Week 18, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Plethora is the latest release from Sudtipos. Released this week, Plethora is an Old-style serif design inspired by the work of late nineteenth century type designer Julius Herriet. Plethora is billed as a study in ligature-making, featuring large arching connecting strokes, innovative connections, and a few swashy tails. Plethora is available as a family of 9 weights of roman and italic style, and as a variable font.
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Lovechild, a voluptuously psychedelic display semi-serif font from Beasts of England, is a literal lovechild of two of the foundry's already released fonts. Available in just the one style.
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Check out Extendomatic — a monolinear script with a variable tracking axis that adds letter space while keeping it all connected, and the May installment in DJR’s Font of the Month Club. It’s that retro Johnny Rockets Washing Machine script, but, wayyyyyyyy better.
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Pleasure is the latest from Pizza Typefaces. Pleasure is a new-age grotesque sans family with experimental end strokes that double back to make a full loop-de-loop. With lots of wild alternate characters across roman and italic styles, Pleasure nestles itself snuggly between a workhorse text sans and a show pony display sans.
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The Production Type LAB released Tempel Grotesk this week, a blocky sans serif family that carries a heavy weight across four widths. Texturally speaking, Tempel Grotesk delivers the dense page color it claims, and is filled with expert and delightful moments.
FONT UPDATES:
Schick Toikka’s Noe Family gets expanded into a full collection of three families: Display, Standard, and Text. The sharp serifs of Noe were begging for expansion into reading text and poster display styles, this expansion is a natural move.
Links:
KICKSTARTER: XX, XY: Sex, Letters, and Stereotypes is French type designer Marie Boulanger's thesis, which, upon a successful kickstarter campaign, will be self-published in english.
MAGAZINES: Ultrabold 20 is the first of two typographically packed issues published by the St. Bride Foundation in the UK to mark the 125th anniversary of the Library.
INTERVIEW: This slide-show style interview with Production Type’s Jean Baptiste Levée is insightful and kind of fun to flip through.
READ: A quick and interesting dive into the idea of a decentralized type foundry by Eric Hu. Great questions and thoughts raised in here.