Week 30, 2024
Releases:
Nome
Double Dagger
→ "Nome is a heavyweight sans with a strong presence. Its uniform, blocky design is clean and classic, but its precise chiseling and tightly angled joints have a striking impact. Nome’s minimal construction and bold appearance make it an ideal choice for display use, ensuring your headlines and logos stand out. Nome is the ultimate choice for designers seeking a modern, eye-catching alternative to traditional varsity fonts."
Elephantmen Variable
Comicraft
→ Elephantmen Variable is a pleasantly chipper oddball of a structured sans that retains the impression of 90s hand-lettered comic lettering merged with digital precision. "Mad scientist John Roshell has remastered and redesigned the many widths and styles of the Elephantmen fonts into a single, all-powerful font family. Boasting supra-human strength and versatility, this font responds to your every command of Width, Weight and Slant, and is built to tackle the most challenging design battles."
Perenelle Sans
Dalton Maag
→ Perenelle Sans, the serifless companion to Perenelle Serif, is an elegant high contrast sans typeface with a classic vibe. "Perenelle Sans artfully combines a classic aesthetic with contemporary expression. With a broad weight axis from refined Hairline to punchy Black, and dynamic cursive Italics, it’s perfect for sophisticated editorials and premium branding projects." Designed by Robert Pratley, Perenelle Sans is available as a family of 9 weights of both roman and italic styles.
Perenelle Serif
Dalton Maag
→ Perenelle Serif, the seriffed companion to Perenelle Sans, is a handsome high contrast bodoni-esque serif typeface with a sturdy stance. "Perenelle Serif is an elegant typeface that delivers 18th and 19th-century charm with modern flair. Its diverse weight range from delicate Hairline to powerful Black, and expressive cursive Italics, make it ideal for refined editorial work and impactful branding." Designed by Robert Pratley, Perenelle Serif is available as a family of 9 weights of both roman and italic styles.
NaN Druid
NaN Foundry
→ NaN Foundry's newest release is NaN Druid, comprised of two subfamilies: NaN Druid, an angular semi-slab serif, and NaN Druid Sans, a semi-contrasted sans, that share matching proportions and weights but diverge in their contrasting styles. "Druid is a two-headed font family that imagines and actualizes the worlds of histories and the unexpected from the minds of Co-Archdruids Reymund Schröder and Anna Khorash." The serif cut features aggressively angled top serifs that give a literary feel to a typeface of contemporary proportions. The sans family celebrates clarity of form while maintaining a fun and flowy humanist perspective. All in all, NaN Druid has 8 weights in each family for a total of 16 fonts.
Luska
Dualtype on Future Fonts
→ Luska is "an experimental variable font inspired by wood type" with prominent winged serifs, a playful sensibility on width, and a pretty high horizontal contrast in the serifs that give it that old fashioned wood type feel. Luska is available as a variable font of two axes: Contrast and Width. "Playful and expressive, it offers highly pronounced variations." Luska is a v0.1 release on Future Fonts, so get in on this one early.
New Foundry:
Badson Type Foundry
Badson Type Foundry has launched this week. BTF is a foundry arm of Badson Studio run by Kyle Read out of Denver, CO. The launch of the new foundry site saw several new family releases and the first of their “Brand Palette Collections” — a starter kit of fonts made to compliment each other and be sold as a bundled set— perfect for young designers just getting started building their libraries. Congrats Badson!
Ermine → An outdoorsy, contrasted sans family of 5 widths
Guilder → An industrial, layerable sans inspired by gilded lettering
Grigio → An Art Deco inspired narrow serif
Porter → A contemporary, super-compressed sans
Ginny → A slender, hard working thin sans
Armond → A vintage, all-caps flared serif inspired by Italian cafes
New Foundry:
Alexandre Créquer Typefaces
Rennes, France based designer Alexandre Créquer has launched a new website publishing his own type designs. This one-person foundry brings a diverse range of display types to the market, including a few free fonts with expressive natures, and several in-progress fonts in the pipeline. Do check out Alexandre's work and the new perspectives they bring to the table.
Sagace → A well-rounded and clean-lined contemporary sans
Pouler → A full-bodied, all caps, art-deco inspired display serif
Aukera → An experimental, sci-fi, organic display sans
2023 Annual Report — Out Now!
Packed with stats, insights, and analysis, the 2023 Annual Report is the most comprehensive look into the economics and storylines from the world of independent type.
A New Format for The COncierge
The Concierge, our long-time subscription service to curated playlists of type, is now available as a downloadable PDF series in our new Proof&Co. shop. Collect and own your own set of lists to discover fonts from across the indie type landscape.
The Interrogang Podcast is Back!
That’s right, our type-talkin’ podcast is back with new episodes, and Season Four kicks off in style with Episode 1: This is Typographic Anarchy. In this episode, the guys reconvene after months away to chat font help for indie comic designers, football jersey oopsies, and a serif wave crashing to shore.