Recent releases #31

205TF released Naancy, a filiform display sans drawing from architecture—its rhythm, the juxtaposition of styles, the play of light and shadow, the layout of facades, motifs and ornaments—and from nature, with its unexpected forms, curves, and intertwining shapes, designed by Damien Gautier. With several alternate letterforms and discretionary ligatures available as stylistic sets, the typeface invites letter-by-letter compositions. Naancy is available in two grades with matching ornaments. [205.tf]

Adriana Garcidueñas published on Future Fonts the initial version of Tlayuda, a single-weight, reverse-contrast display typeface whose upcoming versions will include vertical variation axes for waist and x-height, as well as horizontal axes for width and serif extensions. The design concept originates from a TypeCooker session organized by the Letrástica community, and the design space was developed with the guidance of Romina Hernández. [futurefonts.xyz]

Blaze Type released Booster, an interpretation of Modern Gothic (Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, ~1897) designed by Maksym Kobuzan. The original Sans is supplemented with five treatments enhancing different aspects of a design’s personality and function: Rounded, Pixel, Polygonal, Stencil, and Inktrap. The collection is available as variable fonts with axes for width, weight, and slant. [blazetype.eu]

Also from Blaze Type, Macrosoma Grotesque is the first subfamily of the upcoming Macrosoma collection, which at almost two thousand individual cuts the foundry says might very well be the most expansive type family ever created. Designed by Valerio Monopoli and Fred Wiltshire, Macrosoma Grotesque is available as a variable font with axes for width and weight. [blazetype.eu]

A third release from Blaze Type, Quadro is a squared squared sans designed by Giuseppe Tangaro, available as a variable font with width, weight, and slant variation axes. [blazetype.eu]

Capitalics released Regards, a kind of homage to the aesthetics of the streets of London, in which the works of the greatest masters of typography are interwoven alongside neo-Gothic architecture or Brutalist insets , designed by Mateusz Machalski. [capitalics.wtf]

Céline Hurka released Carmen is Regular, a bold display typeface designed by Céline Hurka for, and in collaboration with, Carmen Dusmet Carrasco. The typeface plays with this idea of never achieving completion, never finding peace and will receive continuous updates, with each licensee encourage to request up to five custom ligatures. [celine-hurka.com]

Commercial Type published in the foundry’s Vault section Caslon Ionic Rounded, the rounded counterpart to Caslon Ionic, an interpretation of Ionic No. 2 (Caslon, 1854) designed by Greg Gazdowicz and Paul Barnes and released in 2019. [vault.commercialtype.com]

CubicType released Dorothy Norma, a fantasy dot matrix font based on DIN 6776 lettering for technical drawing designed by David Jones. [drj11.itch.io]

Dalton Maag expanded the weight range of Soleto, a contemporary sans designed by Fernando Caro, Fabio Haag, and Rafael Saraiva and originally released in 2014. The new version is also available as a variable font with a weight axis. [daltonmaag.com]

Dalton Maag also expanded the character set for Lexia, a humanist slab serif designed by Ron Carpenter, Ignacio Casco Guijarro, Reiko Hirai, Franziska Hubmann, and Robert Pratley and originally released in 2007. The new version supports the now support Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew scripts. [daltonmaag.com]

Along with Lexia, its monospaced counterpart Lexia Mono, originally designed by Ron Carpenter, Ignacio Casco Guijarro, Elí Castellanos, and Spike Spondike and released in 2019, was similarly updated to support Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew. [daltonmaag.com]

Dương Trần published an update on Future Fonts for Thow, a serif typeface that captures the essence of transitional mixed with modern genre while introducing unique and contemporary flourishes that evoke a heritage of historical elegance, designed by Dương Trần and initially released in 2024. The new version features matching italic styles for all weights. [futurefonts.xyz]

ECAL Typefaces released Magnette, a display typeface inspired by a set of mysterious shapes found on an unidentifiable cassette tape in a thrift store, designed by Edouard Berard. [ecal-typefaces.ch]

Gruppo Due released G2 Airdancer, a formalist approach to bold, compressed, display sans-serifs that rather explores technological properties of type design than a revivalist narrative. Originally designed by Massimiliano Audretsch, Moritz Appich, and Bruno Jacoby for an installation in the Lichthof of Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, G2 Airdancer features regular, semi-round, and round styles. These styles are made available, along with width, as variation axes. [gruppo-due.com]

Inga Plönnigs published on Future Fonts an update to Zetkin, a sans serif typeface informed by Venus (Bauer, 1907), designed by Inga Plönnigs, initially released in 2020. The new version features six weights across four widths, in upright and oblique styles. [futurefonts.xyz]

Interval Type released two narrower widths of Oceanic Grotesk, a sans serif designed by Ilya Naumov and released in 2023. The new families are called Oceanic Grotesk Compact and Oceanic Grotesk Condensed. [intervaltype.com, intervaltype.com]

Ivy Foundry released IvyGothic, a neo-grotesque sans designed by Jan Maack based on Times Gothic (ATF). [ivyfoundry.com]

Martha Sue Coursey published on Future Fonts the initial version of Magik Wanda, a typeface that began as inky drawings hand-lettered with a Speedball Series B nib and was influenced by the lettering styles of the Vienna Secession movement and the illustration and lettering in Wanda Gág’s children’s books. [futurefonts.xyz]

Maxitype released Teletext, a humanist pixel typeface based on a 1979 design by Adrian Frutiger for the CRT screens of the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, expanded by Maximage into a fully-featured typeface. [maxitype.com]

Nova Type Foundry finalized Baga, a display typeface designed by Joana Correia and initially released on Future Fonts in 2023. Baga is now available in five weights. [futurefonts.xyz]

Resistenza Type Foundry released Furbo, a ’70s-flavored, reverse-contrast, monospaced display typeface designed by Giuseppe Salerno and Paco González. Furbo is available as a variable font with axes for width, inclination, and for shifting the weight vertically. [rsztype.com]

Rosetta released Only Yours, a generative typeface that contains thousands of unique variations, each featuring a different combination of characteristics, designed by David Březina. Every variant, of which nine are generated each day, comes with an exclusive license. [rosettatype.com]

Teo Tuominen published on Future Fonts the initial version of Finnish Pie, a condensed serif typeface available in four weights. [futurefonts.xyz]

The Northern Block reissued Scriber, an octagonal display typeface originally designed by Jonathan Hill and released in 2009, as a stencil design. [thenorthernblock.co.uk]

Threedotstype released Tor Grotesk Mix, a remix of the thin weight of Tor Grotesk designed by Marian Misiak for the upcoming Slanted publication Support independent type II. [threedotstype.com]

Typonym released Marsalito, a display offshoot of Marsam featuring bifurcated serifs, designed by Evan Deterling. [typonym.xyz]

Garant, a geometric sans typeface originally released in 2021. [brass-fonts.de]

Konkret Grotesk, a squarish grotesque typeface originally released in 2018. [brass-fonts.de]

Rotwang, a typeface that plays with the character traits of high-contrast transitional serif typefaces and Didone-style typefaces, originally released in 2013. [brass-fonts.de]

Corpa Gothic, a condensed sans inspired by hand-drawn geometric poster typefaces from the 1920s. originally released in 1997. [brass-fonts.de]