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A look at the type releases of the past week. (Now with some corrections and additions.)
Earlier in December 2024, the foundry released Fliper, another geometric sans by Machalski that provides rotated letterforms via stylistic sets.
Céline Hurka released Idyll, a set of decorated capital letters and floral ornaments inspired by Tuscany.
DSType finalized the text family from the Pulso collection designed by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos, first made available in 2024 as an early-access release in four optical sizes. The text family is available in Latin-only and Latin/Greek/Cyrillic multiscript packages as Pulso and Pulso Pro, respectively. Across the collection, upright styles are paired with two sets of italics and are available in three grades for finer adjustments to the typographic color.
Positype released Overture, an interpretation of the types of Giambattista Bodoni designed by Neil Summerour. It’s the designer’s second engagement with the source material, following Donatora in 2004. Overture features italic styles with three different slants (Adagio, Andante, and Allegro), and is available in three optical sizes.
Sudtipos released KWINC Grotesk in collaboration with New York design studio Karlssonwilker. Loosely inspired by vernacular dimensional letters available in home improvement stores
, it’s used as the studio’s house typeface (via Typecache).
Typeji released on Future Fonts the initial version of Paragraf, a serif typeface with high-waisted structures, a tall x-height, and slightly narrow proportions
designed by TienMin Liao.
In other news:
- Lessons from letters, Pooja Saxena on the richness of Indic signage and her decade-long work on the India Street Lettering archive.
- Chopstick Sleeves as Emissaries of Japanese Typography and Culture, designer and educator Angie Wang
deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the [Letterform] Archive
.
- Face/Interface 2025 brings together
scholars, designers, engineers, and technologists to explore global type design, book design, interface design, and human-computer interaction
. The conference takes place this Friday & Saturday in Stanford, California. In-person seats are sold out but the livestream can be joined free of charge.
- The latest pamphlet from Poem Editions, Philly Hands is a
concise but in-depth survey description of Philadelphian street penmanship, written and photographed by François Chastanet
.
- Manifold / Colin Sackett, publishing 1984–2024
details and illustrates the ideas and methods that contributed to over a hundred and fifty individual projects, by way of page plans, annotation, and quoted and explanatory texts
from the prolific Uniformbooks founder. The individual pages can be accessed as PDF files, with the physical book coming later this January. So, so good.
Kicking off the new year with a look at the type releases of the past week and a half — now with images!
Tiro Typeworks launched a new website, now offering a canonical destination for the foundry’s designs, among which some new and updated typefaces:
Euphemia is a thorough reworking and extension of Ross Mills’ original design, fulfilling his intent for a harmonised Latin and Canadian Syllabics typeface
, with contributions from John Hudson and Paul Hanslow.
Earlier in December 2024:
In other news:
- Dusting off the blackletter types (77min video), a presentation by Dan Reynolds for the Herb Lubalin Lecture Series.
This hour-long primer for typical blackletter styles—especially those that unfolded in German-speaking Europe, where there was the most experimentation—will make those letterforms feel more familiar and show which traditions might be most ripe for revival in the 21st century.
- A new tag on the Atlas of Type website collects typefaces by women and non-binary designers, based on a living document started in 2022 by María Ramos and published in various forms by Alphabettes, such as their yearly round-ups for 2022 and 2023.
- I’m also slowly reviewing for accuracy the list of the almost 800(!) typefaces released in 2024. Wish me coffee!
A look at the type releases, updates, and expansions of the past week.
- DJR released Fit U&lc, an update of the all-caps, space-filling Fit (2017) that adds lowercase characters, designed by David Jonathan Ross as the November offering of the Font of the Month Club.
- En Travaux released Peridia, a display serif whose
bold proportions and tight spacing allow for playful and mycelian interconnections between letters
, designed by Alec Vivier-Reynaud.
- F37 Foundry released the initial version of F37 Morta, a Latin and Naskh-style Arabic pixel typeface designed by Shaqa Bovand.
- Font Spectrum released Silver Coil, a seamlessly-animating striped typeface designed by Edgar Walthert.
- Lineto released LL Kleisch, a serif based on typefaces from Van Djik, Kis and Fleischmann, designed by Chiachi Chao to complement old-style CJK typefaces.
- Off Type released OT Pergamon, a
spiritual heir
to Papyrus (Letraset, 1983), designed by Valerio Monopoli.
- Order Type released Haltung, a contemporary neo-grotesk designed by Joe Moore.
- Pizza Typefaces released Alch, a single-weight typeface with blackletter-inspired details, available in two styles (serif and spiky sans), designed by Adrien Midzic (Correction: the typeface was in fact released earlier this year).
- PSTL updated Scale, a sans serif designed by Mark Caneso, with matching italic styles.
- US Graphics Company (formerly known as Berkeley Graphics) released the second version of Berkeley Mono, a coding typeface designed by Neil Panchal.
Frere–Jones Type is adding to their library expanded and re-engineered versions of some classic designs by Tobias Frere–Jones originally released with Font Bureau. The initial batch of updated typefaces includes:
Other additions to the Frere–Jones Type website:
- Cafeteria (1993), a freeform sans.
- Epitaph (1993), a revival of the eponymous type from around 1880.
- Niagara (1994), a serif that
recalls the crisp, elegant geometry found in some of the best American styles from the 1930s and 1940s
.
- Asphalt (1995), a heavy sans inspired by Antique Olive Nord (Fonderie Olive, 1959).
- Citadel (1995), a condensed serif with solid and inline styles.
- Pilsner (1995), a blocky typeface inspired by the
roman design wearing blackletter-like clothes
of a beer label.
- Hightower (1996), a take on the fifteenth-century Venetian roman.
- Grand Central (1998), a serif following the original signage type of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City, itself an interpretation of Louis Perrin’s “caractères augustaux” (1846).
