There's a retro wave sweeping type design, epitomized by this one particular detail: a simple circle counter. This bubble is all about the recent fonts that have been putting a hole in the middle of their letters.
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Traditionally, ‘good’ typefaces are ones with ample spacing, but what would happen if you made the type as tightly spaced as possible? Well, it’s certainly a look. This bubble is about the types that are bringing everything just a little closer together.
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Typography and Calligraphy have always had an interesting relationship, but somewhere along the way, type and calligraphy became estranged. In the last few years, that relationship has been rekindled. These are the Calligrafans.
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What is one to do in this post-modern world but to destroy the typographic models that have come before and build something new with the pieces? Some type designers have been doing just this through slicing and dicing letterforms into horizontal layers to get stacked forms that slant, lean, and dance on the reading line.
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Normally types are designed to handle the medium in which they are deployed, but what if you flipped that script? These types have been embracing analog production models or theories on visibility to explore a new aesthetic we call Digital Degradation.
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For ages, big, open counterforms exemplified mastery of craft and modern type technique. However, there are those who have been defying this idea by intentionally putting a 'kink' in the counter.
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A few things have been popping up above the x-height lately, bringing an old-fashioned calligraphic tradition back into the contemporary zeitgeist.
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Brutalism is a thing in almost every other art form, why shouldn’t type design have a go at it? These types are embracing the raw power of simple shapes and roughly-hewn strokes.
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The Tech-Mech Sans features a blending of square and round shapes with contrast in the ordinal poles to make what appear to be gears, cams, or digital-inspired lines that carve out their own new little area of the type design map.
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