Week 21, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Say hi to Santa Ana Sans, the latest type design from design studio Hoodzpah. Santa Ana Sans is a "semi-condensed pseudo-geometric sans" that actually has more ties to condensed sign painter types than anything else. No matter how you slice it, its got a lot of personality packed into 6 weights of roman and italics.
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Arp from W Type Foundry is a neo-grotesk type system exploring the relations between contrast, functionality, and graphic character in one family. This typography comes in 5 different weights including fine strokes with inverted contrast, a sharp sans serif, and a high contrast heavyweight.
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Okaso from 29Letters is a geometric sans family of Latin and Arabic fonts designed with “solid forms and dynamic contours [that] work in harmony to create a lively yet purposed corporate oddity.” Okaso is also designed as a companion to 29LT’s Oskura Family, also published this year.
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Hannes Famira of Famira Fonts has released Interpol Sans, a low-contrast sans family designed for legibility in low resolution situations. Interpol Sans is an extension of the Interpol Collection from Famira Fonts, available at TypeNetwork.
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Briefcase Type released BC Eric Machat, a Gill Sans inspired collection of three stylistic families — a classically proportioned regular, a narrow display, and a vintage feeling script family of three weights.
FONT UPDATE:
Lava from Typotheque gets two new light weights and some optical spacing with the help of variable technology. Learn more ☞
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NEW FONTS: Check out Ori Den-Dor’s ESAD Type Project Ginegar. I hope this gets released commercially somewhere, its just so nice.
APPAREL: Commercial Classics launches another collab clothing capsule collection of tees and accessories featuring their fonts.
READ: R-Typography’s latest blog post is about Optical Sizes.
ARTICLE: Marie Boulanger’s type design practice balances hypersensitivity and analytical thinking. (via It’s Nice That)
ARTICLE: Another article about Marie Boulanger’s book: Why gender stereotypes in typefaces can stifle creativity.
CUSTOM FONTS: Bold Monday produces custom type from Dutch public service broadcaster NTR.
WRITE UP: Arrow Type writes more in depth about the process and source inspiration for their Name Sans project, currently evolving on Future Fonts.
CUSTOM FONTS: Tipografies and design studio Mucho have teamed up to produce a custom display suite of 50 interchangeable fonts for the Primavera Sound Festival.