Type Love 156: Altis
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I’m loving the quirky curves of Altis, a sans serif family by Typolar, featuring 10 weights and lots of open type features....
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Courtney • Type Love 155: Grizzly Bear
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Grizzly Bear is another fun display typeface from Match & Kerosene. The family includes twelve titling fonts in styles that range from inline to s...
Type Love 154: Crete
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Crete is an “unusual” slab serif from the Type Together library that was originally inspired by lettering found in a small chapel on Crete...
Type Love 153: Quimby
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The ubiquity and misuse of Copperplate—on everything from bank logos to lost and found flyers—drives me insane (who’s with me?). So I love Q...
Type Love 152: Dharma Gothic
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Dharma Gothic is a wood type-inspired sans serif family by Dharma Type (previously known as Flat-It), featuring seven weights and 42 styles. Pick it u...
Type Love 151: Gordon
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Gordon, by Letterbox, is a bold titling sans with a wide range of superscript ornaments. Pick it up at MyFonts right here....
Type Love 150: Pluto
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Pluto is a new, curvy typeface from HVD Fonts, featuring a set of 16 fonts with plenty of alternates and special characters. As an added bonus, the ty...
Type Love 149: Acta
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Acta is a typeface from DSType, that was originally designed for a Chilean newspaper. The super family features a Pro and Display version with six wei...
Type Love 148: Legionary
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Legionary is a friendly new typeface with six styles, by Cyrill Tkachev....
Type Love 147: Beluccia
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Beluccia is a new script by calligrapher Debi Sementelli that includes a whole set of stylistic alternates, swashes, flourishes, borders and ornament...
Type Love 146: Brunswick Black
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Brunswick Black is a new display face from Letterbox....
Type Love 145: Nikaia
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“Nikaia is a squarish sans serif with an additional script weight.” Designed by Miller Type Foundry, the family features five weights and ...
Type Love 144: Calibre
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Calibre is a Calibre is a “geometric neo-grotesque, inspired by the rationality of Aldo Novarese‘s seldom seen Recta” by Klim Type F...
Type Love 143: Sklit Gothic
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Skilt Gothic, designed by Mårten Thavenius and published by Font Bureau, was developed from a series of striking types for signage designed by Danish...
Type Love 142: Agile
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Agile, a quirky sans serif designed by Edgar Walthert, is now available at Village. I’m thinking this one will definitely be part of my next big...
Type Love 141: FF Spinoza
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FF Spinoza is an “elegant workhorse” that was designed by Max Phillips over a period of 11 years. Images via Behance...
Type Love 140: Kinney
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Kinney is a 6 weight, 12 font family by Terminal Design, whose aim is to be a great “neutral serif.” If you ask me, I’d say it defin...
Type Love 139: Periodico
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Periódico, which means newspaper in Spanish, is a serif typeface from Emtype. Originally commissioned by the Spanish daily newspaper ‘ABC’, a...
Type Love 138: Victoria’s Secret
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Victoria’s Secret is a custom display face by Andreu Balius. Based on another of his designs, Carmen, the large number of swatches and ligatures...
Type Love 137: PTL Roletta Sans and Slab
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This week I am loving Typecuts’s PTL Roletta Sans and PTL Roletta Slab. Both typefaces are available for licensing through Primetype....
Type Love 135: Knight Sans
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Designed by Ekaluck Peanpanawate, Knight Sans is a contemporary sans serif typeface. The three weights—light, regular, bold—have details that veer...
Type Love 134: Alda
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Alda, an in-progress typeface by Berton Hasebe, “explores how a typeface’s weight may be represented beyond the width of the stroke.”...
Type Love 133: Fiance
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Fiancé, an extra bold, pillowy italic featuring numerous alternate glyphs, is the latest release from Sudtipos. Pick it up right here at My Fonts....
Type Love 132: Sweet Sans
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Sweet Sans, an open, versatile, engraver’s sans serif from MVB Fonts just flew to the top of my type wish list....
Type Love 131: Treza
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New Gestalten release, Treza, was designed by Parisian designer Benjamin Gomez and inspired by the classic American typewriter. Below are a couple exa...
Type Love 130: Opula
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Opula, by Agency 26 Type is a fun display face that reminds me a bit of traditional tattoo typography. Available at Veer....
Type Love 129: Trilon
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Trilon is a huge new type family from Terminal Design, which was created in response to the complaint of a designer friend that hates almost every san...
Type Love 128: Preface
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Preface, a sans serif with some truly interesting letterforms, was designed by Nick Shinn in 2003 as a unique alternative to Helvetica. type specimen ...
Type Love 127: Suti
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Suti is a fun brush script by Mike Melvas. Available right here at MyFonts....
Type Love 126: Tabac Sans
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Tabac Sans is a new release from Suitcase Type, featuring eight weights and a huge variety of Open Type features. Pick it up from My Fonts right here....
