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Category: Typography

Type Love: Louize

Courtney • Feb 11, 2014Feb 10, 2014
Louize is a new serif typeface by Nonpareille, the foundry of France-based, Swiss-born Matthieu Cortat. The typeface is a contemporary   revival o...
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Type Love: Industry Inc

Courtney • Feb 4, 2014Feb 3, 2014
Industry Inc is a new typeface from Hold Fast Foundry, based on the previously released Industry family. This sans serif display face includes a coll...
Typography

Type Love: Brandon Printed

Courtney • Jan 28, 2014Jan 27, 2014
Brandon Printed is a new variation on the much loved Brandon Grotesque by HVD Fonts. This new release has a distressed, printed look and includes four...
Typography

Type Love: Grota Rounded

Courtney • Jan 21, 2014Jan 21, 2014
Grota Rounded is a new unicase release from Latinotype. The typeface includes six weights, from thin to black, plus matching italics. Currently marked...
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Type Love: Roihu

Courtney • Jan 14, 2014Jan 13, 2014
Roihu is a new sans serif typeface by Mika Melvas that includes eight upright and eight italic weights. The set also includes a huge selection of sw...
Typography

Type Love: Stay Gold

Courtney • Jan 7, 2014Jan 7, 2014
Stay Gold is one of Decade Type Foundry‘s newest releases. A vintage-inspired display script, the typeface includes a series of swashes, stylist...
Typography

Type Love: 2013 Type Favorites

Courtney • Dec 31, 2013Dec 26, 2013
It’s that time of year again! I don’t know about you but I love end-of-the-year “Best of” lists. So below I present to you a s...
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Type Love: Equip Slab

Type Love: Equip Slab

Courtney • Dec 24, 2013Dec 24, 2013
Equip Slab, by Hoftype, is the newest edition to the Equip family. The slab serif typeface includes eight weights plus italics, for a total of 16 styl...
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Type Love: Clear Sans

Courtney • Dec 17, 2013Dec 16, 2013
Clear Sans is a “rational geometric sans serif” from Positype, that has been reworked since its original introduction in 2008. The newly ...
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Type Love: Canaro

Type Love: Canaro

Courtney • Dec 10, 2013Dec 9, 2013
Canaro was released last month by Rene Bieder: Conceived as an exploration of geometrical typedesigns of the early 20th century, Canaro developed in...
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Type Love: Directa Serif

Courtney • Nov 26, 2013Nov 23, 2013
Directa Serif is a new release from Outras Fontes that is designed to save space while maximizing readability. It includes seven weights plus itali...
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Type Love: Pacific Northwest

Courtney • Nov 19, 2013Nov 18, 2013
Pacific Northwest is a whimsical handwritten font by Vancouver-based foundry Cultivated Mind. Pick up a copy at MyFonts....
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Type Love: Displace Cut

Courtney • Nov 14, 2013Nov 15, 2013
Displace Cut is a display face by Dzianis Serabrakou. It’s a special, stencil-style edition of the original Displace. Pick up a copy at MyFonts...
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Type Love: Millie

Type Love: Millie

Courtney • Nov 12, 2013Nov 30, 2013
Millie is a cool, new, angular script by Kyle Wayne Benson. Pick up a copy (at 50% off for a limited time!) at MyFonts....
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Type Love: Urge Text

Courtney • Nov 7, 2013Nov 3, 2013
Urge Text is a recent release from Schizotype that includes six weights in regular and condensed widths, plus matching italics. Check it out a pick ...
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Type Love: Post Grotesk

Courtney • Nov 5, 2013Nov 3, 2013
Post Grotesk is a new release via Village’s Incubator program, and the first typeface designed by Josh Finklea. The typeface features four feat...
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Type Love: Geli

Courtney • Oct 31, 2013Oct 20, 2013
Geli is a friendly, hand-lettered typeface by Volcano, including over 130 OpenType features. Check it out at MyFonts....
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Type Love: Grumpy

Type Love: Grumpy

Courtney • Oct 29, 2013Nov 30, 2013
Grumpy (which was used in the charity:ball invitations I posted last week) is a display face with six optical variants. Pick it up at MyFonts....
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Type Love: Odesta

