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:
- Garage Gothic (1992), a condensed sans evoking the type on parking tickets from ’80s Brooklyn.
- Interstate (1993), an interpretation of the road sign typeface Highway Gothic (1948).
- Nobel (1993), a revival of Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos’s Nobel (Typefoundry Amsterdam, 1929).
- Griffith Gothic (1997), an interpretation of Chauncey Griffith’s Bell Gothic (Linotype, 1938).
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:
- STK Bureau Sans and STK Bureau Serif, a sans & serif couple originally released in 2022.
- STK Gerhard, a monospaced sans originally released in 2022.
- STK Miso, a wide-set sans originally released in 2022.
- STK Saga, a serif first released earlier this year (I think?).
- An initial version of the slab serif STK Earl.
In other news:
- TypeTogether has a new printed catalogue featuring all the retail typefaces released by the foundry between 2019 and 2024.
- As Quora makes increasingly dubious moves, Thomas Phinney has been bringing his answers to type-related questions to his personal blog, Phinney on Fonts.
- More articles from the Typography papers journal have been made available as PDF. They now form an almost complete archive, with only issue #8 still missing.
- From the Letterform Achive, Ten Typography Talks to Revisit from 2024.
- Hand carved lettering on stone, a seven-part instructional YouTube series by Barry Thomas (via Antonio Cavedoni).
- From the diary of designer, writer and illustrator Peter Campbell (1937–2011), In the printshop is a meditation on technological change originally written in 2010 (via Titus Nemeth).
Thats’s all for this year, see you in 2025!