Week 12, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Colophon Foundry released a Scotch Roman family of 15 fonts called Selva, complete with roman, italic, and an innovative script style.
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Emeritus from Blaze Type is a high contrast, calligraphic blackletter chock full of stylistic alternates and swashy tails.
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Say hello to Loos, the latest release from CSTM Fonts, released through Type Network. Loos is a wide squarish sans family with language support for Latin, Cyrillic, and Georgian.
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GranBlue is the latest release from Blast Foundry on Future Fonts that explores connecting high contrast letterforms and boxed text.
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Reply is a is a geometric typeface designed by Francois Rappo and inspired by a typewriter rendition of Vogue Intertype. With its contemporary aesthetic, Reply has a colorful personality that references a pivotal phase in the modern American design.
FONT UPDATES:
☞ Pangea from Fontwerk has gained italics.
☞ Feliciano Type added two additional weights to their sans family Grosa.
☞ Colophon Foundry added extra bold & black weights to Apercu Condensed.
Links:
ACCESS TO FONTS: Access: ITF (Indian Type Foundry) launched Fontshare this week —a free fonts service offering "a growing collection of professional grade fonts that are 100% free for personal and commercial use.” This is pretty wild for a major foundry to do, but upon closer inspection, it's an effort that strikes at the core of ITF’s core value of access to high-quality fonts for all. Will it also turn out to be good business? Time will tell.
TOOLS: This Proof Generator from GrilliType is sure to make a few type designer’s lives easier.
COMMUNITY: Have you heard about Type Crit Crew? It’s a free resource for type design students to meet 1–1 with experienced type designers for virtual critiques.
WATCH: ATypI has uploaded almost 20 hours of talks from their ATypI 2020 All Over Digital Conference to their YouTube channel.
ARTICLE: Is It Art or Is It Type? (via AIGA Eye On Design)
LEARN: Indra Kupferschmid’s incredible type classification resource resurfaced again this week, its always worth revisiting and bookmarking.
INSPIRATION: These type-only wine bottles are pretty fun.
CUSTOM FONTS: Check out Order Design’s ink-trappy addition to their custom typeface work for furniture maker Floyd.
TOOLS: Check out HYPERGLOT, a font database and tool from Rosetta Type for detecting language support in fonts.
NEW FOUNDRY: Meet No Bad Type, an Independent Type studio from Helsinki with a few surprising and expressive faces in their young catalog.