Type Love: Odesta

Courtney • Oct 28, 2013Dec 3, 2013
Odesta is another recent release from Village that flew to to the top of my wishlist. Designed by Ondrej Jób of Urtd, the typeface features seven w...
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Type Love: Mrs Summer

Courtney • Oct 24, 2013Oct 20, 2013
Mrs Summer is a “a hand drawn narrow typeface with a Western touch.” This display face comes with two weights—regular and bold—all ca...
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Type Love: LCT Palissade

Courtney • Oct 22, 2013Oct 20, 2013
LCT Palissade is a formal, all caps display font by LCT. Check it out at MyFonts....
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Type Love: Superior Title

Type Love: Superior Title

Courtney • Oct 18, 2013Nov 30, 2013
Superior Title is a new release by one of my favorite type designers, Jeremy Mickel. The family is available in “five feature-rich weights&#822...
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Type Love: Quiroga

Courtney • Oct 17, 2013Oct 14, 2013
Quiroga is a space-saving serif typeface that was designed for continuous text and optimized for smaller sizes. Pick up a copy for yourself—current...
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Type Love: Helia

Courtney • Oct 15, 2013Oct 14, 2013
Helia, a semi-squared sans serif typeface by Nootype, includes eight weights—from hairline to black—plus italics, and a whole host of OpenType fe...
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Type Love: Becker Gothics

Courtney • Oct 10, 2013Oct 8, 2013
The Becker Gothics is a new display font family from Dunwich Type Founders: The Becker Gothics pay homage to the nineteenth century American lettering...
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Type Love: Felice

Courtney • Oct 8, 2013Oct 7, 2013
Felice is a new serif typeface from Nootype, featuring 10 styles, from light to black, plus italics and a slew of OpenType features. Check it out and ...
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Type Love: Brix Slab

Courtney • Oct 3, 2013Oct 2, 2013
I’ve been meaning to feature Brix Slab, an extended family of 24 fonts, for quite awhile. Designed by Hannes von Döhren & Livius Dietzel ...
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Type Love: Center

Courtney • Oct 1, 2013Sep 30, 2013
Center is a new typeface by Signal, with geometry based on a rounded rectangle. The typefaces includes 6 weights plus italics and a variety of OpenTy...
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Type Love: Respublika FY

Courtney • Sep 26, 2013Sep 25, 2013
Respublika FY is a new sans serif family by Fontyou that includes five weights plus italics. Check it out at MyFonts....
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Type Love: Equip

Courtney • Sep 24, 2013Sep 23, 2013
Equip is a new geometric sans serif from the folks at Hoftype. The typeface features 8 weights, 16 styles and a plethora of OpenType features....
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Type Love: Directors Gothic

Courtney • Sep 20, 2013Sep 19, 2013
The condensed, elongated Directors Gothic, a revival from the 1938 original, is a new favorite. Here’s a bit about its history: Handcrafted by ...
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Type Love: Asterism

Courtney • Sep 18, 2013Sep 17, 2013
Asterism is a gorgeous new calligraphic font from Great Lakes Lettering. Pick it up at MyFonts....
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Type Love: MVB Solitaire Pro

Courtney • Sep 16, 2013Sep 13, 2013
The latest release from MVB Fonts is MVB Solitaire Pro, a sleek sans serif that was designed and built to primarily serve content, as opposed to drawi...
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Type Love: Breakers Slab™

Courtney • Sep 12, 2013Sep 11, 2013
Breakers Slab is a companion to the sans serif typeface Breakers, designed by Kostic Type Foundry. It features six weights, each including small caps...
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Type Love: Selektor Slab

Courtney • Sep 11, 2013Sep 10, 2013
Selektor Slab is a new extension to the Selektor font family. Published by You Work for Them, the typeface was inspired by and designed with “t...
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Type Love: Pétala Pro

Courtney • Sep 9, 2013Sep 6, 2013
Pétala Pro is a new superfamily released by Typefolio that includes 18 weights plus italics. Pick it up at MyFonts....
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Type Love: Metro Nova

Courtney • Sep 6, 2013Sep 5, 2013
Metro Nova is a new release from Linotype which is an update of the 1929 modern classic by W.A. Dwiggins. The newly updated family includes seven weig...
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Type Love: Riona Sans

