Pedro Leal’s Ocre typeface system is a really useful typographic tool, offering coordinated flavors of texture and a consistently energetic tone of voice in one integrated family. The tension a...
As a fan of complex solutions in type design with a soft spot for useful rather than “nice” fonts, I noticed the Breve project as soon as it was released. Breve is unquestionably a superfamil...
Diversa is a single font that contains nine different styles, all complementary but with their own personalities. It was designed to work together as a set, or as a unified team, in which single ...
Newspaper typography has been getting a lot of love from type designers over the past few years. Whereas newsprint typefaces have been largely utilitarian for decades, even centuries, improvement...
Contrasting sharp serifs with rotund ball terminals, Portuguese designer Dino dos Santos evokes the vibrant work of 18th-century punchcutter Johann Fleischman with his 2008 release of Glosa. Dos ...
Be it the pairing knife or the mezzaluna, the fish fillet knife or the meat cleaver – all of the same incising family but formally different and individually crafted for a specific set of tasks...
I licensed Estilo minutes after discovering it in Dino dos Santos’s DSTYPE library. The geometric simplicity of the characters is the basic step in this stylish Deco face’s surprising range. ...
Typographers often experience this moment: you see a “text” typeface that appears too quirky to ever be usable for setting body copy. But, upon seeing the specimen in print, you are pleasantl...