Type Love: Filmotype Manchester
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Originally released in the late 1960s, Filmotype Manchester has recently been reissued with new refinements and expansions. Along with Miner and Ma...
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Courtney • Type Love: Alda
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You may remember that I already posted about Alda in 2010, back when it was still a work-in-progress. Well, I just happened to stumble upon it again ...
Type Love: HWT American Chromatic
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HWT American Chromatic is the first release from the Hamilton Wood Type Foundry, a new collaboration between P22 and the Hamilton Wood Type & Prin...
Type Love: Susa
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Susa, by Hubert Jocham Type, is currently one of my favorite casual scripts. Pick it up at MyFonts....
Type Love: Lexia
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Lexia is another Dalton Maag typeface originally created in 2007. The friendly slab serif features six weights plus italics. Pick it up right here....
Type Love: Foco
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I’m loving the playful softness of Foco, a typeface published by Dalton Maag from 2007....
Type Love: Gigalypse
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I’m currently loving Gigalypse, a new chunky square sans serif from Dunwich Type Founders....
Type Love: Steinweiss Script
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I’ve had my eye on Steinweiss Script for awhile, a typeface that was originally developed as cover lettering for a Taschen edition on the work o...
Type Love: Luella
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Luella is a whimsical, vintage-inspired, hand-drawn font by Cultivated Mind. Pick it up at You Work for Them....
Type Together Workhorses
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Type Together makes so many great workhorse typefaces, both serif and sans serif, that can work for an incredibly wide range of applications. I would ...
Type Love 206: Nat Grotesk
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Nat Grotesk, a family of 14 styles and 4 weights by Paratype, has a sort of vintage feel that I’ve been drawn to lately. Pick it up at You Wor...
Type Love 205: Proxima Nova Soft
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Proxima Nova Soft is a rounded version of Mark Simonson’s popular Proxima Nova. Fun fact: this Soft cut was originally designed for use as a web...
Fonts by Pablo Moreno
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For the month of August, a series of guests will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from Jason Johnson who fights...
Type Love 204: Sixta
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Sixta is a new sans serif typeface from Hoftype, which comes in six weights. Get a closer look at MyFonts....
Type Love 203: Henriette
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Henriette is a new, historically-influenced serif typeface by Typejockeys. Here’s a bit of info about its origin: In the 1920s the Viennese gov...
Type Love 202: Valuco
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I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of Valuco since Aesthetic Apparatus announced its development with a Kickstarter project earlier this y...
Type Love 201: Glenlake
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Glenlake is a new addition to Filmotype’s extensive library of vintage fonts. This one in particular was originally designed and released in 195...
Type Love 200: Colette
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Village is one of my favorite type shops. I’d love to own their entire library, but right now I especially have my eye on some of their 2012 rel...
Type Love 199: Memoire
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Memoire is a gorgeous linear, hairline contemporary sans by Reserves. Pick it up at MyFonts....
Type Love 198: Andes Italic
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Latinotype has recently added Italic styles to their original Andes family. Check it out on MyFonts—it’s on super sale for a limited time. &nb...
Type Love 197: Ninfa Serif
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Ninfa Serif, designed by Brazilian foundry dootype, was built from the “genetic inheritance” of their earlier semi-serif design, Ninfa....
Type Love 196: Halogen
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On the heels of Idlewild’s release comes Halogen, another extended typeface but with more quirky details. Designed by Positype, Halogen features...
Type Love 195: Adelle Sans
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A little while back I mentioned that Adelle Sans, the sans serif companion typeface to TypeTogether’s popular Adelle, was being designed. Well l...
Type Love 194: Winco
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I’m loving the quirky personality of Winco, a new typeface from Re-Type. At first glance it may look like your typical sans serif, but upon clos...
Type Love 193: Bulo
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Bulo, which means “hoax” in Catalan, is a new sans serif family by Barcelona-based foundry Tipografies. The typeface was specifically des...
Type Love 192: Magallanes
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Latinotype seems to be cranking out fonts at extremely high speeds these days. Magallanes is one of their latest, a “neo humanist sans serifR...
Type Love 191: Jocham
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Meet Jocham, the first typeface created by Hubert Jocham that also bears his name. The bold script was developed from the lettering used to create hi...
Type Love 190: Vibro
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I’ve had my eye on Vibro ever since it was released on MyFonts back in March. It’s certainly not the most versatile font in the world, but...
Type Love 189: Sofia Pro
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Sofia Pro is a 16-font sans serif type family that was originally designed in 2008 by Oliver Gourvat. This year it’s been redesigned to suppor...
Type Love 188: Armitage
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I’ve recently discovered Dunwich Type Founders, a New York-based foundry with a handful of solid typefaces available for licensing. Armitage, i...
