Week 21, 2024
Releases:
Onsite Mono
Sociotype
→ Onsite Mono is a fixed-width type family that compliments Onsite’s three widths, consisting of the same seven weights found in Onsite’s other subfamilies, along with an additional Book weight. Onsite’s Mono embraces the constraints of fixed-character widths that categorise the monospace style, enhancing Onsite’s existing technical charm.
Sharp Earth
Sharp Type
→ Sharp Earth is an "expressive show horse sans serif with expansive workhorse utility. Conceived as a full-fledged multi-script family, the typeface is an amalgamation of geometric construction and Grotesk proportion. The family covers nearly every latinized language script on Earth—a character set we call OmniLatin—in addition to Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Thai, Devanagari, and Japanese."
Sharp Serif
Sharp Type
→ Sharp Type also debuted their long awaited Sharp Serif Superfamily this week by releasing Sharp Serif Text and Sharp Serif Text PanEuro subfamilies. Few contemporary designers have strayed into creating flagship typefaces inspired by 15th-century Italian masters and French renaissance types because of how elusive it's been to make this influence feel modern. But, Sharp has cracked the code.
Pahin
BLAZE Foundry
→ Pahin is a new 'expressive flared serif' type family of 12 fonts (6 weights of roman and italic styles) from Blaze Type. Designed by Maksym Kobuzan, Pahin has a "plasticity [that] is inspired by the graceful curves of stems and flowers, creating vibrant and organic forms."
New Foundry Alert
Say hello to Wabi Sabi Type Foundry
→ The iconic design studio LAND and Texas-based muralist Joe Swec have come together to from Wabi Sabi Type Shop. As the name suggests, it's a foundry that produces very imperfect, wonky, handmade, and found-vibes fonts, with 9 fonts released on debut. Congrats, Wabi Sabi, we look forward to seeing more adventurous types as the years roll on!
→ Futurista
→ Corsicana
→ Forest Retreat
→ Long View
→ Curio
→ Brother Wind
→ Peace Flag
→ Modern Ephemera
→ Universal
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