Week 01, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Flecha Bronzea, a condensed display addition to R Typography’s flagship Flecha Family.
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January’s Font of the month Club offering is Klooster Thin—a seriously unserious typeface that can only be described as a "funky uncial". Love it.
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DS Type released Elaine, a collection of Rosart-inspired typefaces this week. In true DS Type fashion, Elaine comes in text and display styles, but also dips into decorative expressions like the chiseled Ombre, or the elaborately decorative, viney Fleurer.
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Out of the Dark published an additional weight to their Syncro family: Syncro Bold.
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Nyck by Hot Type and released through Future Fonts is a versatile serif display face with lots of quirky innovations and peculiarities.
Links:
Do Not Miss: Black Design in America—happening NOW, and with additional classes/lectures/sessions through the rest of this month— is the first in a series of BIPOC Centered design history courses facilitated by Polymode.
Read: This interview with TDC’s Member of the Month Elaine Lopez is great. Truly the right energy for 2021.
Contribute: Typotheque is working on something big, something genuine, and something difficult: follow along with World Poem.
Highlight: Pentagram’s Natasha Jen Highlights her favorite design piece of 2020 — The Washington D.C. Black Lives Matter street lettering — and we will never miss an opportunity to promote it.
Read: Robin Rendle’s Website Essay on Newsletters is a must-read. How do we start to reclaim and remake the web for readers and people instead of companies and social-media doomscrolls?
Quiz!: Sarah Hyndman is launching a weekly Type Quiz that you can zoom into to participate, or stream later on her new YouTube Channel. Very fun.
Branding: Glyphs app's rebrand that rolled out last year was profiled on Brand New.
Learn: Designer and Developer Roberto Arista published a two-part tutorial series on his project Python for Designers
Subscribe: Flavia Zimbardi started a Newsletter for this new year, don’t miss out on subscribing.
Inspo: Some 19th century "ASCII" advertisements on the front page of the Brooklyn Eagle (Dec. 6, 1880). (tweet via @standardregular)
ICYMI:
☞ Typographica’s Reviews of their Favorite Typefaces of 2019 (yeah, 2019!) have been coming out regularly and each and every one of them is worth a read! Start with this one.
☞ Brand New’s End of year Wrap up list of the Best Uses of Type for Brands and Custom Type Design for 2020 highlighted some fantastic work done for brands.
☞ Type01, a relatively new publishing house for type-related books, magazines, and online content launched in December. The first issue publication of TypeOne is about decentralizing diversity.