Type Love 187: Foro
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Foro is an elegant slab serif by Hoftype featuring 8 weights and italics. Pick it up at Myfonts. ...
Type Love 186: Argumentum
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Argumentum is a new sans serif family from Kostic, a Serbia-based foundry. It features six weights plus italics, an extended set of monetary symbols ...
Type Love 185: Fancy Antique Display
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Fancy Antique Display features the perfect mix of solids and stripes. Designed by Morten Iveland, the font was inspired by French decorative alphabe...
Type Love 184: King Wood
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King Wood is a new release from Canada Type which they classify as a “gothic wood type with a Tuscan flair.” Pick it up at MyFonts....
Type Love 183: User
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User is a new monospaced (which means there’s no kerning) type family from DSType. The family includes 30 styles with five weights ranging from...
Type Love 182: Storefront
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Storefront is the latest—fantastic—release from Sudtipos. Inspired by American sign painting, the script features all sorts of alternatives and s...
Type Love 181: Frontage
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To my delight, layered type systems seems to be popping up everywhere lately. Frontage, the newest version I’ve spotted, features five separate ...
Type Love 180: Saissant
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Saissant is a hand-drawn script by Magpie Paper Works. It’s probably not the most legible typeface in the world but it would be beautiful for e...
Type Love 179: Rooney
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Rooney is a friendly, rounded slab serif that is right up my alley. Featuring six weights, from light to black, and italics, this one is definitely at...
Type Love 178: Uma
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Uma is a new, two-weight, rounded typeface from Sudtipos. Check out the features and pick it up right here at MyFonts....
Type Love 177: Narziss Text
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Narziss Text is the serif companion to the very popular Narziss display face by Hubert Jocham Type....
Type Love 176: Kurry
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Kurry is a fun, curvy new display face from Cadson Demak. ...
Type Love 175: Spade
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Spade is a new chunky display face by Canada Type, which features one font with sharp edges and one with round....
Type Love 174: Marian
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Even though it’s only January, I would venture a guess that Marian will be at the very top of my Favorite fonts of 2011 list a year from now. De...
Type Love 173: Vanitas
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I’m loving the sleek curves and high contrast thicks and thins of Vanitas, a new typeface by California-based foundry Reserves. Pick up a copy r...
Type Love 172: 2011 Top 10
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This week I thought I’d share my favorite typefaces of 2011, in no particular order. Just click on each image to pick up a copy for yourself....
Type Love 171: Air
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Air, by Positype, is definitely at the top of my wishlist. This workhorse super family features nine weights, regular, condensed and compressed styles...
Type Love 17: Abril
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Abril is one of Type Together’s newest releases, a serif designed with intensive editorial use in mind. You can pick up the complete family of A...
Type Love 169: Andes
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Andes is a new typeface from Latinotype. Designed by Daniel Hernández, the display face includes eight weights and is based on the design of Merced. ...
Type Love 168: Bookmania
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Check out this new beauty from Mark Simonson: Bookmania is a revival of Bookman Oldstyle (1901) and the Bookmans of the 1960s, but with all the featur...
Type Love 167: Zadie
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Zadie is a gorgeous, ornamental display face by A2-Type featuring open and solid styles. Pick it up right here....
Type Love 166: Carolyna
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I’m always on the lookout for scripts that emulate handwriting a bit more than traditional ones do, so I was excited to discover Carolyna, which...
Type Love 165: Beckett
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I’ve recently discovered A-2 Type, a London-based foundry started by A2/SW/HK, and I loving the selection of typefaces they’ve developed. ...
Type Love 163
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I recently caught a glimpse of DSType’s Braga, via Typophile and since then I have been anxiously awaiting its release. Well, now the wait is ov...
Type Love 162: Centrale Sans
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Centrale Sans is a modern sans serif typeface by Typedepot that is currently deeply discounted. Check it out....
Type Love 161: Sanchez
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Sanchez is Latinotype‘s first display face family. The sturdy slab serif bears a strong resemblance to Rockwell but features softer, rounded edg...
Type Love 160: Peleguer
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Peleguer, a set of four fonts including ornaments, was reinterpreted from Spanish typography from the second half of the 18th century. You can read mo...
Type Love 159: Detroit
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Match & Kerosense, the type foundry and design studio of Alex Sheldon, is killing it with their releases lately. The latest edition to the library...
Type Love 158: Merge
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Merge is a new family of four soft sans fonts by Philatype....
Type Love 157: Magnola
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I’m really loving the curved lines of Magnola, a display face by Eimantas Paškonis that features lots of interesting ligaures and swash variant...