Week 02, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Arteria from Typofonderie is a compressed display typeface family inspired by Italian shop signs and wood type traditions. The family launched this week with an immersive mini site experience.
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PolySans from Gradient Type Foundry is an ink-trappy, variable, contemporary sans project (with a Mono sister style) that satisfies the apparent need for trappy typefaces right now.
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Regional is the latest family from Sudtipos of 27 styles "inspired by the Old Style Bold models from the late XIX century by different type foundries.” For the economical collector, Regional also is also sold as a Variable Font.
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A year and a half after the release of the original Edge Sans, Typotheque releases Edge, a geometric slab serif typeface based on the orthogonal grid.
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MD IO is a new monospaced typeface designed for legibility in code from Mass Driver on Future Fonts. Buying in early is highly recommended.
Links:
Learn: Ellen Lupton is giving a lecture “Seven things Every Designer Needs to Know About Writing”, put on by the Chicago Design Club on January 26th. Sign Up here.
Specimens: This portfolio of California Type Designers is a beautiful and enviable object.
Books: The Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Types of Bruce Rogers
Milestone: Rosetta Type Foundry is celebrating ten years of business. Congratulations!
ICYMI: ILoveTypography has published their Favorite Typefaces of 2020.
Read: The Typography of Trauma from The Daily Heller.
Hello World: This week saw the launch of Type.world, a new font installer app that lets you install purchased fonts directly from a web site into an app on your computer. This is a great new way for independent foundries and font sellers to understand and grow closer to how and why designers manage and use fonts.
Buy Fonts: Pangram Pangram introduced a new way to access their entire font catalog in the form of their Font Starter Pack, which includes 144 fonts with a personal use license—a step up from a trial license— for $27.