- Interstate Mono (2000), the monospaced version of Interstate.
Smuss Type Kiosk also has an updated catalog on the foundry’s re-engineered website, including new designs from William Stormdal. The typefaces are:
In other news:
Thats’s all for this year, see you in 2025!
A look at the type releases, updates, and expansions of the past week.
- Bold Monday released Merwede, a uniwidth text serif that synthesizes diverse influences, designed by Titus Schulz and shaped by his experience as a book designer.
- Brandon Nickerson released BN Boxer, an interpretation of Square (Mecanorma, ~1972).
- Bureau Brut released on the newly-redesigned foundry website a condensed width for Round, originally designed in 2021, as Round Condensed.
- Carter & Cone released Skia CC, an update of Skia, the variable font avant la lettre designed by Matthew Carter for Apple in 1994 (via Typecache).
- Collletttivo released Aujournuit, a single-weight serif in multiple widths designed by Teo Gaudet.
- Commercial Type released Place, designed by Julien Priez as a
wide serif typeface focusing on beauty and elegance
, featuring both roman and blackletter capitals.
- East of Rome released Kalev,
a take on the architectural idealism of twentieth century Estonian sans serif type
designed by Jaan Rõõmus, Ana Sanikidze, and Fred Wiltshire.
- Feliciano Type relesed Acceptera, a contemporary sans that
draws heavily from the Swedish functionalist movement, particularly the modernist principles showcased at the groundbreaking 1930 Stockholm Exhibition
, designed by Mário Feliciano.
- Formagari released Cedrat, a serif with an upright style based on the “Les Hollandaises” typefaces shown in Berthier & Durey’s Spécimen de caractères (1895) and an italic that draws from the likes of Times and ITC Caslon 223, designed by Emmanuel Besse in three optical sizes.
- FredsFonts updated Amalgam, a bubbly typeface with overlapping characters designed by Fred Wiltshire, with an extended character set and an axis for looseness.
- GarageFonts reissued Archive, a segmented-display modular typeface originally designed by Pieter van Rosmalen in 2000, along with a new halftone variant named Archive Matrix.
- Giulia Boggio released a beta version of Atlas Mono, a monospaced Didone with an upcoming proportionally-spaced counterpart.
- Luis Bandovas updated Subito, a geometric sans influenced by ITC Avant Garde Gothic (ITC, 1970) and Century Gothic (Monotype, 1990), with a condensed width.
- Mark Simonson Studio added support for Korean to the Proxima Super Nova collection with Proxima Nova Hangeul, designed by lo-ol type (Noheul Lee, Loris Olivier).
- Optimo released Signa77, a subtly flared typeface originally designed by Team’77 for Bobst Graphic’s Lettre d’Or 1978 competition.
- Positype released Ace, a collegiate slab in seven widths designed by Neil Summerour.
- Production Type released an initial version of Cardinal Elite, the monospaced member of the Cardinal collection designed by Jean-Baptiste Levée.
- R9 Type+Design released Experimo, a display sans that juxtaposes round and rectangular shapes designed by Tana Kosiyabong.
- RadLuka released RL Wit, a serif typeface
drawing inspiration from the Renaissance epitaphs found on churches in the city of Wrocław
, designed by Radek Łukasiewicz.
- TipoType released Humant, a geometric sans
inspired by the iconic Bauhaus design movement
.
- Typeverything released two typefaces designed by Andrei Robu. Forta is a humanist sans in three widths across an extensive set of weights, while Grano is a geometric sans inspired by Block (Berthold, 1908).
- ZetaFonts expanded Claus, an interpretation of Stunt Roman (1930s) designed by Mario De Libero, to eight weights.
Flavia Zimbardi released three new typefaces in the Women in Type series:
- Corax, a high-contrast serif that
explores the italic construction in up-right letterforms, with calligraphic influences and an unexpected gothic twist
, designed by Júlia Lago.
- Gigio, a
friendly yet strong slab serif, inspired by comic books
designed by Ana Laydner.
- Profane, a display serif that
evokes a modern interpretation of 14th-century inscriptions found in the Metz Cathedral
, designed by Tassiana Nuñez Costa.
Fontwerk has a new, streamlined foundry website and is now offering full-featured font trials for its entire catalog.
Earlier in November Resistenza released Performa, a geometric sans with grotesque influences designed by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco González.
In other news:
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- Cantrell Type released Cantrell Grotesk, an interpretation of Phönix-Grotesk (Krebs, 1914) with a humanist slant, designed by Kevin Cantrell (via Proof&Co. Weekly).
- F37 Foundry released F37 Confusa, a single-weight, all-caps display typeface with merged letterforms, designed by Cecilia Erlich.
- Giulia Boggio released the initial version of DGM Fette, an interpretation of Breite fette Information (Klingspor, 1956).
- MuccaTypo released Hilbertus Gill, an interpretation of Albertus (Monotype, 1936) designed by Matteo Bologna.
- Sharp Type released Rosalie, a contemporary display serif inspired by a medieval mural in Guérande, France, designed by My-Lan Thuong.
- Zetafonts released Altro, a typeface that interpolates between a
humanist grotesque
and an old-style serif, designed by Francesco Canovaro and Mario de Libero.
Updates and expansions:
- Brandon Nickerson released BN Numa Pro, an evolution of BN Numa with more sharply defined features.
- DualType expanded the character set for Luska, a display typeface with Tuscan serifs inspired by wood type designed by Gen Ramírez and Zrinka Buljubašić.
- Ivy Foundry updated IvyBodoni, an
homage to the modern serif designs of the ’60s and ’70s
designed by Jan Maack, with a condensed width. Variable fonts with width and weight axes are also available.
- James Plattner updated Bitzer, a serif typeface that
observes and breaks the established rules of Latin flat brush calligraphy
, with several widths, an expanded character set, and a dual-axis variable font.
