Week 07, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
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The Lab at Swiss Typefaces has birthed an experimental straight-lined monospaced typeface called Euclid Mono that "redefines what a geometric mono can be, while staying true to the Euclid spirit”.
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Sharf is an editorial type family from the newly minted Blast Foundry with an experimental touch and unpredictable contrast changes between text and headline styles, available on Future Fonts.
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Feliciano Type Foundry released Parafina this week — an open countered typographic-system based on geometric shapes of varied widths, available in six weights with three optical sizes for each.
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Colophon Foundry has been teasing the release of Sunset Gothic for a week or so now, and finally released it this week. Sunset Gothic, a family of seven fonts, is a “painterly sans-serif” homage to the work of famous Angelino sign painters including John Baldessari and Norm Laich.
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Cool Thing: Warby Parker’s Alphabet of Art Book, sold exclusively in stores.
Scholarship: The Malee Scholarship, an annual $6,000 USD grant awarded to one young woman-of-color between ages 16 and 29, is open for applications!
New Foundry: Say hello to Blast Foundry, an independent type foundry "focused on variable fonts, quality, and freshness” spearheaded by Barbara Bigosińska, Rafał Buchner, and Diana Ovezea.
Custom Type: TypeTogether has created a looped and unlooped script typeface for Twinkl designed to demonstrate proper handwriting to 5-11 year olds.
Party: Alphabettes is throwing a party to celebrate the Alphabettes mentees, free and open to the public. Connect with type designers, students, and chat about all the work that’s been done during the program this last year. — Feb. 21, 16:00 GMT
Meet-Up: Multiscript and Webtypography are the themes of the second TypeTech online session and is happening on Feb 26.
Emojis: The Syringe emoji has lost its blood.
New Fonts for Good: Matt Willey’s charitable font house has released 2.0 version updates of most of its fonts, including Timmons NY, ATYPE Stencil, NSW01, MFRED, and Blakey, among others.