, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Timothy Donaldson launched the Shapes for Cash foundry, operating from Cornwall, United Kingdom. The initial offering includes:

Recent releases #8 (Sep 4, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Earlier in August:


To watch & read:

Recent releases #7 (Aug 27, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Jessica Walsh established a new type foundry named Type of Feeling. The initial offering includes typefaces by several designers:


On the website, I’ve added a new tag called Design process. It lists all typefaces for which a link with background information is available. (More such links to be added soon.)

I’ve also implemented sorting by column for to all tables on the website.

Recent releases #6 (Aug 20, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Along with Joc, Type-Ø-Tones has also soft-launched this August:


In other news: A font with built-in syntax highlighting, a clever use of color font technology.

On the website, I’ve added a new facet to navigate typefaces and foundries: Typefaces by distributor and Foundries by distributor.

Pro tip: like with other lists on the website, you can use the Roll dice button in the top-right corner for some surreptitious serendipity. If you’re on a desktop device, hold down the Ctrl key (Windows) or Command key (MacOS) while clicking to open the random link in a new tab rather than navigating away.

Recent releases #5 (Aug 13, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

In other news:

Recent releases #4 (Aug 6, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Missed it the first time around: ALT.tf released ALT Klarinet, a stencil sans by Giulia Boggio, at the beginning of July.


In other news, Letterform Archive launched a Kickstarter campaign for reprinting the sold-out W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design by Bruce Kennett. The campaign reached its funding goal in less than a week.

In the Atlas, the new Chromatic type tag collects more than two hundred typefaces that can produce multi-color effects using color font technology, or by layering separate styles or variable font instances.

Recent releases #3 (Jul 30, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Acknowledgments: some news from this edition via Typecache, Proof&Co..


In other news: I’ve added a new tag on the website for Typewriter fonts, collecting around fifty typefaces inspired by fonts available to typewriters, modeled by the technical constraints imposed by the medium, or evoking the physical appearance of typewritten text.

Also, a shuffle from Type Atlas to Atlas of Type for a modicum of disambiguation from Ondrej Jób’s ongoing typo-photographic project, with apologies for lack of due diligence.

Recent releases #2 (Jul 23, 2024)

A look at the type releases of the past week.

Recent releases #1 (Jul 16, 2024)

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Type Atlas news! As with everything on the website, this will probably go through a few iterations. For now, keeping it on the shorter side.

Here are some typeface releases from the past week:

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