Week 10, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Klim Type Foundry released The Manuka Collection the Manuka Collection this week — a set of three condensed font families for large sizes and display settings. And, For the next two years, Klim will donate 20% of all Mānuka sales to @treesthatcount to plant more native trees in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
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The 30 fonts included in Transducer from JTD Type are filled with the spirit of classic turntables, stereos, and tube amps that aim to "add some humanity; ...the hums and the distortion of a hand-soldered circuit board.”
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Avona Serif is a family 5 fonts, and a variable option, from Alanna Munro inspired by fantasy games and calligraphy, featuring wide, round letter shapes and a vintage vibe.
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Rowton is a robust humanist sans family of three styles —roman, italic, and an adventurous semi-serif stencil — from Black Foundry. Rowton is inspired by the work of Eric Gill, and explores how weight can be distributed amongst letterforms to achieve stylistic differences across a major family.
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Lucette, the first release from Alice Savoie on Future Fonts, is an exploration of the ‘heavy top’ model established by fonts like Antique Olive or Gill Sans Double Elefans.
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Superior Type’s latest release is Lenora, a very high contrast display serif with charmingly edgy moments sprinkled in across 6 weights and Greek & Cyrillic language support.
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Apex Type foundry released Granit Display — a family of 2 fonts (roman and italic) with gothic vibes and loads of quirky alternates, inspired but 19th and 20th Century headstones.
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The next 2021 release from Sudtipos is Espiritu, designed by Agustin Pizarro Maire. Espiritu is a warm and friendly semi-serif that retains its illustrated spirit across 5 styles aimed at the gritty, hand-influenced graphic designers out there, (including a wide thin slab, a script, and narrow styles).
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Other display fonts released this week include Captain Edward from Simple Bits—an all caps font with a nautical flair— and Adams, a calligraphic serif from Beasts of England.
Links:
Read: Christoph Koeberlin writes about his process and experience designing his recently type family Pangea.
Watch: Lynne Yun’s ATypI 2020 Talk about Type, Technology, and Beyond.
Lecture: The Letterform Archive has some fascinating workshops and lectures coming up soon, but Stone Carved Lettering and the Digital Age with Nicholas Benson on March 30th looks particularly special.
Read: Some Type Foundries Want to Restrict Usage of Their Fonts on Ethical Grounds. Will It Work? (via Eye on Design)
Icons: Google has made available a set of over 2,000 open source, distinct icons that follow its Material Design principles for download as individual SVG or PNG files as well as through Google Fonts in the form of an icon font.