This is the second installment of the 2025/FW series, gradually picking up from where we left off in July. Last week’s post covered pubications, articles, and other news of the past six months or so. Today we look at new foundries announced in this period which, in addition to the foundries covered throughout the year, should form the complete list of foundries established in 2025 . ÁccentiaType…
Chipping away at the 2025 backlog, one post at a time. Publications: Published by Niggli, The quick classification guide for typography is the printed companion to the typ/o project led by Eva Kubinyi at FH Aachen. The authors present a selection of more than one hundred relevant typefaces, supplemented by historical background, user-relevant information and explanations of their special formal…
Still on the monthly schedule at the moment with a look at the typeface releases, updates, and expansions published since the last edition and up to around June 12nd. Adobe Originals released as a standalone typeface the sans serif Chidori , originally designed by Frank Grießhammer to provide Latin coverage for Momochidori , released earlier this year with a Japanese script designed by Ryoko…
In what turned out to be a second consecutive catch-up edition, here’s a look at the typeface releases of the past month, up to May 14th. 205TF released Indiana , a geometric sans with short ascenders and descenders that mirrors the engineering of modern pneumatics, blending flexibility with strength, comfort with energy, and speed with calm , designed by Malou Verlomme . Available in six weights…
Back from a short break to almost a month’s worth of typeface releases and type-related announcements. To keep things manageable, I’ve saved some of the most recent news for next week’s edition. Aieou Tools released Untimes , a single-style, blobby serif typeface designed by César Bourgeois and Marta Gaggi . [ aeiou.tools ] Alphabets Patrick Nell released APN Chora , a contemporary humanist roman…
A double-feature look at the typeface releases of the past two weeks. Bea Korsh released Cake4Freaks , a typeface inspired by Gerrit Noordzij’s sketching technique. At large sizes, the zigzags carve the page into abstraction—darting, curving, crossing in a labyrinth of letterforms organic and bizarre. At small sizes, however, they solidify into the silvery shapes of a textface modeled on the broad…
A look at the type releases of the past week. 205TF released Naancy , a filiform display sans drawing from architecture—its rhythm, the juxtaposition of styles, the play of light and shadow, the layout of facades, motifs and ornaments—and from nature, with its unexpected forms, curves, and intertwining shapes , designed by Damien Gautier . With several alternate letterforms and discretionary…
A look at the typeface releases of the past week. Adam Ladd supplemented the optical sizes of Fields , a serif typeface influenced by ITC Souvenir (ITC, 1970) and originally released in 2023, with the rounded, low-contrast Big Ultra style. [ ladd-design.com ] Aieou Tools released Zetal , a geometric sans designed by Andrea Biggio , inspired by the industrial modernism of signage on water tanks and…
Just in time for the weekend, a look at the type releases of the past week. Alanna Munro released Angus Hand , a single-weight handwriting typeface based on samples of love letters written from Victoria, Canada in 1955 by the designer’s grandfather. The original handwriting was preserved as the Casual style, interpolated with the more formal Calligraphy style along a ‘tidiness’ variation axis. […
Almarena Foundry released Joyse , a single-style geometric sans with 70s influences designed by Jérémie Gauthier . Atypical released Luxurious , a display serif initially designed by George Triantafyllakos for the Athens-based design studio Another Practice. Available in a single weight with support for the Latin and Greek scripts. Blaze Type released Narri , a display typeface inspired by the…
Atipo released Swiza , a sans serif inspired by the timeless principles of Swiss design, reimagined for today’s needs . Blaze Type released the Dean collection designed by Tim Vanhille and Inès Davodeau , a tribute to the musical and cinematic culture of mid-20th century America . The collection is comprised of two families of identical proportions, Dean Gothic and Dean Slab , expressed as…
A look at the typefaces released this past week. bb-bureau released Resum , a dot-matrix typeface designed by Benoît Bodhuin whose variable weight axis influences the dot size and, through subtle movement, the perceived resolution. Bold Decisions supplemented with a set of heavier weights True Serif , a sturdy family distilled from a few ’60s 70’s typefaces , originally designed in 2023 by Mads…