- Lineto released new versions of two designs by Cornel Windlin originally released in 1998. Pablo Desportes updated LL Supermax, an homage to Max Bill inspired by the letterforms used in three of his poster designs, while Minjong Kim updated LL Autoscape, a monospaced sans drawing from Monaco (Apple, 1984).
- Muk Monsalve added to Elmira, a family that comes as a sans and a pair of “loom” styles, a condensed width and an experimental variable font with a width axis.
- Teo Tuominen updated the contemporary serif typeface Vieno with matching italics for all weights.
- Kilotype updated Oldschool Grotesk, a sans serif originally designed by William Montrose in 2019, with metrics-compatible italics by Ignacio Casco Guijarro (via Typecache).
Catching up with releases from the previous weeks.
In November, Pangram Pangram launched a section for early-access typefaces on the foundry website. The initial offering includes:
- Valve, a
versatile typeface collection that blends grotesque, geometric, gestural, industrial, monospaced, and cursive sans serif styles into a unified, cohesive ensemble
designed by Valerio Monopoli, available in plain and stencil styles.
- PP Model, a typeface that
pays tribute to the world of plastic model kits, drawing inspiration from the iconic Japanese brand Tamiya
, designed by Caio Kondo, Francesca Bolognini, and Mathieu Desjardins.
- Lettra Mono, a monospaced serif typeface also designed by Francesca Bolognini and Mat Desjardins.
November also saw Double Dagger release Wince, a pixelated reverse-contrast sans.
In other news:
- For its 10th anniversary, the Alphabettes collective is preparing Alphabettes Soup: 2015–2025, a publication celebrating
a decade of feminist approaches to type research, design, and creative community-building
, due for September 2025 with Bikini Books. The collective is currently seeking fundraising to cover production costs.
- It takes heroism to live!, Michela Zoppi on
the female Futurist typographical experimentations with paroliberismo
.
- Earlier this year, Production Type revealed an exapanded, renewed Signes Archive, a project dedicated to the history of graphic design and typography originally located at the now-defunct signes.org [web.archive.org]. The new version includes research and commentary from historian and educator Michel Wlassikoff.
- Print Mag published 100 of the best book covers of 2024.
On the Atlas of Type website, I’ve added a tag that filters for early-access typefaces. I’ve also started gathering variable fonts with exotic axes, suggestions are greatly appreciated!
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- Arillatype.Studio released At Chrome, a
sharp, modern sans-serif font that captures the bright, intelligent, yet warm and breathing essence of present and future technology
designed by Pedro Arilla.
- Atipo released Nudica Mono, the monospaced counterpart to Nudica, a typeface released earlier this year.
- Bea Korsh released the initial version of Henmania, a display typeface
where ingrown strokes form torqued, forward-leaning stencils
.
- Black Foundry released Ampere, a sans serif designed by Ben Harley and Solenn Bordeau.
- Blackletra released Dorival UI, a uniwidth sans loosely inspired by DIN 1451 (1931) and optimized for user interfaces, designed by Daniel Sabino and Lucas Gini.
- Blaze Type released Eternal Collection, a display serif superfamily designed by Matthieu Salvaggio and Malo Haffreingue.
- Commercial Type published Williamson Italic, a condensed display slab serif designed by Paul Barnes, in the foundry’s early-access section, the Commercial Type Vault.
- Fuerte Type released Impura, a synthesis of the Blackletter genre designed by Fermín Guerrero.
- Nouvelle Noire released NN Arosa, a sans serif that
draws its inspiration from the charm and craftsmanship of classic Swiss tourism posters
, designed by Edgar Walthert.
- Pizza Typefaces released Campingo Indoor, a blocky, all-caps companion to Campingo designed by Adrien Midzic.
- Proof of Words released PoW Garnier, an interpretation of Joan M. Fleischmann’s types reshaped to the proportions of Times New Roman (Monotype, 1932), designed by Fanny Hamelin.
- Sudtipos released Gothalian, a reverse-contrast Blackletter inspired by Henry Brehmer’s types from the 1890s, designed by Alejandro Paul.
- Type of Feeling released Meraki, a serif typeface
inspired by the Greek feeling of pouring passion, creativity, and love into your work
, designed by Julio Zukerman (via Creative Boom).
- Weltkern released TWK Continental, a sans with diverse historical influences designed by Guillaume Besson, on the newly-redesigned foundry website.
Updates and expansions:
- Blackletra expanded Gal Gothic, a sans inspired by Franklin Gothic (ATF, 1904) designed by Daniel Sabino, with narrow and condensed widths.
- FredsFonts added italics and expanded the character set for Empress, a flared serif
derived from the lettering found around Hackney Village
, designed by Fred Wiltshire. The typeface was originally named Vilaage.
- Naipe Foundry updated Borogodó, a high-contrast sans designed by Álvaro Franca and Felipe Casaprima, with two additional weights.
- Zetafonts updated Blacker Pro, an editorial serif designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli, with axes for width, weight, and optical size.
Catching up:
In other news:
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- Blaze Type released Balete, a no-curves serif designed by John David Maza.
- Brandon Nickerson released BN Mitchel, a blocky display sans with irregular outlines.
- MuccaTypo released Seminario, an all-caps Art Nouveau flared serif designed by Matteo Bologna.
- MuccaTypo also released a second modernist all-caps typeface designed by Bologna, named Charlock.
- Paavola Type released PT Schimetrik, a neo-grotesque sans designed by Jani Paavola.
- Spaghetype published on Future Fonts the initial version of Pétanque, a
display sans serif with rational geometry and irrational pizzazz
designed by Pauline Fourest.
- The Designers Foundry released Slimak, a rounded display type influenced by 19th century fatfaces and featuring calligraphic details, designed by Karol Mularczyk.
