Week 04, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Type Everything has released Boldoni — a very high contrast display type family of 5 weights that doesn’t shy away from the flair or the dramatic.
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Solina is a new grotesque sans family from Good Type Foundry weighing in at 60 types across 3 widths.
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Magnet is a long-awaited sans family designed by Inga Plönnigs. With 13 fonts in total, including an innovative back slant style, Magnet is a power play of type design, and Frere-Jones was smart to scoop up and release it.
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Nick Sherman (Hex Foundry) dropped a new single at Future Fonts this week: Marionette — an angular typeface inspired by a handful of glyphs W.A. Dwiggins sketched in 1937 for the Experimental No. 223 project.
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Source Serif has evolved yet again into its fourth generation with lots of additional language support, further improving the Source Collection of fonts — one of the most expansive open sourced font projects probably ever.
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Paavola Type Studio published Winkell, a futuristic all caps family inspired by futuristic science fiction and cyberpunk.
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Kranto is a new grotesque sans superfamily from ReType Foundry that counts a well-crafted inline style among its 144 fonts.
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Maxeville is the latest release from Soft Machine, a new foundry based in the Netherlands. Maxeville is a neutral sans family that bends the rules on character construction in select places.
Links:
Read: This intelligent and timely discussion between Agyei Archer and Elizabeth Carey Smith is a must read for all who engage in the typographic discourse online. Published on Typographica.
Custom Type: A Swashy handwritten brand typeface intermingles with sharp serifs in this tailored type solution for Every by Order.
Interview: Read more about the typographic experiences of Jamaal Benjamin of Studio Grand in this conversation with TYPE Magazine.
Fun: Hamilton Wood Type Museum has brought the magic of wood type printing to the web with their New Gallery where you can experience the layering that goes into some of their most iconic pieces.
Blog: ArrowType has recommitted to their blog this year, now updated in both aesthetics and content.
Article: Monotype releases first update to Avenir in 20 years, expanding to 150 global scripts and languages. (via Its Nice That)
Bookmark: Information designer Lisa Staudinger put together a pretty great resource of Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design.
Read: Future Fonts provides a primer on Variable Fonts and how to use them. Perfect for those just starting to approach the subject.
Act & Support: Pentagram’s Matt Willey has updated the growing Buy Fonts Save Lives platform that donates 100% of font sales to Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Charities. Peruse, buy, and have an impact.
Interview: The Brand Identity interviews French designer and typographer Margot Lévêque.
Watch: Sarah Hyndman’s latest video Supermarket Dash is a fun way to spend ten minutes playing a game show with fonts. (This one has chocolate in it.) Nice.
Merch: Sport the latest in type fashions with this Digestive Scarf from Ohno Type Co.
Read: How Instagram Failed the Creative Class by Danielle Evans.
News: Twitter has announced a new proprietary typeface Chirp. Apparently for use in their marketing and brand materials only for now (it appears there an ultimate desire to make all their type on the platform this custom typeface family), it a big move for one of the last social media platforms to not jump on the custom type wagon. (via @DerritDeRouen)