Week 08, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Mack, the newest release from Blaze Type is a humanist sans serif inspired by the natural, brush-made variations of details originally rooted in geometry.
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Sharp Type released Centra Mono, a monospaced extension to their Centra No. 1 and Centra No. 2 Sans families released in 2017.
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LC Timaukel is a Dutch-inspired serif typeface, with calligraphic-inspired shapes and curved stems from Compañía Tipográfica de Chile, freshly released through Future Fonts.
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Vast form Paratype is a variable sans serif that plays with width in an aggressive yet casual style.
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The latest release from Sudtipos is a variable font family called Magari — an expressively casual and fun fusion of German and Italian high-contrast classics.
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Redonda is the latest family of fonts from Rio de Janiero based Plau Design. Redonda is a workhorse humanist sans family of 10 fonts with open proportions and both roman and italic styles in the style of Mark Simonson’s Proxima Nova or TypeTogether’s Bree.
Links:
New Fonts: Glaser Kitchen, the second in a series of fonts from P22 Foundry honoring the work of the late, great Milton Glaser.
Read: Gender, like language, is Fluid — the latest on representational emoji from Jennifer Daniels
Icons: “Experience Japan Pictograms”, designed by Nippon Design Center (Kenya Hara’s firm), contain over 250 “symbols developed for people of all cultures and ages to enhance their tourism experience in Japan” via Brand New.
Don’t Miss Inspo: " Landmarks of Early Western Typography: from Gutenberg to Granjon, new additions to the Online Archive represent major developments in letterpress printing.” — This article from the Letterform Archive comes with some pretty incredible images.
Read: Robin Rendle has rendered a robust and revealing review of (ok I’ll stop) Colophon’s beautiful 2020 release Columba. (via Eye on Design.)
Custom Fonts: Roxaboxen designed Chappell Longhand an extensive custom script font for Warner Chappell Music, bringing a more casual hand-made touch to their brand communications.
In Use: Frere-Jones Type has some glamour shots up of their fonts in use in the new Moynihan Train Hall in NYC.
Crypto Crazies: Danielle Evans wrote an incredibly good run-down of what’s been going on with NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) and why you might be interested in learning about them.
Scholarship: Just a reminder that deadlines for the TDC’s 2021 Scholarships are coming up: The 2021 Superscript Scholarship for BIPOC Graphic Design Students is on March 19, and the 2021 Beatrice Warde Scholarship Competition deadline is March 19 as well. If you or anyone you know are eligible and have been thinking about applying, do it! The world needs your voice!