Week 15, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
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Chassi is the latest family release from R-Typography. It’s a collection of editorially focused types inspired by classic design stylings from the likes of Garamond, Jannon, and Granjon. Chassi reimagines the iconic touchpoints of these designers with three weights of roman and italics across each of the collection’s three optical styles.
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Immortel by Clément Le Tulle-Neyret is an expertly crafted collection of four typographic variations on a theme. Immortel, originally an ANRT project, is a serif design that explores a range of expressions that draw from four different historical reference, four different personality traits, and four different optical restraints in typesetting. Certainly one of the most involved, interesting, and comprehensive releases of the year so far, released by 205TF. Check out he lengthy and very in-depth write-up here.
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Altesse from Typofonderie is a beautiful formal script font inspired by copperplate engravings and historical french script models. It has a more emphatic and emotive quality to it than standard copperplate scripts, with bulbous terminals, expressive swashes, and an expert eye for well-drawn curves. Altesse is available as a family of 5 optical sizes.
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Altform is a solid and deceptively simple sans serif family with an alter-ego resulting from the marriage between a geometric sans and a grotesque. Altform is available in seven weights, each with italics, from CoType Foundry.
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Say hi to Spuk, a disappearing variable font from Blast Foundry on Future Fonts. Designed with Animation in mind, with a personality drawn right form the age of speedball and photo lettering, Spuk is a technologically adventurous font of one style that dissolves into a stencil font, and eventually into, well, nothing.
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T1 Korium was released this week through Type01 Foundry’s Type Department. Korium is "a contemporary sans with angular shapes and a badass attitude", and is the first-ever variable font released by TYPE01 in collaboration with type designer Valerio Monopoli. Watch out, it looks like it could cut you!
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This week, Binnenland Type Foundry released their latest family: Lexik. German for lexis, Lexik is a sharply cut serif family of 10 fonts of roman and italic styles across 5 weights featuring a blocky, angular letter construction, and designed for text setting and reading.
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NEWS: TypeTogether has launched a new service for their Foundry that provides access to their entire catalog of fonts called Premier. Premier is a new and free one-click trial license for professional designers who are looking for the right fonts for their pitches and projects. Applause to TypeTogether for this new model for getting fonts into the hands of designers, which is certainly one of the largest pain points in today’s font economy. Learn more about Premier here.
VIDEO: Agyei Archer’s St. Bride Library Lecture entitled “Do It Like You Do It” is now available online.heck out the schedule and register now with a VERY friendly range of ticket price tiers.
EVENTS: TypeTasting (Sarah Hyndman) is hosting an online event “The History of Type In Ten Movie Posters” on Sunday, April 25, and it looks fun!
OBJECTS: The latest from Poem Editions — The Material Discovery of the Alphabet, a 24 page mini book complete with stencil lettering template.
EVENTS: Exploring Language, Politics, and Typography with Kelly Walters — an online lecture event with and about Black, Brown, and Latinx design educators, in partnership with the TDC, held on April 22.
VIDEO: The ever-cool Thomas Jockin chats with O. G. Rose on his Lexend Font , literacy, and a whole bunch of other fascinating stuff.
INSPO: These Orange Peel Type Explorations of Manfred Westreicher. (via SwissMiss)
ARTICLE: Designer + Educator J. Dakota Brown Is Untangling the Relationship Between Design and Labor by Kenya Samarskaya (via AIGA Eye on Design)
BOOKS: Swiss Typeface has published their second typeface Monograph: Euclid — Typeface Mystery No. 1, available at Physical Company.
READ: Type Design in the Museum: Acquiring the Immaterial by Craig Eliason on Typographica.
ART: Loving these latest lettering & painting pieces from Christopher Rouleau.