Week 11, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Matter Mono from Display Type Foundry is a fairly straight-ahead monospaced edition of the foundry’s Matter Family. It includes 12 fonts across 6 weights, including italics.
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In the first of many releases this week, ABC Dinamo releases ABC Asfalt, a wildly narrow, horizontally stressed, all caps display face inspired by a manual for road surface lettering.
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R-Typography welcomed Azo Super to the world this week—just one big, bulky, heavy, thick, cheerful, juicy, joyful typeface.
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Chiaroscura is a fashionable high-contrast display family of 14 fonts from EmType Foundry designed with sharp terminals and serifs that flare, point, and slice in headline settings.
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Say hello to Epura from Nova Type Foundry. Epura is a well-cut workhorse sans family of 16 fonts with both geometric and humanist DNA, geared up for warmer expressions in digital realms.
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Pyke, the latest release from the Northern Block, is a robust serif family in the didone style, but with a few modern touches to deliver a more full text color and perhaps friendlier Display expression.
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Dinamo also released Whyte Mono, the monospaced counterpart to their highly ink-trapped and stylishly edgy sans family Whyte. They’ve been able to carry over the odd spirit of Whyte into the monospaced grid across just two fonts: regular and italic.
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Out of the Dark published a set of fonts under the moniker Rauschen. Rauschen A & B are firmly in the grotesque sans camp, delivering a full 6 weights and a few quirky details in its letterdrawing.
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ABC Dinamo left one surprise release for the end of the week with ABC Arizona—a collection of 5 font families (Sans, Flare, Mix, Text, and Serif Styles) that all share the same DNA.
Links:
New Website: Nova Type Foundry has a new website for their catalog of retail fonts. Check it out.
Workshops: Martina Flor released a new video mini-course focused on organizing your work called The Tidy Artist.
Objects: Love the grid? This wooden grid cube is not a bad way to keep it around your workspace.
Conferences: The TDC has opened up registration for their Type Drives Communities Events May 6 & 7.
Education & Grants: The ANRT (Atelier National de Recherche Typographique) has opened up its 2021 applications for any of their six available research program positions.
Font Updates: Very Cool Studio updated their Gooper Collection on Future Fonts with a Deck Style—12 fonts with sturdier proportions that are ready for more text-heavy settings.
Listen: The In Pursuit of Luxury Podcast speaks with Jessica Helfand who gives an honest portrait of current design culture.