Week 20, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Mass-Driver released MD Primer this week, which is a sans-serif family of 6 roman style fonts (no italics) that explore both American and European Grotesques, complete with warts and all.
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Irregardless is the latest font release form Ohno Type Co. Formed form a process of fighting impulses in search of something new and comfortable, Irregardless is an honest and genuine typographic offering clocking in at 8 font styles (four weights of roman and italics) and a whiz-bang-boom-container style for bubble-and-frame-making. Read the process post here.
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Feliciano Type continues their one-a-week release schedule for the month of May with Miletus Grotesk, a release of just one contemporary grotesque style inspired by Standard Gothic from the Keystone Foundry, circa 1906.
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Future Fonts welcomes Sig to its lineup—a broad inscriptional semi-sans design by Ethan Cohen that reimagines Rudolph Koch’s 1931 typeface Wallau.
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Commission Display from Type Department is an Ultra Condensed Sans serif font (available as just 1 font) with an eye for edgy brand campaigns and bold headline settings.
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Dinamo has released their latest family: Marfa. Marfa is a clean and versatile gothic sans family with pipeline features and references types a 19th century typesetter would be familiar with. Marfa arrives as a family of 14 styles (7 weights of roman and italics), is available as a variable font, and also released with a Monospaced style of 7 styles.
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Numera is the latest offering from Monokrom. Designed by Frode Helland over the course of ten years, Numera is a serif family of 5 weights plus italics that show the benefit of having such a long process of refinement. It’s described as being "perfectly balanced in the middle range for refined text setting."
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Staff Grotesk is a new text-oriented take on the multi-width Staff family from R-Typography. Staff Grotesk is a very true-to-form grot that pairs well with the Staff family it shares DNA with. Staff Grotesk is available in 4 weights of roman and italic styles.
Links:
SITE: Take a moment to visit Design Regression, a journalette (mini journal) publishing texts that are about design for reading and reading-related research.
FUN: To promote their Jaune typeface’s graduation from Future Fonts, NaN Foundry has published sanssheriff.wtf, a very fun and ridiculous specimen site.
CUSTOM TYPE: Camelot Typefaces designs a new custom typeface for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. (via. Type01)
ARTICLE: Rui Abreu of R-Typography has launched a Stories section to the foundry site, ready to publish deeper dives and longer tales of his type process and perspective. Read the first main article out now: The Unofficial Origins of Chassi.
READ: This is a pretty good profile on Norbert. (via Eye on Design)
SITE: The Spring 2021 Type@Cooper Class projects have been published, check out their specimen site.
LISTEN: Ohno Radio interviews Mark Simonson.
ARTICLE: How Important is Harmony When Designing Multiscript Type Systems? An Interview with David Brezina.