Week 28, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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Type Everything released Deia this week — a 7 weight family of bracketed display serifs. Designed for high impact and high-personality design, Deia falls somewhere between a humanist sans and a chiseled semi-serif.
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Poly from Schriftlabor is a serif typeface inspired by vintage travel guides keeping the naïf style typical of those publications. It has spiky serifs and a retro style that expresses over the family's 5 weights of roman and italic styles.
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Kimmy Design Co. released Madley — a slab serif family with a soft side. Released on ILT Fonts, Madley is a friendly slab featuring lightly rounded corners and graceful constructions across 12 fonts of roman and italics.
NEWS & NEW FONTS:
Say hello to Lettermatic! The new font foundry outfit of Riley and Heather Cran launched this week as a space to sell and display the retail and custom fonts they've been making over the past few years for clients such as Starbucks and the California Academy of Sciences. Welcome to the scene, Lettermatic, looking forward to seeing the brand-oriented types in your future!
Debut releases from Lettermatic:
☞ Really Sans — A tightly-spaced flexible sans family of 28 fonts across 9 weights with a tall x-height and large and small optical sizes.
☞ Parclo Serif — a stylish display serif family of nine weights of roman and italic styles featuring chunky curves and organic terminals with flourish.
☞ Parclo Sans — The trimmed and satisfying sans counterpart to Parclo Serif delivering easily readable humanist letterforms across 3 widths and 9 weights.
☞ Bezzia — Bezzia is a slab serif with a friendly disposition. Available as a family of 8 sharply and sturdily designed weights in roman and italics.
Links:
Article: Transforming the Black Experience in Design — A follow-up article from the Letterform Archive.
Goods: Colophon Foundry's 2022 Typographic Calendar has hit the shelves.
Write-up: MD Primer: The Pursuit of Imperfection dives deeper into Mass Driver's recent major release.
Goods: Check out these jewelry pieces based on the unicode arrows!
Review: Making typefaces the open a new era — a review by Akari Yuki, shared by Shoko Mugikura on Fontstand News.
Profile: Frere-Jones Type's Nina Stoesseinger spoke with the International Service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation about her work on Seaford, type design in general, and life in Brooklyn — via Swiss Info
Scholarship: The Malee Scholarship announced its 2021 Recipient: Sandra Morales. Read more about her work and the scholarship here.
Custom Fonts: TypeMates have published a thorough detailing of their custom face production for property group Grosvenor.