Week 14, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Sudtipos released Vastago Grotesk this week, a sans family of 9 weights inspired by traditional Grotesque designs of the 20th century. Vastago Grotesk was completed with advisory credit from the Type Crit Crew, and yes, it features ink traps.
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La Bolde Vita released Residenz Serif — a serif family counterpart to their 2019 release Residenz Grotesk. Residenz Serif comes in 6 weights across 3 optical sizes for a total of 18 fonts, and a wildly expressive set of alternate characters.
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Caraque is the latest font from Dalton Maag, a friendly, naive, and whimsical rounded sans family of 5 weights (or variable font option). As with most types from Dalton Maag, Caraque is geared towards corporate communications, but this time with a a looser more fun attitude.
Links:
ARTICLE: Toshi Omagari discusses Ink Traps, and it might be the best review of ink traps I’ve read yet, because of course it is.
CONFERENCES: The Typographics 2021 Conference has come rearing back to life this week with a new refreshed website and identity, laying out all the exciting things to come for the entirely virtual conference happening throughout the whole month of June. They still have the Conference talks, Workshops, and TypeLab, so check out the schedule and register now with a VERY friendly range of ticket price tiers.
INSPO: Marvel Superhero Lettering from Reagan Ray.
WEBSITES: Matthew Smith posted this link to Font Mini-Sites, its a great reference to bookmark.
READ: This profile on Kimya Gandhi is excellent. (via Design by Women)
INTERVIEW: This Just In: Hunter Saxony III’s Calligraphic Response to the murder of Nia Wilson — from The Letterform Archive.
INSPO: This Collection of Alphabet Books from Velkro using G.F. Smith Colorplan papers is pretty, and great. It’s pretty great.
PODCASTS: Lisa Congdon has released a new podcast through Co-Loop called the Lisa Congdon Sessions. Yay!
ARTICLE: Karate, Wonton, and Chow Fun: The end of ‘chop suey’ fonts. — an article about when fonts are laced with race, from CNN.
READ: u and uː vowel signs of Malayalam by Kavya Manohar on Alphabettes.