- Also from TDF, Granda is a grotesk sans with a contrasted italic and a reverse-contrasted reclined style at opposite ends of the slant axis, designed by Radek Łukasiewicz.
- Working Title released Ovaal, an all-caps monospaced typeface designed by Luna Claes by repeating a single oval shape.
Updates and expansions:
- Counter Forms updated Herbik, a
warm, bouyant serif that explores the types of the Dutch Baroque, largely framed through the work of Miklós Kis
originally designed by Daniel Veneklaas in 2023, to five weights and matching italics (via Typecache).
- Element Type extended the Latin script coverage for Tuaf, an experimental typeface designed by İbrahim Kaçtıoğlu for very small sizes.
- Klim extended Martina Plantijn, an interpretation of Plantin designed by Kris Sowersby, to support Vietnamese, the first typeface in the foundry’s catalog to feature it.
- Linda Hintz expanded the character set for Tegner, a display typeface inspired by the lettering on a poster from 1911.
- Font Spectrum added static instances to Electric Blue, a conjoined-pixel typeface designed by Daniël Maarleveld and Edgar Walthert.
- Purple Haze, Font Spectrum’s other typeface on Future Fonts, similarly received static instances.
In other news:
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- 205TF released the Milling collection of machining typefaces designed by Tanguy Vanlaeys and published on a new, streamlined foundry website.
- 29Letters released 29LT Idris, an Arabic typeface in the Naskh calligraphic style designed by Pascal Zoghbi, with a Latin companion designed by Linda Hintz. Along with weight and contrast axes, the variable font includes an extension axis to
adjust the width of Arabic cups and baseline elongation, placing an Arabic calligrapher’s tool in the hands of modern digital typesetters
.
- Brandon Nickerson released BN Mishmash, a digitization of Kellie (~1970).
- Briefcase Type released BC Exalt, a serif with a flexible x-height blending influences of Caslon’s old styles and broad-nib calligraphy, designed by Filip Kraus.
- Eliott Grunewald released Harry, an interpretation of Too Much (VGC, 1974) (via Typecache).
- Fabio Haag Type released Aconchego, a geometric sans designed by Sofia Mohr to evoke the sensation of coziness.
- Lux Typo released Down, a sans inspired by vernacular lettering, designed by Greg Lindy.
- Mass Driver published on Future Fonts the initial version of MD Thermochrome, a dot-matrix typeface designed by Rutherford Craze.
- PFA Typefaces released Blei, a sans that evokes the distorsions introduced when stretching and squishing fonts, designed by Martin Aleith.
- Plau released Massima, an homage to Futura by Carlos Mignot.
- Tipotype released Morph, a collection of display sanses in a variety of stencil, inline and outline styles.
- Tunera released Choso, an ornament typeface inspired by the symbols that adorn the façades of houses from the Canary Islands, designed by Ariel Martín Pérez.
- Workhorse released Workhorse Gothic, an interpretation of condensed wood types by Adrian Kimball.
Updates and expansions:
- Playtype released VentiQuattro, an expansion to seven weights of a serif typeface originally designed by Jonas Hecksher in 2009.
- Production Type brought out of beta the typeface Mars, an interpretation of Venus (Bauer, 1907) designed by Alaric Garnier, expanded from the 2016 original to four widths across seven weights.
- Revolver has produced a ministe for the recently-released Airport typeface.
- Signal Type issued Exact, an interpretation of Times New Roman by Max Phillips, as a finalized retail typeface.
- Typearture updated Gimme, the color font designed by Arthur Reinders Folmer that packs a box full of toys and board games, with a new Mahjong style.
- Typozon updated Salvaje Display, a typeface inspired by the extraordinary appearance of birds-of-paradise designed by Cristian Vargas, for the launch of the new foundry website.
The Letters is a new foundry established by Mark Gowing in Syndey, Australia as a successor to Formist, from which it inherits the initial typeface offerings (via Proof&Co. Weekly).
Catching up with releases from the previous weeks:
In other news:
- Double Acts in Pop: An Incomplete Survey, a specimen book showcasing the full Commercial Type catalog, structured around an essay by journalist Molly Lambert, who was invited by co-founders Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz to
tease apart the dynamics of some of the most iconic pop duos to understand what made these celebrated double acts flourish or flop
.
- Speaking of catalog-spanning specimen books, Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024
provides a near-definitive anthology of the foundry’s remarkable story in print
.
- From Porto-based architect/publisher André Tavares, The Anatomy of the Architectural Book examines
approaches to structuring, constructing and designing architectural books and traces how they have changed over time
.
- In his presentation Stencil work: scenes in a history, Eric Kindel surveys
scenes of stencil work spanning six centuries, discussing and illustrating the stencil’s surprisingly varied use in the production of textual and graphic documents, marks, and messages
. Tip: Vimeo provides RSS feeds for channels, and Type@Cooper is an excellent addition to your feed reader.
- Erik van Blokland shares, from personal experience, advice on navigating type design contracts.
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- Alanna Munro released Stornoway, a sans serif with a contrast axis, on the newly-redesigned foundry website.
- Blaze Type released Rondette, an inline display sans with ’70s influences designed by Fabrizio Falcone.
- Also from Blaze Type, Intermedial Slab is a slab serif with a contrast axis designed by Karol Mularczyk.
- Dinamo released Otto, an ahistorical text serif evolved from the types of Miklós Kis, designed by Sam de Groot and Laura Opsomer Mironov and launched along with the eponymous illustrated book.
- Edition.studio released Phonk, a display typeface with Art Nouveau influences designed by Adrien Menard.
- Metis Foundry released MF Defrag, a modular dot-matrix typeface designed (probably, but not explicitly) by Simon Bent.
- NaN released NaN Rage, a “typographic universe” of seven matching typefaces that reference 19th-century wood types and early computer fonts.
- Order released Vanity, a display typeface inspired by New Jersey license plates, designed by Emily Klaebe.
