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:
- Boom Promphan Suksumek visits LƯU CHỮ, Vietnam’s graphic & type archive.
- A new book by Itemzero, Paper, Paper, Paper explores paper manufacturing, transformation and handling techniques.
- James Grieshaber launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund The Virgin Wood Type Bible