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:
- Bijou Type has a new foundry website to showcase Dan Rhatigan’s typeface designs.
- Currently seeking funding on Volume, Type Archived: A visual journey through typographic history by Richard Ardagh is
a stunning visual tour of traditional typefounding, tracing the origins of typography and the printed word
through artifacts housed at the Type Archive in London. - With Slanted’s Yearbook of Type #7 just off the presses, the list of typefaces featured in the book was made available on the YoT website.