Recent releases #27

Atipo released Swiza, a sans serif inspired by the timeless principles of Swiss design, reimagined for today’s needs.

Blaze Type released the Dean collection designed by Tim Vanhille and Inès Davodeau, a tribute to the musical and cinematic culture of mid-20th century America. The collection is comprised of two families of identical proportions, Dean Gothic and Dean Slab, expressed as variable fonts with width, weight, and slant axes.

Brandon Nickerson released BN Branchie, an iteration of BN Branch, originally released in 2021 and apparently based on California Caps / Bailey (~1966) [fontsinuse.com].

After releasing the text family earlier this month, DSType finalized the other three optical sizes of the Pulso collection designed by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos and first made available in 2024 as an early-access release. All families are available in Latin-only and Latin/Greek/Cyrillic multiscript packages.

Fontfabric released Nexa Round, the latest variant, designed by Ivelina Martinova, of the geometric sans Nexa, designed by Svetoslav Simov and originally released in 2012. Along with the more conventionally interpolated weight range, the typeface features a stylized Ultra weight available in solid and highlighted styles.

FredsFonts updated with a slanted style Anormal Sans, a condensed, low-contrast sans of Italian Art Deco heritage, designed by Fred Wiltshire and first released in 2023.

Inga Plönnigs released on Future Fonts the initial version of Ringi, a condensed, monolinear, stoically engineered sans inspired by the LED typeface of Berlin S-Bahn displays, available in a variety of optically-uncorrected slants and backslants of up to 45° in tilt.

Letters from Sweden released Gothia Serif Text, the body-text companion to Gothia Serif, an editorial typeface influenced by Dutch models both historical (Hendrik van den Keere and Christoffel van Dijck) and contemporary (Gerard Unger), designed by Göran Söderström and released in 2019.

Monokrom updated Diploë, originally designed in 2024 by Frode Helland and Kostas Bartsokas, with outline refinements and an expanded character set. The typeface now also has a minisite.

Pangram Pangram published an early-access release of PP Museum, a modulated sans inspired by early sketches of Hermann Zapf’s Optima (Stempel, 1958), designed by Andrea Biggio, Mathieu Desjardins, and Francesca Bolognini.

Pizza Typefaces updated two members of the Business collection, the sturdy, insistently-seriffed Business Didot and its connected script companion Business Blooming, with an optical size axis.

Public Type released Contro, a geometric display sans inspired by 20th-century Italian modernist typography, with a conceptual backbone that pays homage to iconic figures such as Tschichold, Renner, Bill, and Bayer, designed by Harsh Patel and Michael Cina. Several alternate letterforms are available through stylistic sets.

RadLuka released RL Grot, a sans serif inspired by early 20th-century designs such as Franklin Gothic (ATF, 1904) and Grotesk No. 9 (Stephenson Blake, 1906) as well as Eastern European vernacular type, designed by Radek Łukasiewicz.

Signal Type finalized Jarlath, a digital revival of Jarlath Hayes’s Tuam Uncial (Letraset, 1974), designed by Max Phillips under the supervision of Hayes’s daughter and initially published in 2020 as an early-access release. Jarlath is available in seriffed and sans-serif variants, with upright and italic styles.

Skritur released Principio, a free typographic interpretation of the capitals found on the title pages of illuminated Irish and English manuscripts dating back to the 7th century, designed by Malou Verlomme. The typeface includes an extensive set of ligatures and uncial alternates.

For her Future Fonts debut, Tamara Pilz published the initial version of Fizz, a sharp, streamlined, reverse-contrasted display serif.

Tour de Force released Nuvola, a caligraphically-informed modulated sans designed by Dušan Jelesijević.

In December 2024, the foundry released Contradictor, a condensed serif typeface also designed by Dušan Jelesijević.

Type-Ø-Tones released Scena, a geometric sans with simplified connections between arches and stems, designed by José Manuel Urós and Sabina Kipară. The design began from slanted lowercase letters with bottom loops and was streamlined into a simplified upright style, with the original features available as alternates.

Also from Type-Ø-Tones, Gotta Scotch, a serif typeface of Scotch/Modern inspiration incorporating contemporary and transitional influences, emerged from Marcela Aguilera’s final project for the Master in Typographic Design at the Eina School of Barcelona and designed in collaboration with Pedro González.

Typofonderie released Deréon, a modern serif typeface designed by Jean François Porchez. It features the sharp ‘arrises’ in counterforms associated with W.A. Dwiggins’s M-formula, as well as an extensive set of swashes and alternate letterforms.

Typozon updated Salvaje Display by Cristian Vargas. (I had previously reported this update as coinciding with the launch of of the new foundry website in November 2024, but apparently it was still featuring the original version of the typeface.)