Kicking off the new year with a look at the type releases of the past week and a half — now with images!
Blaze Type released Sature, a display typeface that evokes felt-tip marker lettering, designed by Nicolas Dupuis.
Brandon Nickerson released BN Gallant, an interpretation of Churchward Typestyle (2002).
Huerta Tipográfica released Betània Patmos, a script typeface intended for early reading texts designed by Carolina Giovagnoli.
Occupant Fonts released Carp, a humanist sans-serif inspired by Antique Olive (Fonderie Olive, 1962) designed by Marie Otsuka.
Typeji released on Future Fonts the first version of Method, a geometric sans-serif typeface inspired by Lining Gothic No.82, designed by TienMin Liao.
Tiro Typeworks launched a new website, now offering a canonical destination for the foundry’s designs, among which some new and updated typefaces:
Laconia Cherokee is an extension to Laconia (2021) for the Cherokee syllabic writing system, designed by Ross Mills with Paul Hanslow and Anna Štepanovská.
Brill, a serif typeface for scholarly texts originally designed by John Hudson with Alice Savoie and Karsten Luecke for the eponymous Dutch academic publisher, features even more extensive Unicode coverage (added by Paul Hanslow and Kaja Słojewska) and is now available as a variable font.
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:
Altiplano released Citizen Grotesk, a contemporary grotesk inspired by the Swiss International Style, designed by Raphaël Verona as a family of eight weights, preceded by the single-style Citizen Grotesk Poster earlier in the year.
Bastarda Type released Trujillo BT, a modernist display sans inspired by the work of Colombian artist Sergio Trujillo Magnenat, designed by Jason Guzmán and Seb Castellanos de la Hoz.
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!