Week 32, 2021

A Weekly Review of the World of Typography

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Releases:

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Lygia Sans is a higher contrast sans family from designer Flavia Zimbardi, released this week on Future Fonts. Inspired by Rio de Janeiro's landscape, architecture, and the full bloom of the Neo-Concrete movement clustered in the 1950s, Lygia Sans was designed to match in color with its serif companion but embracing a new personality that nod towards a more calligraphic and elegant approach, as seem in Warren Chappell’s Lydian (released in 1938).

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Sudtipos has released Milanesa Serif, a fashion-forward display serif family of 7 fonts delivering an emphatically edgy contrast model to a wide letterbase and all the modern trimmings. According to the foundry, "Milanesa Serif is a typeface family that changes the contrast angle in its black version, achieving a particular transition in the different interpolations."

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DJR Font of the month:  Megazoid

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Links:

Books:
Definitely snagging a copy of Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design by Briar Levit. 

Branding:
Intercom's statement about its recent brand evolution is interesting. 

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