- Positype released Boom Sans, a sans serif with an extensive range of widths and weights designed by Neil Summerour.
- PSTL released Hoss Round Slab, the latest in the collection designed by Mark Caneso that includes Hoss Sharp and Hoss Round.
- Revolver Type released Airport, an interpretation by Lukas Schneider of Matthew Carter’s alphabet for London Airport. A variant named Airport X provides a lower x-height.
- Serpentype released Piz Grotesk, an interpretation of mid-century Swiss type, designed by Silvio Meier and Nando Schmidlin.
- Sharp Type released Ceraph, an incised flared serif designed by Emma Piercy.
- TypeType released TT Gertika, a typeface inspired by lettering on an American poster from the late ’30s, designed by Antonina Zhulkova and Anastasia Pogorelova.
- W Type Foundry released Huemul Slab, an homage to Clarendon (Haas, 1953) and Rockwell (Monotype, 1933), designed by Diego Aravena.
Updates and expansions:
- Claus Eggers Sørensen updated the transitional serif Playfair with Sub-Saharan Latin characters.
- Compañía Tipográfica de Chile updated on Future Fonts Timáukel, a Dutch-taste-influenced serif by Raúl Israel, with a Black weight in upright and italic.
- Dương Trần updated Thow, a workhorse serif taking cues from transitional and modern faces, with four new weights.
- Extraset released ES Klarheit Grotesk Paneuro, an expansion of ES Klarheit Grotesk designed by Alex Dujet.
- Rosetta released Skolar Sans Hebrew, an expansion by Eran Ben Barak of Skolar Sans.
- Storm Type re-engineered Trivia Grotesk, an editorial sans originally designed by František Štorm in 2012, into a variable font with width and weight axes.
- Zetafonts updated Bakemono, the proportional-to-monospaced family designed by Francesco Canovaro, with matching italics.
Catching up: in October, Noir Blanc Rouge released Dolores, a slab serif designed by Bastien Sozeau.
Cool new things:
- GridType, an experimental type design tool by Katharina Nejdl,
inspired by historical grid-based type design with stencils, such as the Plaque Découpée Universelle from the 1870s – a single stencil that allows you to draw all the letters of the alphabet.
- All types of “a”, a
collection of peculiar forms of the Latin lowercase letter “a”
by David Březina.
- Katalog polskich etykiet zapałczanych, a catalog of over 1000 Polish matchbox labels by Dominika Federowicz.
A look at the type releases of the past week.
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:
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- A2-Type released No Parking, a display typeface by Henrik Kubel modeled after vernacular lettering found on a sidewalk in New York City.
- Blast Foundry released Big Issue, an editorial sans rooted in historical British grotesque type, designed by Barbara Bigosińska and Diana Ovezea.
- Blaze Type released Indecisive Sans and Indecisive Mono, the proportional and monospaced flavors of a geometric sans designed by Fred Wiltshire.
- Also from Blaze Type, Aman, a serif channeling Plantin (Monotype, 1913) and Times New Roman (Monotype, 1932), designed by Matthieu Salvaggio and Ferdinand Del Fabbro.
- Maxitype released Maligne, a geometric sans inspired by early 20th century sign painting, designed by Maximage and Isia Yurovsky.
- Pangram Pangram released Neue Corp, a sans by Maksym Kobuzan, Mat Desjardins, and Francesca Bolognini that combines features of Hamilton wood type and neo-grotesques such as Helvetica (Haas, 1957) and Univers (Deberny & Peignot, 1957).
- Sharp Type released Hauss and Raum, a workhorse sans and its inktrap-dented display variant, designed by Justin Sloane and Huw Williams.
- Sophia Tai released on Future Fonts the first version of Hetskelet, a typeface with a flared body and a sans inline.
- Storm Type released Populus, an
attempt at a more robust monolinear counterpart
to Areplos, a semi-serif designed by Jan Solpera with František Štorm.
- Grilli Type released GT Flaire, a humanist sans designed by Reto Moser with an axis that interpolates between monolinear and reverse-contrased, flared forms.
- Displaay released Season, a collection designed by Martin Vácha that interpolates between sans and serif.
DSType added a section for early release typefaces. The typefaces featured, all designed by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos:
- Habil, a pointed-pen calligraphic script referencing António Jacinto de Araújo’s Nova Arte de Escrever (1797).
- Pulso, an editorial serif currently featuring text styles.
- Rigor and Rigor Ionic, a grotesque sans and slab serif designed to bring together distinct historical sources into a cohesive system.
Updates and expansions:
- Detail released Norm No.15, the third member of the Norm collection, a systematic exploration of the sans serif genre by Makoto Kamimura.
- James Plattner updated the calligraphic serif Bitzer with six weights and a variable font.
- MuirMcNeil released TwoSix IO, a typeface designed by Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil, featuring inline and outline styles complementary to the foundry’s TwoSix family.
- The Northern Block released Nurom Next, a sans influenced by early grotesques, designed by Jonathan Hill and Tasos Varipatis as an evolution of Nurom (2017).
- Spaghetype rounded up Monstera, an Art Nouveau-inspired display typeface by Pauline Fourest, with an extended character set and a variable font that interpolates between the solid and the outline style for its Future Fonts graduation.
- Store Norske Skriftkompani updated Nora, a
remix and elaboration of lettering alphabets created by the industrial designer Nora Gulbrandsen
originally designed by Arve Båtevik in 2022, with additional weights and a variable font (via Typecache).
- Very Cool Studio published an update on Future Fonts for Gosh, a Eurostile/Microgramma-inspired sans by Kyle Benson.
- To mark the 101st anniversary of Italo Calvino’s birthday, Zetafonts extended the eponymous Calvino typeface with support for Arabic. Two faces derived from Calvino also received updates: Marcovaldo now has weights, and Visconte has optical sizes.
