Category Type Love

Type Love: Klinic Slab

I have a bit of a weakness for slab serifs, so Lost Type Co-op’s latest release, Klinic Slab, is right up my alley. Designed by Joe Prince, the typeface includes four weights, plus italics and many Open Type features, all within…

Type Love: Adriane Swash

Adriane Swash, a companion to Adriane Text, includes uppercase, lowercase and small caps, as well as a wide range of OpenType features, including alternate glyphs, stylistic ligatures, ornaments and language support. Pick up a copy at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out…

Type Love: Diversa

Diversa is an interesting new display face from DSType: Diversa is a single typeface with 9 fonts within, containing 2760 glyphs, divide in 9 stylistic sets, but the main difference is that all the glyphs are kerned with each other,…

Type Love: Gin

Gin is a new release from Hold Fast Foundry, a vintage-inspired display face that includes stylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, and multiple language support. Pick up a copy on sale for a limited time at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out…

Type Love: Esmeralda Pro

Esmeralda is a new display serif from Sudtipos, which was heavily influenced by classic capitals carved in stone, and includes a huge amount of ligatures and alternate glyphs. The design possibilities Esmeralda offers are extensive, to say the least, and I’m…

Type Love: HWT Unit Gothic

HWT Unit Gothic is the latest release from the Hamilton Wood Type Foundry, a digitization of the Unit Gothic series, which was released by Hamilton Manufacturing Co. in 1907. The family consists of seven fonts, each containing 600 glyphs that include Greek…

Type Love: Live

Live is a new release by Lián Types The lively brush script features three fonts, Pro, Standard and Live More which includes a set of pre-designed catch words and ornaments. Pick up a copy for yourself at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out…

Type Love: Historism Border 2D

Historism Border 2D is an ornamental font family consisting of various friezes and patterns grouped into four fonts. All of the ornaments were based on elements of architectural decorations of Lviv buildings in Ukraine. Pick it up at MyFonts. Want…

Type Love: Tomato

Tomato is a new discovery for me, but it was actually produced in 2005 by Canada Type. This curvy display face is actually an expanded digitization of an early 1970s Franklin Photolettering film type called Viola Flare. The complete family features various sets of alternates,…

Type Love: Kana Sans

Kana Sans was released earlier this year by GT & CANARY, a New York City studio founded by Takaaki Goto, a type designer from Japan. Kana Sans features six weights, from thin to black, plus matching italics. Pick it up at MyFonts. Want more…

Type Love: Verb and Verb Condensed

Verb and Verb Condensed are two sans serif families from Yellow Design Studio. Verb Condensed is just a slightly more condensed version of the original, with more classic proportions. You can currently pick either set up on deep discount ($29…

Type Love: Poster

Poster is a new release from Type-Ø-Tones designed by Íñigo Jerez. Want more type? Check out my Type Wishlist, current Favorites and Calligraphic scripts on MyFonts.

Type Love: Program

Program is a new sans serif from Emigre. Designed by Zuzana Licko, Program is a “type designer’s typeface”: …It’s about the craft of typeface design and the particular details and effects that type designers fret over when they design type. It…

Type Love: Icing

I’ve been loving everything Great Lakes Lettering has produced since they launched at the end of last year; and Icing, their newest font, is no exception. I especially love the idea of combining Icing with their other fonts for personalized envelope addressing. They…

Type Love: Quant

Quant is a beautiful new serif from Hoftype. The family includes eight styles, support for over 40 languages and more, proving it to be “well-equipped for ambitious typography.” Pick up a copy for yourself at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out…

Type Love: Grey Sans

Grey Sans is “a contemporary sans with an angular design” by Canada-based foundry Greyscale Type. Want more type? Check out my Type Wishlist and current Favorites on MyFonts.

Type Love: HWT Catchwords

HWT Catchwords was released earlier this month by Hamilton Wood Type Foundry. HWT Catchwords features over 80 words based directly on designs offered by Hamilton and other wood type manufacturers of the 19th and early 20th Century. Want more type? Check…

Type Love: Arek

Arek is a serif typeface from Rosetta, designed for both Latin and Armenian languages. Originally designed for textbooks, the family features beautiful calligraphic forms and plenty of expert features. Pick it up at MyFonts. Want more type? Check out my Type Wishlist and…