A look at the type releases of the past week. (Now with some corrections and additions.)
Beasts of England released Friend, a condensed serif typeface with softened outlines designed by Simon Walker.
Capitalics released Magiore, a geometric sans designed by Mateusz Machalski, available as a variable font with width and weight axes.
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.
Contrast Foundry released CoFo Sans Semi-Mono, the semi-proportional interpolation of CoFo Sans and CoFo Sans Mono, all designed by Maria Doreuli.
Dinamo released Solar, a geometric sans designed by Renan Rosatti from diverse influences, among which Kabel, Vogue, Metro No. 2, Johnston, Erbar-Grotesk, and Futura. The typeface’s stylistic sets control the expression of these influences.
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.
FDI Type released Wimaria Gotisch, a digitization by Ralf Herrmann of the fett style of Element, originally designed by Max Bittrof in 1933 for Bauer.
Playtype released Access, a nod to Aldo Novarese’s Eurostile (1962) designed by Jonas Hecksher. It’s a reworking of a design originally released in 2010 [fontsinuse.com] that introduces additional weights and a new semi-proportional family named Access Granted.
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.
A new presence on Future Fonts, Ratchanon Boongsrithong releases typefaces as Vee Ratchanon, starting with Canon Grotesque, a condensed sans with wide alternate characters, available in Latin-only and Latin/Thai biscriptual variants.
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.