Courtney • Aug 30, 2013Aug 20, 2013
Riona Sans is a sans serif family of 16 fonts in 8 weights, including true italics. Pick it up at MyFonts for 80% off for a limited time....
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Type Love: Lust Script

Courtney • Aug 27, 2013Aug 26, 2013
Lust Script is a new extension of the Lust family by Positype, which includes both regular and display formats. Pick it up at MyFonts....
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Indie Type Designers

Gerren Lamson • Aug 27, 2013Aug 27, 2013
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 ...
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Type Love: Encorpada Classic

Courtney • Aug 21, 2013Aug 20, 2013
Encorpada Classic is a beautiful serif that was designed with “functional considerations” in mind. Released by dooType last month, this f...
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Type Love: Summit

Type Love: Summit

Courtney • Jul 31, 2013Dec 1, 2013
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 ...
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Type Love: HWT Slab

Courtney • Jul 30, 2013Jul 29, 2013
The most recent release from Hamilton Wood Type Foundry is HWT Slab, a set of two display fonts. Pick up a copy on MyFonts....
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Type Love: Sini

Courtney • Jul 29, 2013Jul 26, 2013
Sini is described as “a warm and delicious hand-lettered” typeface, which includes two styles, bold and ornaments. Pick up a copy for your...
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Type Love: Gentona

Courtney • Jul 22, 2013Jul 22, 2013
Gentona is a new release from Rene Bieder… Designed for a wide range of applications, Gentona was intended to support the goals of contemporary...
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Type Love: JAF Facit

Courtney • Jul 18, 2013Jul 17, 2013
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 fe...
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Type Love: Prohibition

Courtney • Jul 16, 2013Jul 15, 2013
The latest release from Hold Fast Foundry is Prohibition, a sans serif display face that includes sylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, and m...
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Type Love: Doctrine Stencil

Courtney • Jul 11, 2013Jul 11, 2013
Doctrine Stencil is a “utilitarian display typeface with a muscular character” from Jonathan Barnbrook’s Virus foundry. The typeface...
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Type Love: Built

Type Love: Built

Courtney • Jul 8, 2013Dec 1, 2013
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...
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Type Love: Aisha

Courtney • Jul 2, 2013Jul 8, 2013
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. Wa...
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Type Love: Rolling Pen

Courtney • Jun 26, 2013Jun 25, 2013
Rolling Pen is a new script from Suditupos. Similar to their 2009 release Business Penmanship, Rolling Pen was inspired by vintage hand-writing and ca...
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Type Love: Preto Sans and Preto Serif

Courtney • Jun 25, 2013Jun 24, 2013
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 wid...
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Type Love: Paperback

Type Love: Paperback

Courtney • Jun 24, 2013Dec 3, 2013
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 re...
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Type Love: Bicyclette

Courtney • Jun 20, 2013Jun 19, 2013
Bicyclette is a new sans serif typeface by Nikola Kostic, whose name was chosen because it is “all about balance and elegance.” The famil...
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Type Love: Tenso

Courtney • Jun 18, 2013Jun 17, 2013
Tenso is the latest from Jos Buivenga’s foundry exljbris. This friendly sans serif includes five weights, from light to black, plus italics. Pi...
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Type Love: Nyte

Courtney • Jun 14, 2013Jun 17, 2013
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 alter...
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Type Love: Richler

Courtney • Jun 7, 2013Jun 17, 2013
Richler is a beautiful new serif family from Shinntype. Described as “an open, evenly spaced book face designed for quality headlines and enhan...
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Type Love: Klinic Slab

Courtney • Jun 4, 2013Jun 17, 2013
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...
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Type Love: Adriane Swash

Courtney • May 30, 2013Jun 17, 2013
Adriane Swash, a companion to Adriane Text, includes uppercase, lowercase and small caps, as well as a wide range of OpenType features, including al...
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Type Love: Diversa

Courtney • May 28, 2013Jun 17, 2013
Diversa is an interesting new display face from DSType: Diversa is a single typeface with 9 fonts within, containing 2760 glyphs, divide in 9 stylisti...
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