Catching up with a few releases:
In other news:
- Kelli Anderson’s Alphabet in Motion. An ABC Pop-up Book on How Letters Get their Shape blasted through its Kickstarter goal on its first day, and for good reason: the pop-up book and its companion publication look stunning.
- Tim Brown’s Flexible typesetting, originally published with A List Apart in 2018, is now available for free.
- Modern Pioneers in Typography and Design: Anna Simons, Edward Johnston, Rudolf von Larisch, F. H. Ehmcke by Inge Druckrey was published earlier this year with Edward Tufte’s Graphics Press. On November 10, Tobias Frere-Jones will be talking to the author in an event hosted by the Katherine Small Gallery in Boston, Massachusets.
- Elliot Jay Stocks’ Typographic & Sporadic and Proof&Co.’s The Weekly are two great type newsletters with a curated, narrative perspective on recent releases, among a variety of type-adjacent topics.
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- Altiplano released Citizen Grotesk Poster, a display sans designed by Raphaël Verona that
applies the methodical spirit characteristic of the International Style to move beyond the fantasy of purity, universalism, and neutrality
.
- Blaze Type released Systm, a modular / dot matrix typeface designed by Simon Helmstetter.
- Also from Blaze Type, Collapse is a condensed serif designed by Axel “Keussel” Andre, loosely inspired by the type used in the opening titles for Neon Genesis Evengelion.
- Brandon Nickerson released BN Sailor, a display typeface inspired by Adriana, a film typeface of unknown origin.
- Bretagne type foundry released Chantier, a slab serif designed by Lucas Le Bihan blending features from Egizio (Nebiolo, 1955) and type used in poster specimens housed at the Brittany Museum in Rennes.
- Lift Type released Melun, a geometric sans by Romain Oudin and Manuel de Lignières.
- Parachute released PF Grecia, a calligraphic serif by Panos Vassiliou that takes inspiration from Darley, a National Geographic map typeface designed by Charles E. Riddiford in the 1930s.
- Production Type released Paramount Rounded and Paramount Neo Rounded, the rounded counterparts of the two families from the Paramount geometric sans collection designed by Chi-Long Trieu in 2023.
- Schick Toikka added a text variant to Items, a contemporary typeface informed by
the pervasive serifs of the early digital period
, designed by Florian Schick and Lauri Toikka. Fonts are available in three widths: Items Text, Items Text Condensed, and Items Text Wide (via Typecache).
- Show Me Fonts released Marjoree, a uniwidth sans serif designed by Catalogtree and Bernd Volmer. Marjoree is available in monospaced and proportional spacing, and is supplemented by two modular display styles based on hexagon and pentagon tessellations.
- Simplebits released Hubano, a typeface inspired by lettering found on a Cuban cigar box, designed by Dan Cederholm.
- Skrr released Pompeji, a typeface inspired by graffiti on the walls of Pompeii, designed by Lisa Semrau.
- Synthview released Artford, a sans serif by Jan Tonellato.
- Tokotype released Frasa Display, the display counterpart of Gumpita Rahayu’s Frasa contemporary serif
with characteristics that arise from the charms of Caslon and a touch of transitional style
.
- XYZ Type released Plumbago, a monospaced display typeface by Zrinka Buljubašić, Travis Kochel, and Chris Skillern inspired by
Salt Lake City’s strict street grid and the style of lettering used for the streetcars that once ran on it
.
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:
- Alembert, a typeface by Jean François Porchez inspired by Bâtarde and Coulée scripts from 17th- and 18th-century France.
- Alyssa, a calligraphic typeface by Mark De Winne that
pays homage to the iconic ATF Florentine, and follows designer Mark De Winne’s deepening fascination with the work of lettering masters Oscar Ogg, Arthur Baker and Helmut Salden
.
- Aukio by Léo Guibert, a
high-contrast display typeface with details inspired by the calligraphic practice of the Nordic countries
, referencing designs such as Karl–Erik Forsberg’s Carolus and Paul Shaw’s Swedish Modern Set.
- Capek, a Blackletter sans-serif with sci-fi references, originally designed by Aurélien Vret in 2014.
- Zingiber, a
typographic distillation of Xavier Dupré’s handwritten style
.
Catching up with releases from the past few weeks/months.
MuirMcNeil released three new typefaces designed by Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil:
- Sans Norm, a mechanized companion to Sans Sans whose forms
refer to utilitarian twentieth century geometric designs like DIN 1451, Isonorm and OCR-A
.
- Ubu, a modular geometric type system.
- TwoSix, an adaptation of FF ThreeSix (FontFont, 2012) to the foundry’s Two Type system.
Other releases:
- Detail debuted Norm,
an ongoing study of grotesques as a visual phenomenon
by Makoto Kamimura. The first families in the collection are Norm No.6 and Norm No.11 (Summer 2024).
- F37 Foundry released F37 Atlantic, a typeface inspired by Herb Lubalin’s ITC Serif Gothic (ITC, 1972), designed by Rick Banks, Alfonso García, and Manuel von Gebhardi (Sept 2024).
- Lipton Letter Design has a new website to showcase Richard Lipton’s designs, the latest of which is Ellery, a display typeface
inspired by Oscar Ogg’s calligraphed book jackets from the ’40s for Atlantic/Little-Brown & Company
.
- LudwigType released Daphne, a version of Georg Salden’s Daphne (1970), possibly redrawn and/or reingeneered by Ludwig Übele (Sept 2024).
- Mint Type released Scuto Sans and Scuto Soft, a pair of sans serifs designed by Oleh Lishchuk (Sept 2024).
- muccaTypo released Primissima, a display typeface by Matteo Bologna (date unknown).
- Range Left released Barbican, a typeface designed by Clément Cases, inspired by the eponymous brutalist landmark (Sept 2024).
