Week 26, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
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Meet Tartuffo, the latest typeface from Montpellier, France based Lift Type. Tartuffo is a high contrast, narrower width serif display family inspired by literary character Tartuffe from famous french author Molière. Reminiscent of Elzevir types and decorative art deco types, Tartuffo is packed with flowing ligatures and bright, expressive character.
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Sharp Type released Greenstone this week, which is a trim and tailored homage to the beauty of stone carves letters. Paying special attention to how stone carved letterforms had come to be by the 20th century, with specific reference to Oscar Ogg's stone carving work and found cemetery headstones.
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Displaay Foundry's Lab published Denim this week, a stoic and edgy sans type family of 6 weights with flattened overshoot apexes and pipe bend corners. Denim has a narrower proportion and a clean aesthetic for long line setting.
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Lang Syne is the newest offering from Arrow Type, available as a v0.1 release on Future Fonts. Lang Syne is another type family derived from the styles of letters found on cemetery gravestones with slabby serifs, quirky moments, and constructed italics.
NEW RELEASES FROM THE I LOVE TYPOGRAPHY DEBUT:
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TheStencil from Lucas Fonts is an engineered humanist sans stencil font family of 80 fonts — 8 weights across 10 different levels of stencil bridge thicknesses. TheStencil is designed with laser cutters in mind, embracing the physicality of the stencil format.
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Palast Poster from HvD Fonts is an elegant high-contrast serif type family of 12 fonts in 6 weights of roman and italic styles. Palast Poster has a large x height, expansive open counters, and thin mark serifs and terminals that give it a modern high-fashion feel.
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Audela, translated from French meaning "beyond", is an adventurous and smartly composed text serif family of 14 fonts across 7 weights featuring sharp serifs, flowing letterforms, advanced OpenType features, and extended Latin and Cyrillic support.
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News: Storied typography blog I Love Typography announced a major transformation from just a blog to a full service distributor of fonts. ILT's new marketplace features fonts from talented designers and foundry partners from all over the globe. Learn more about this new endeavor here.
Inspo: Full scans of Space Alphabet (1964)
Article: Earliest Hangeul metal movable type blocks excavated in Seoul.
Podcasts: Ohno Radio's recent interview with Eric Hu is 100% a good listen.
Article: A “Zero-bullshit” Typeface Gets Demolished and Reassembled From the Ground Up (via Eye on Design)
Books: Michael Gericke has been a graphic designer for over four decades, and finally has a monograph bringing all of them into view.
Books: The IBM Poster Program: Visual Memoranda
Read: More on epigraphy—the study of ’exposed writings‘—and on Mercure, the new typeface from Fonderie Abyme, here. (via Design Observer)