Week 06, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Colophon released Garton this week, a monospaced type family of 6 fonts that journeys far from its humble typewriter inspirations.
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Apparat from Lettersoup Type Foundry is a handsome humanist type family is a wide range of weights that extends the conversation started by Dwiggins’ Metro.
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Sagittarius is the latest release from Hoefler & Co. With a heavy dose of 70’s retro-futurism, and the spirit of Star Trek in the air, Sagittarius brings H7Co’s font catalog into a more photo-letter place.
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Welcome Kaligari to the world. Kaligari is an expressive angular script typeface that toys with the idea of color on the page. Available on Future Fonts.
Links:
Custom Type: Indian Type Foundry produced a custom type family for British multinational banking conglomerate Standard Chartered called SC Prosper. (via Brand New)
Event: The TDC presents an online lecture "Talking Type with Saki Mafundikwa” on Feb. 17.
Read: Fontstand Interviews Nova Type Foundry.
Read: This The Brand Identity interview with Marion Bisserier of Two Times Elliott about her typographic proclivities.
Student Type: Don’t miss the digital show room for Juan Villanueva’s Display Type Class at Type@Cooper. Lots of great type design work here.
Brand Work: Collins’ brand designs for the San Francisco Symphony is a Typographic Playground
Distribution: MVB Fonts is now on TypeNetwork.
Tune In: Celebrate the Life of Milton Glaser by attending this free panel discussion put on by Type@Cooper. Wednesday, February 24, 7:00 — 8:00pm EST.
Display Fonts: If you’re in the Milton Glaser mood, P22 Foundry dropped Glaser Babyteeth, a font family of 8 iconic styles derived from the work of Milton Glaser himself.
Read: How similar do font family resemblances need to be? Character Type on its NewsSerif Typeface. (via. Its Nice That)
One Last Thought:
“Typeface designers spend a lot of time chasing down strange valences. We try to figure out what’s producing that whiff of Art Deco, or that vaguely militaristic air, or what’s making a once solemn typeface suddenly feel tongue-in-cheek. If we can identify the source of these qualities, we can cultivate them, and change the direction of the design; more often, we just extinguish them without mercy."
— The opening paragraph to Hoefler&Co.'s writeup on Saggitarius.