Type Love 125: Brandon Grotesque
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Mistakenly, I never posted about Brandon Grotesque when I first discovered it; but it recently came back on my radar due to this Fonts in Use post on ...
Type Love 124: Trigot
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First discovered over at André Mora’s site, Trigot is a modular display face by Michael Hübner crafted entirely from the basic form of the tri...
Type Love 123: 2012 Top 10
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As promised, here are my ten favorite typefaces from 2010, many of which you’ve seen in past Type Loves. This isn’t a “best of”...
Type Love 122: Dala Floda
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Dala Floda, from Commercial Type, is an unusual stencil typeface that was originally inspired by the lettering on worn gravestones and shipping crates...
Type Love 121: FindReplace
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According to Process Type Foundry: FindReplace is the result of tinkering with the typeface-making process while aiming for a result resembling conven...
Type Love 120: Brilliant
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Brilliant is a great new stencil typeface by FaceType, with three, equally readable weights. (It’s also 40% at My Fonts at the moment, so get in...
Type Love 119: United
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I first came across United, by House Industries, via Tyler Galpin‘s (very well-designed, might I add) site, and was immediately drawn to it. It ...
Type Love 118: 718
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Terminal Design’s 718 is an ode to the outer boroughs of NYC, or “the real New York”, as they refer to the non-Manhattan area code. ...
Type Love 117: Cillian
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Cillian is a simple and affordable sans serif typeface with two weights available. Check out more style images here, and purchase on My Fonts....
Type Love 116: URW Wood Type
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There’s no shortage of woodtype fonts out there these days, but what drew me to URW Wood Type is the fun possibilities that the Shadow version p...
Type Love 115: Monroe
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Monroe is a fun new new slab serif/script hybrid by Sudtipos....
Type Love 114: Thorowgood
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For an alternative to Bodoni Poster, check out Thorowgood. Available from You Work for Them....
Type Love 113: Suomi Slab Serif
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Suomi Slab Serif a crisp, sharp version of a typewriter font, was designed by Tomi Haaparanta (who also designed Tee Franklin, featured recently) and...
Type Love 112: Tee Franklin
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Tee Franklin was commissioned by Vogue UK for their redesign in 2001. This new version of the classic typeface Franklin Gothic contains a wider variet...
Type Love 111: Neplus Ultra
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Neplus Ultra is a new chunky slab serif from p.s. type, and I am loving the unique letterform details like the lowercase g’s....
Type Love 110: Charlie
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I’ve rarely met a slab serif I didn’t like, and Charlie, designed by Working Format, is no exception....
Type Love 109: Sense and Sensibility
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Sense and Sensibility are a pair of sans serifs from ShinnType that have been used by The Globe & Mail for several years. Made up of a modernist a...
Type Love 108: Geotica
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Geotica is a curvy display face with lots of possibilities. It features four styles and four grades, for a total of 16 different combinations. The typ...
Type Love 107: Creamy Script
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Creamy Script is the perfect name for this soft and friendly typeface. Pick it up right here. via Typography Served ...
Type Love 106: FF Suhmo
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FF Suhmo, a FontShop exclusive, was inspired by American typewriter fonts. This modern, rounded take on genre features 8 styles and various special ch...
Type Love 105: St. Ryde
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St Ryde, a “casual and modern sans serif”, is the latest release from Stereotypes. And it’s available for purchase from My Fonts rig...
Type Love 104: Arbor
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Arbor created by Village founder Chester Jenkins. Originally designed for the New York Time’s Magazines’s 2008 Hollywood issue, the entire...
Type Love 102: Titillation
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Titillation is a round and narrow sans serif by Suomi Type Foundry....
Type Love 101: LaSalle
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LaSalle is an expressive, vintagey script by Filmotype....
Type Love 100: Ibis Display
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First, I have to stop for a second and recognize that this is the 100th Type Love post! How that is possible is beyond me—the last 100 weeks have co...
Type Love 99: Rum Black
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Rum Black was actually a winner of the 2010 TDC competition. The hefty display face was created by Royal Academy of Arts Type & Media grad Trine R...
Type Love 98: St Marie
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This love-at-first-sight serif typeface is the in-progress St Marie from Sterotypes. Unfortunately there is not much information on an approximate rel...
Type Love 97: Engel New Sans
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Engel New Sans (an updated version of the original Engel Sans, one of Gestalten’s best sellers) s a clean modern sans serif with interesting qui...
Type Love 96: Aniuk
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Aniuk is a new display family from Typejockeys featuring a unique combination of round and edgy details. Meant for large sizes, the family includes fi...
Type Love 95: Klavika
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Klavika is yet another one of Process Type Foundry’s modern, versatile typefaces. It was designed in 2004, but still looks just as fresh today, ...