Category Type Love

Indie Type Designers

For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from Gerren Lamson of Creative Market. For more from Gerren, be sure to check out his shop and follow…

Type Love: Encorpada Classic

Encorpada Classic is a beautiful serif that was designed with “functional considerations” in mind. Released by dooType last month, this family of 14 fonts in 7 weights and italics is on deep discount at MyFonts for a limited time.

Type Love: Summit

Summit is a new display face designed by Luke Lisi, which includes a layering system of 10 styles in five weights. Check out how some of the layering effects can work below, and pick up a copy for yourself on…

Type Love: Sini

Sini is described as “a warm and delicious hand-lettered” typeface, which includes two styles, bold and ornaments. Pick up a copy for yourself at MyFonts.

Type Love: Gentona

Gentona is a new release from Rene Bieder… Designed for a wide range of applications, Gentona was intended to support the goals of contemporary design paired with a mostly swiss oriented demand on typography – neutrality. The result is a nine-weight…

Type Love: JAF Facit

JAF Facit was designed in 2005, but is a new find for me. It was designed by Tim Ahrens through Just Another Foundry, which he started in 2004, and features six weights, plus italics. Pick up a copy at MyFonts.

Type Love: Prohibition

The latest release from Hold Fast Foundry is Prohibition, a sans serif display face that includes sylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, and multiple language support. Pick it up at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out my type wishlist, current favorites and favorite calligraphic scripts on MyFonts.

Type Love: Doctrine Stencil

Doctrine Stencil is a “utilitarian display typeface with a muscular character” from Jonathan Barnbrook’s Virus foundry. The typeface features five different weights, from thin to black. Pick it up at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out my type wishlist, current favorites and favorite calligraphic scripts…

Type Love: Built

Built is a new release from Ray Larabie’s foundry, Typodermic, that is intended to be used for the purpose of making solid, compact headlines onscreen. The family features five weights plus italics. Want more type? Check out my type wishlist, current favorites and favorite calligraphic scripts on MyFonts.

Type Love: Aisha

Aisha, designed by Titus Nemeth, is a soft, friendly script that supports both Latin and Arabic characters. Pick up a copy for yourself at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out my type wishlist, current favorites and favorite calligraphic scripts on MyFonts.

Type Love: Rolling Pen

Rolling Pen is a new script from Suditupos. Similar to their 2009 release Business Penmanship, Rolling Pen was inspired by vintage hand-writing and calligraphy. Pick up a copy for yourself at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out my type wishlist, current favorites and…

Type Love: Preto Sans and Preto Serif

Designed by Ján Filípek, Preto is an extensive type family that includes a collection of over 16 fonts that include sans, serif, italics and a wide variety of OpenType features. Preto Sans   Preto Serif Want more type? Check out my type wishlist,…

Type Love: Paperback

Last week House Industries introduced Paperback, a set of 15 serif fonts including both text and display cuts, plus a series of ornaments. This new release takes on the process of designing typefaces for use at specific sizes, something that…

Type Love: Bicyclette

Bicyclette is a new sans serif typeface by Nikola Kostic, whose name was chosen because it is “all about balance and elegance.” The family includes six upright weights, plus one set of italics. Pick up a copy—discounted for a limited time—at MyFonts.…

Type Love: Tenso

Tenso is the latest from Jos Buivenga’s foundry exljbris. This friendly sans serif includes five weights, from light to black, plus italics. Pick up a copy for yourself at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out my type wishlist, current favorites and favorite calligraphic scripts on MyFonts.

Type Love: Nyte

Nyte is a 2012 release from DSType. This serif family was originally designed for New York Times Magazine, and features all sorts of swashes and alternate characters, adding up to 850 glyphs. Pick up a copy at MyFonts. Want more…

Type Love: Richler

Richler is a beautiful new serif family from Shinntype. Described as “an open, evenly spaced book face designed for quality headlines and enhanced readability in text, the typeface includes two weights plus italics, a highlight font and various OpenType features. Pick…