- After releasing them through Type Network earlier this year, Reber R41 have added several new typefaces to their Aldo Novarese Font Collection: Donatello, Estro, Eurostile, Inglesi Allungati, Orlando, and Ritmo.
- Resistenza released Revolute, a stencil sans inspired by Resolut (Nebiolo, 1937) (Aug 2024).
- Studio Type published two new typefaces designed by Jo De Baerdemaeker as part of the Typo Belgiëque project. ST Toone, released in September, and the earlier ST Guust are both inspired by poster faces from the type collection of Fonderie Typographique A. Vanderborght & Dumont, a 19th century foundry in Brussels.
- Typografische released FH Oscar Pro, an typeface that expands on Fatish Hardal’s FH Oscar modeled on Akzidenz-Grotesk (Berthold, 1898) and Breite Grotesk (Bauer) (Oct 2024). Previously, Hardal published the contemporary serif FH Anorma (Aug 2024).
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.
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- DDOTT released Aether, the proportionally-spaced counterpart to Aether Mono designed by Dominik Thieme.
- Dinamo released Pelikan, an
an unpolished sans with a special unicase feature baked inside
, designed by Fabian Harb and Fabiola Mejía.
- DSType released Miura Slab, a slab serif counterpart to the Miura collection designed by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos.
- ECAL Typefaces released Arkbro, a
variable typeface based on strict geometric principles and proportions
designed by Noam Benatar (via Typecache).
- Kontour has a new website, and has released Datei Grotesk, a sans that contextualizes the
defining design features of legacy grotesque typefaces like Akzidenz, DIN 1451, Breite, Folio, Gerstner Programm, Haas Unica, Record Gothic, and Recta, among others
, designed by Sibylle Hagmann.
- Kostas Bartsokas published an update on Future Fonts for Canicule Display, with support for Greek.
- LettError released LTR Very Bauble, a display typeface increasing in ornamentation along a variable ‘serif’ axis, designed by Erik van Blokland.
- Out of the Dark released Play Extra, an extra-wide sans designed by Philipp Herrmann which began as a revival of Breite Fette Information (1956) (via Typecache).
- Signal published the in-progress Łucja, a typeface extrapolated by Max Phillips from a few letters of what was later identified as a Polish cast of Hermes-Grotesk (1911).
- Source Type released UN-11, Laurenz Brunner’s interpretation of the Selectric version of Univers, designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1966.
- Zetafonts expanded Swanstone by Mario de Libero to multiple weights, with matching italics and a Cyrillic character set.
- Also from Zetafonts, Milligram, a homage to Akzidenz-Grotesk (1898) designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, was updated to a range of five widths, support for Greek, and the tight-and-touching Milligram Macro version.
Radek Łukasiewicz launched the RadLuka type foundry, offering:
- RL Aqva, a display typeface inspired by
iconic humanist typefaces and the golden era of phototypesetting
, taking cues from the likes of Revue (1968), Marvin (1969), or ITC Busorama (1970).
- RL Limo, a typeface that
borrows influences from Art Nouveau typography and draws inspiration from iconic typefaces like ITC Benguiat
.
- RL Sezon, a
Grotesk type family inspired by early examples of the genre
.
On to the obligatory catch-up section.
Back in September, Tekio released three prototypes by Jan Estrada-Osmycki:
- Komuna, a fixed-width dot matrix typeface produced as a variable font.
- Dioda, a typeface based on the Radio Shack logo.
- Tekio Grotesk, an idiosyncratic sans
drawn on an eight point grid which makes its rhythm, vertical and horizontal dimensions highly organised
.
Other earlier releases:
In other news:
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:
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- Arillatype released At Umami, a rounded sans inspired by Japanese visual culture designed by Pedro Arilla and Julián Moncada.
- ArrowType published on Future Fonts an update to Kyrios, a
curious, slightly psychedelic blackletter family
designed by Stephen Nixon, to include a weight axis, Blackletter uppercase, and an extended character set.
- Brandon Nickerson released BN Kossell, an interpretation of a ’70s display typeface.
- Displaay released Booton, an uniwidth sans for user interfaces designed by Daniel Quisek.
- DJR released Job French Clarendon by David Jonathan Ross as the September offer of the foundry’s Font of the Month Club.
- Erkin Karamemet released EK Baumer Grotesk, a neo-grotesque sans designed in collaboration with Gregor Maria Sahl (via Typecache).
- Identity Letters updated the design of Glance Sans and Glance Slab, two stencil-like typefaces designed by Moritz Kleinsorge.
- Power Type released Artific, a sans serif designed by Teguh Arief.
- Skritur updated with matching italics Brito, a sans serif by Fañch Le Henaff, Yoann De Roeck, and Malou Verlomme originating from ’90s designs.
- Suitcase released Icona Serif, a neutral serif typeface designed by Tomáš Brousil to complement Icona Sans (via Typecache).
- TypeTogether reissued Chaco, a signage typeface originally designed by Rubén Fontana in 2008.
Dinamo extended Diatype into a global type family, covering several writing systems:
- Diatype Arabic, designed by Wael Morcos, Khajag Apelian, and Lana Abou Soufeh.
- Diatype Armenian, designed by Gor Jihanian.
- Diatype Cyrillic, designed by Olga Umpeleva.
- Diatype Devanagari, designed by Kimya Gandhi.
- Diatype Georgian, designed by Ana Sanikidze.
- Diatype Greek, designed by Panagiotis Haratzopoulos.
- Diatype Hebrew, designed by Yanek Iontef and Daniel Grumer.
- Diatype Latin, designed by Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, Elias Hanzer, Erkin Karamemet, Renan Rosatti, Andree Paat, and Đức Cao (Vietnamese).
- Diatype Thai, designed by Boom Promphan Suksumek.
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:
Back from vacation with a look at the type releases of the past two weeks.
- Atipo released Rawest, a geometric sans.
