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Plastic
The eighties are everywhere. Love them or hate them, over the past several years it has been almost impossible to escape the resurgence of bright neon colors, flashy animal prints, neoliberal ide...
Brenner
Editorial designer Reed Reibstein: “Type palettes shouldn’t be blandly uniform, especially in publication design. Variety is necessary not only for functional roles (headline versus caption, ...
Aglet Slab
Aglet Slab is part of a powerful trio of typefaces that XYZ Type launched with last year. Along with Export and Cortado, Aglet Slab hints at what we can expect from the partnership of Ben Kiel an...
Atahualpa
Atahualpa is full of surprises. At first glance, I found myself fascinated by individual letters: the y! The other y! The k, the a, the g, the B! The alternate italic Q! The swelling of the ascen...
Pathos
What are serifs? When I first started looking at type, I thought of serifs as decorative additions to letters, intended to lend some finish and distinctiveness to the design. After more careful c...
Nordvest
Among typefaces, there are the workhorses: humble, durable, with subtle senses of charm. And then there are the domestic pets: attention-grabbing, delicate, and meant to be cherished alone. Nordv...
Mala
In Portuguese, Mala means suitcase, and although this Mala has nothing to do with suitcases, I find the name very appropriate for Barbara Bigosińska’s lovely typeface inspired by cartography. ...
Algebra
I first became aware of Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau in Footnotes, where they published an article about their revival of Josef Müller-Brockmann’s typewriter typeface Candia. It was a nice s...
Gimlet
Don’t let recent political events taint the name or overschadow the remarkable work of the German designer Georg Trump (1896–1985). I’m pretty sure that Georg and Donald aren’t related. G...
Hatch
Reverse-stress typefaces have a tipping point. If the contrast is pushed too far — if the horizontals become a bit too heavy in relation to the verticals — suddenly the type can look ...
Equitan
The nineteenth century has been a thing for some time now. There’s no shortage of good new typefaces drawing on the sturdy, forthright jobbing types of great founders like Miller & Richard and ...
Municipal Cast
While strolling through various cities on my travels, the design of manhole covers often captures my attention. In most cases, it’s the illustration on them that attracts me. House Industries�...
Ocre
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...
Phoreus Cherokee
Four years ago, in a conference room filled with type enthusiasts, three representatives of the Cherokee Nation explained why the world still needs more fonts. Of their 316,000 members (the large...
Velo Serif
Velo Serif won my heart four seconds after hitting my inbox with seductive gifs and a big ‘ä’. No one was surprised. I have a super-soft spot for squarish serifs. I love Zapf Book, not Palat...
Fakt Slab Stencil
A quality stencil font is nothing new from Thomas Thiemich. As I pointed out last year, his Remo is the first typeface I know to have a stencil released before its regular versions, and it’s a ...
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Mønster
Jǫtunn. A giant. Crashing out of wooded mountains, shocking. Hulking, lumbering. Unable to form long sentences. And unable to apologize. But Mønster is easily misunderstood, even by its ostensi...
Duplicate
Although it counts as one of the most popular typefaces of the 20th century, I never really paid much attention to Antique Olive. But, last year, this suddenly changed. I noticed it being used mo...
Lumin
Do you know Bonnie “Prince” Billy? This amazing musician releases a new record every few months, on various labels, with changing partners, and without any drop in quality. Nikola Djurek som...
Capita
It is really easy to go from a list of sixty-odd typefaces to a shortlist of around six. Some will be triumphs of execution over vision, forgetting that the larger the family, the bigger the need...
Henriette
Based in Vienna, Typejockeys are three young designers — Anna Fahrmaier, Thomas Gabriel und Michael Hochleitner — with a broad palette of activities. They make graphic design for prin...
Stan
Some typefaces are so nice, you don’t know what to say. They are neatly drawn, have plenty of neatly interpolated weights, are awesomely legible in small sizes while (ha) interesting in large �...
Shift
Embrace designs that give a tacit nod to history without making contemporary words look like they’re wearing a cravat. Shift’s appeal, beyond utility, is a quirk of prescient timing and 2012 ...
Tabac Slab
I’ll be the first to admit that my attention is always drawn to new slab releases — especially those that are part of a superfamily — so it’s no surprise that Tomáš Brousil’s Tabac Sl...
Karloff
Twenty years ago, mash-ups Dead History and Fudoni looked every bit the post-modern protagonists in The End of Print. Now Karloff is a less obvious kind of critical design: conceptual. Peter Biľ...
Heron
Another typeface by Cyrus Highsmith, another safe pick for the “best of” list. This year, though, it’s hard to decide what’s best of all the releases of one of the most talented and influ...
Pitch
Unfortunately, there is not much I could tell you about the design of the riveting new typewriter face called Pitch that Kris Sowersby has not already published in his extensive process notes. Th...
Zizou
Roger Excoffon (1910–1983) was the most talented French type designer of the 20th century and probably the most prolific in the whole of French typographic history. Being an admirer of Excoffon...
Outsiders
Somewhere between the lands of slab, sans serif, and typewriter there lives Outsiders. In the roman it appears an elegant, sartorial slab, somehow holding itself above all others of its kind, wit...
Salvo
Salvo is a multi-faceted series that’s hard to pin down. It can be used in a very corporate, serious way by making extensive use of its numerous variants – five weights in three widths, plus ...
Cassia
A new face for text, Cassia deserves a spot among the most interesting work from 2011. Every typeface has a narrative behind it, but first let’s explore Cassia’s design details: Cassia is a m...
Archer
A slew of slab serifs were released in 2008. Most of them continuing last year’s trend of following the cute and chunky approach, often to delicious effect. But as marvelous as so many of those...
Stag
If at the end of our current decade slab serifs are the new black, then Christian Schwartz may be the new Maggie Prescott. In 2005, Schwartz and Barnes’ Guardian included a masterful retelling ...
Vista Slab
I discovered Xavier Dupré’s work ten years ago, and design after design I’m surprised by his ability to mix typographic tradition, writing influence, and contemporary interpretation. Xavier ...
Rocky
Rocky knocked me out. When I first saw it used as a featured face for headlines over at Typophile, I was stunned that there was just nothing wrong with it. Another Typophile user wrote: “It has...
Minuscule
Thomas Huot-Marchand, the designer, goes to extreme lengths to explain these details, but the first thing I did was to print a page from the PDF specimen provided. ... Some of the tricks employed...
Leitura
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...
Guardian
Given the rare chance to build a comprehensive type system from scratch for a major newspaper redesign, Barnes and Schwartz met the challenge. A slab-serif design with a large x-height, low contr...