Week 05, 2021

A Weekly Review of the World of Typography

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Releases:

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HWT Tangent is a hand-hewn sans-serif from Hamilton Wood Type & P22 Foundry originating as wood type from the late 1800s. Tangent takes the sans serif genre into odd directions with quirky alternates and nesting variants.

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Bureau Brut aims to “Round the Square & Square the Round” with Round, a sturdy sans with chamfered corners that plays on the ’stick & circle’ construction concept.

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What kind of fresh electrified oven did DJR bake his latest font of the month creation in? No one knows but it’s, sharp, it’s crazy, and worth subscribing to FotM for. Meet Megavolt. 🤘🏻

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Scilla is a high-fashion & high-contrast display family of four fonts inspired by the shapes of flowers. — from Atipo Foundry.

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R-Typography released Gineto this week, a contemporary grotesque sans family tailored for small sizes.

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Resonay, a swashy high-contrast display serif of 5 weights in roman and italic styles, is the first layered font from TypeMates.

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Links:

Read: Kickflip Typography, a recent essay excerpt from Robin Rendle’s Newsletter provides a fantastic review of Colophon Foundry’s last release of 2020: Columba.

Read: Doug Wilson waxes poetic about his favorite typeface Metro Nova.

Workshop: Python for Visual Designers with David Jonathan Ross, hosted by Type@Cooper.

Specimens: A Collection of Log Types from Fonts in Use.

Read: Eye on Design’s profile of Thomas Bouville and 205TF’s 2020 release Dédale.

Inspo: the Pandemic Graphics Archive.