Week 33, 2021
A Weekly Review of the World of Typography
Releases:
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The now well-known MD Nichrome font family from Mass-Driver has officially graduated from Future Fonts, making an impressive arrival as a fully fledged body of work. ND Nichrome made an initial splash with its 80s inspired graphic shape and proportion but has become a new favorite amongst graphic designers and fashionable brands. The family itself is available in 8 weights of both roman and oblique styles all on display in this top-shelf mini site.
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Anthro Sans from designer Samuel Oakes is a concise family of 6 weights that deliver a certain kind of delightful neutrality. With a name like Anthro Sans, you must have a certain expectation for a humanist sans, and that expectation is met in most corners of this family's features... clean lines, balanced weights, and gracious proportions. Anthro Sans is available through straple.
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Sugarshop is the latest font on FutureFonts. Designed by Typearture, Sugarshop is the deliciously layered, crunchy shadow font of your cereal-laden dreams. Sugar Shop is a family of 4 fonts designed to stack on top of one another to produce a nostalgically versatile typographic expression, whether you need a puffy, marshmallowy display face, or a pixel-ish title font, or a font that just looks like cookies.
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PSTL, the type outfit run by Mark Caneso, has released Hoss Grotesk Rounded, a squidgy and jovial rounded sans with delightful curves and well-placed creases for definition. Hoss Grotesk Rounded features a very subtle reverse contrast model across the full family of 7 weights of roman and italic designs — with the weight displacement becoming ever more exaggerated and wild with increasing weight.
Links:
Write-Up:
Lettermatic writes about their Pair of typefaces for Root Insurance.
Books:
We've always had major love for Sunday Suns, Tad Carpenter's weekly dose of sunny illustrations, but now even more that it's in printed book form!
Custom Fonts:
Toshi Omagari has produced custom font Inkulinati for video game maker Yaza Games, and writes about the project here.
News:
Commercial Type has opened their vault, that is to say their repository of unreleased, unpublished, and in several cases unfinished typefaces, to the public. Anything is license-able, you just need to register for access.
Video:
Although this video is entirely in German, it's so good to see a profile on Nina Stössinger and her work on Microsoft fonts at FJT.
Article:
Eye on Design features "Pimpit — an Athletic and Amphetamine-breathing typeface".
Online Tools:
FontBrief is a free tool created by Victor Bartis and Cristian Costea that allows you to explore typefaces by brand attributes instead of by type classifications. (via Brand New)