A look at the type releases of the past week. (Now with some corrections and additions.) Beasts of England released Friend , a condensed serif typeface with softened outlines designed by Simon Walker . Capitalics released Magiore , a geometric sans designed by Mateusz Machalski , available as a variable font with width and weight axes. Earlier in December 2024, the foundry released Fliper ,…
Kicking off the new year with a look at the type releases of the past week and a half — now with images! Blaze Type released Sature , a display typeface that evokes felt-tip marker lettering, designed by Nicolas Dupuis . Brandon Nickerson released BN Gallant , an interpretation of Churchward Typestyle (2002). Huerta Tipográfica released Betània Patmos , a script typeface intended for early reading…
A look at the type releases, updates, and expansions of the past week. DJR released Fit U&lc , an update of the all-caps, space-filling Fit (2017) that adds lowercase characters, designed by David Jonathan Ross as the November offering of the Font of the Month Club. En Travaux released Peridia , a display serif whose bold proportions and tight spacing allow for playful and mycelian…
A look at the type releases, updates, and expansions of the past week. Bold Monday released Merwede , a uniwidth text serif that synthesizes diverse influences, designed by Titus Schulz and shaped by his experience as a book designer. Brandon Nickerson released BN Boxer , an interpretation of Square (Mecanorma, ~1972). Bureau Brut released on the newly-redesigned foundry website a condensed width…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Cantrell Type released Cantrell Grotesk , an interpretation of Phönix-Grotesk (Krebs, 1914) with a humanist slant, designed by Kevin Cantrell (via Proof&Co. Weekly ). F37 Foundry released F37 Confusa , a single-weight, all-caps display typeface with merged letterforms, designed by Cecilia Erlich . Giulia Boggio released the initial version of DGM Fette…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Arillatype.Studio released At Chrome , a sharp, modern sans-serif font that captures the bright, intelligent, yet warm and breathing essence of present and future technology designed by Pedro Arilla . Atipo released Nudica Mono , the monospaced counterpart to Nudica , a typeface released earlier this year. Bea Korsh released the initial version of…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Blaze Type released Balete , a no-curves serif designed by John David Maza . Brandon Nickerson released BN Mitchel , a blocky display sans with irregular outlines. MuccaTypo released Seminario , an all-caps Art Nouveau flared serif designed by Matteo Bologna . MuccaTypo also released a second modernist all-caps typeface designed by Bologna, named…
A look at the type releases of the past week. 205TF released the Milling collection of machining typefaces designed by Tanguy Vanlaeys and published on a new, streamlined foundry website . 29Letters released 29LT Idris , an Arabic typeface in the Naskh calligraphic style designed by Pascal Zoghbi , with a Latin companion designed by Linda Hintz . Along with weight and contrast axes, the variable…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Alanna Munro released Stornoway , a sans serif with a contrast axis, on the newly-redesigned foundry website. Blaze Type released Rondette , an inline display sans with ’70s influences designed by Fabrizio Falcone . Also from Blaze Type, Intermedial Slab is a slab serif with a contrast axis designed by Karol Mularczyk . Dinamo released Otto , an…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Brandon Nickerson released BN Binder , a blocky display typeface based on a VCG specimen from the ’70s. CAST released Sorella , a typographic adaptation by Luis Castellón of the lettering produced by Angela Baroni for Beatae Mariae Virginis Officium (1740, Venice) (via Typecache ). Daytona Mess published on Future Fonts a first version of Transept , a…
A look at the type releases of the past week. A2-Type released No Parking , a display typeface by Henrik Kubel modeled after vernacular lettering found on a sidewalk in New York City. Blast Foundry released Big Issue , an editorial sans rooted in historical British grotesque type, designed by Barbara Bigosińska and Diana Ovezea . Blaze Type released Indecisive Sans and Indecisive Mono , the…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Altiplano released Citizen Grotesk Poster , a display sans designed by Raphaël Verona that applies the methodical spirit characteristic of the International Style to move beyond the fantasy of purity, universalism, and neutrality . Blaze Type released Systm , a modular / dot matrix typeface designed by Simon Helmstetter . Also from Blaze Type, Collapse…