- Brandon Nickerson mantains the weekly cadence with BN Rambunk, an interpretation of Implode (1960s), and BN Danimal, a slightly slanted display sans.
- DJR released Forma DJR Mono, the monospaced counterpart to Forma DJR designed by Ruggero Magrí and David Jonathan Ross.
- East of Rome published on Future Fonts the initial version of Matka, a rustic display sans designed by Lewis McGuffie, as well as an update to the grotesk sans Kapow, changing its name to Tugev in the process.
- Emtype released Micrograph, a sans serif designed by Eduardo Manso.
- Extraset released ES Park, a slab serif designed by Xavier Erni.
- Francis Chouquet released Jazzman, a Midcentury-style unicase display typeface.
- Grilli Type released GT Pantheon, a sharp serif designed by Tobias Rechsteiner and Noël Leu.
- Interval Type released Factor A Mono, the monospaced companion to Factor A designed by Ilya Naumov.
- James Plattner published on Future Fonts the initial version of Bitzer, a condensed serif typeface informed by flat brush calligraphy.
- JTD updated on Future Fonts the condensed grotesk Enfilade by James Hultquist-Todd to a variable font.
- Lazydogs released LD Elly, a serif typeface by Bente Baseler (via Typecache).
- Luis Bandovas updated on Future Fonts the geometric sans Subito with an italic style.
- Luzi Type released Zeist, a geometric sans by Luzi Gantenbein.
- Mass Driver updated MD Nichrome, a typeface
referencing the typography of sci-fi paperbacks from the ’70s and early ’80s
designed by Rutherford Craze, with an extended character set and gothic alternate forms.
- OH no released Camelion, a humanist sans by Sandrine Nugue.
- Plau released Firula, a brush script typeface by Rodrigo Saiani (via Typecache).
- Poem released Nouveau Quellstift, the rounded version of Nouveau, designed by Jérôme Knebusch.
- Process Type added italics to Stratum 1 & 2, as well as an extended character set. Maria Doreuli and Egor Golovyrin designed the Cyrillic script and George Triantafyllakos the Greek. Eric Olson also designed a narrower variant of the typeface, available as Stratum 1 & 2 Condensed.
- R Typography released Montris Mono, the monospaced member of the Montris family designed by Rui Abreu (via Typecache).
- Sharp Type added a display variant to the Sharp Serif collection in the form of Sharp Serif Display, a stencil typeface designed by Lucas Sharp.
- Sudtipos released Cosmos Deco, an Art Deco sans designed by Edgar Capula.
- Tulsey Type released Chokecherry, a lively sans designed by Chris Skillern with support for Latin and Cherokee scripts.
- Typemates released Altona by Albert-Jan Pool, Julia Uplegger, and Antonia Cornelius. Julia Uplegger also designed Alison Head and Alison Text, which together with Altona form a superfamily of contemporary Didones.
- TypeType added a monospaced variant to TT Hoves Pro.
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:
- IvyBodoni, an
homage to the modern serif designs of the ’60s and ’70s
.
- IvySoft, an
unpretentious, rounded sans balancing work and play
.
Delve Fonts added a section called Procepts for experimental and in-progress fonts. The current offering includes:
- H-AND-S, a hand symbol typeface by Jean-Benoît Lévy of Studio AND.
- Hexcess, a condensed, grid-based hexagonal Blackletter by Delve Withrington.
- Feint, an variable font with a cipher axis in the form of a stencil sans, also by Delve Withrington.
Throughout August, Store Norske Skriftkompani released a few typefaces, all designed by Arve Båtevik:
Capitalics released in the past few weeks:
- ADHD, a variable font inspired by the work of Armin Hofmann.
- Acus, a contrasted sans inspired by hand-painted enamel signs.
- Realise, a Scotch Roman with octagonal details.
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.
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:
- Amadeo, a marker typeface with calligraphic brush qualities.
- Cowgirl, a light, reverse-contrast slab serif.
- Explorers, a collection of twenty metrics-compatible fatfaces.
- Hipsterpotamus, a chunky typeface without counters.
- Pointyhead, a thorny Blackletter design.
A look at the type releases of the past week.
- From Black Foundry, the alpha release (basic Latin character set) of Numero.02, a gothic sans by Solenn Bordeau referencing a historical American design. Bordeau also shares credit with Ben Hartley for Cæsura, a bold display serif.
- Blaze Type released Sizek, a display typeface by Sandro Bonomo that takes inspiration from digital glitches. Meanwhile Pahin, a calligraphic flared serif designed by Maksym Kobuzan, was expanded to three optical sizes.
- Brandon Nickerson released BN Pooly, a display typeface inspired by Rodger.
- Contrast Foundry published an update on Future Fonts for CoFo Meteor, a serif typeface by Anna Khorash and Liza Rasskazova in the vein of De Vinne.
- David Jonathan Ross updated Megabase as the August offering of the DJR Font of the Month Club.
- Delve Fonts released Peasy, a sans serif designed by Peter Cho.
- Linda Hintz updated Tegner on Future Fonts with small caps, a lowercase, and an extended character set.
- Anna Khorash published an update on Future Fonts for Invert, an experimental typeface that interpolates between shapes and counter-shapes.
- Lineto released LL Geigy Duplex VIP, a new addition to the LL Geigy collection designed by Robert Huber.
- Nondescript debuted Pearl on Future Fonts; a serif to be set at very small sizes designed by David Sudweeks.
- Type Forward released Em One, a geometric sans by Luboslav Boyanov, Mirela Belova, and Stan Partalev.
- Tightype published the expansion to six weights of Bull-5, a typeface designed by David Einwaller that references an unidentified typewriter font.
Earlier in August:
To watch & read:
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.
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.
A look at the type releases of the past week.
In other news:
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
.
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.
A look at the type releases of the past week.
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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