A look at the type releases of the past week. DDOTT released Aether , the proportionally-spaced counterpart to Aether Mono designed by Dominik Thieme . Dinamo released Pelikan , an an unpolished sans with a special unicase feature baked inside , designed by Fabian Harb and Fabiola Mejía . DSType released Miura Slab , a slab serif counterpart to the Miura collection designed by Pedro Leal and Dino…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Black Foundry released Julia , a cursive typeface designed by Gaëtan Baehr . Blackletra released Drummond , a serif typeface designed by Emerson Eller based on matrices for a beautiful face, sixteenth century French in style, resembling but not the same as the Median Romain used by Garamont from the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Blast Foundry…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Arillatype released At Umami , a rounded sans inspired by Japanese visual culture designed by Pedro Arilla and Julián Moncada . ArrowType published on Future Fonts an update to Kyrios , a curious, slightly psychedelic blackletter family designed by Stephen Nixon , to include a weight axis, Blackletter uppercase, and an extended character set. Brandon…
Back from vacation with a look at the type releases of the past two weeks. Atipo released Rawest , a geometric sans. Brandon Nickerson mantains the weekly cadence with BN Rambunk , an interpretation of Implode (1960s), and BN Danimal , a slightly slanted display sans. DJR released Forma DJR Mono , the monospaced counterpart to Forma DJR designed by Ruggero Magrí and David Jonathan Ross . East of…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Brandon Nickerson released BN Zipline , an uppercase-only display slab serif. CAST released Scotus Sans , a humanist sans by Giulio Galli , Riccardo Olocco , and Luciano Perondi (via Typecache ). Production Type released Gamuth Sans , the latest addition to the Gamuth collection designed by Max Esnée . TypeType released TT Modernoir by Antonina…
A look at the type releases of the past week. From Black Foundry , the alpha release (basic Latin character set) of Numero.02 , a gothic sans by Solenn Bordeau referencing a historical American design. Bordeau also shares credit with Ben Hartley for Cæsura , a bold display serif. Blaze Type released Sizek , a display typeface by Sandro Bonomo that takes inspiration from digital glitches. Meanwhile…
A look at the type releases of the past week. CAST released Sole Serif Rounded by Giulio Galli and Luciano Perondi , a softer version of the newspaper typeface Sole Serif (via Typecache ). Public Type released Cina Sans , a neo-grotesque sans by Michael Cina . Displaay expanded Matter and Haffer into collections of proportional, semi-mono, and monospaced variants. More details in the announcement…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Dalton Maag released Fraise , a humanist sans by Pablo Bosch inspired by Roger Excoffon’s Antique Olive . Joc by Sabina Kipară has graduated from Future Fonts and has been reissued with Type-Ø-Tones . Along with Joc, Type-Ø-Tones has also soft-launched this August: Unicaster by José Manuel Urós , an unicase sans based on unidentified type from the 60s.…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Brandon Nickerson released BN Arora , an interpretation of Dante (Schelter & Giesecke, 1900). Office of Personal Responsibility released on Future Fonts the initial version of OPR Forum , a serif informed by Renaissance constructed letterforms by Maximilian Inzinger . Sharp Type released Sharp Roman , a typeface by Lucas Sharp . Superior Type released…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Brandon Nickerson released BN Social , an interpretation of a 70s geometric sans. CAST released Kornel , a seriffed typeface for longform text by Radek Łukasiewicz . David Jonathan Ross released Roslindale Compressed along with an Extra Condensed width as the July offering for the Font of the Month Club. The mini-site for Roslindale was also enriched…
A look at the type releases of the past week. Badson Type Foundry , the type design arm of Badson Studio, launched with four new typefaces in the catalog: Grigio Serif , Porter Sans , Ginny Sans , and Armond , all by Kyle Read . Blaze Type released Daimito by Karol Mularczyk . Brandon Nickerson released BN Kendall . Dalton Maag released Perenelle Sans and Perenelle Serif by Robert Pratley .…
A look at the type releases of the past week. 29Letters added support for Arabic to their 29LT Azahar collection in the form of 29LT Azahar Display AL and 29LT Azahar Text AL by Naïma Ben Ayed . Blast Foundry released Vanilla Sans by Rafał Buchner and Barbara Bigosińska . Brandon Nickerson released BN Sammy . DualType debuted Luska by Gen Ramírez and Zrinka Buljubašić on Future Fonts. FDI Type…
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Type Atlas news! As with everything on the website, this will probably go through a few iterations. For now, keeping it on the shorter side. Here are some typeface releases from the past week: Arillatype.Studio released At Koba by Jon Zabalegui . Black Foundry released Blaacck by Jérémie Hornus and Solenn Bordeau . Blaze Type released Silvana Text by Siri Lee…