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Category: Typography

Type Love 17: Abril

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 169: Andes

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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. ...
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Type Love 168: Bookmania

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 167: Zadie

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Zadie is a gorgeous, ornamental display face by A2-Type featuring open and solid styles. Pick it up right here....
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Type Love 166: Carolyna

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 165: Beckett

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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. ...
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Type Love 163

Courtney • Oct 19, 2011
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...
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Type Love 162: Centrale Sans

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Centrale Sans is a modern sans serif typeface by Typedepot that is currently deeply discounted. Check it out....
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Type Love 161: Sanchez

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Sanchez is Latinotype‘s first display face family. The sturdy slab serif bears a strong resemblance to Rockwell but features softer, rounded edg...
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Type Love 160: Peleguer

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 159: Detroit

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Match & Kerosense, the type foundry and design studio of Alex Sheldon, is killing it with their releases lately. The latest edition to the library...
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Type Love 158: Merge

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Merge is a new family of four soft sans fonts by Philatype....
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Type Love 157: Magnola

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I’m really loving the curved lines of Magnola, a display face by Eimantas Paškonis that features lots of interesting ligaures and swash variant...
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Type Love 156: Altis

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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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Type Love 155: Grizzly Bear

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Grizzly Bear is another fun display typeface from Match & Kerosene. The family includes twelve titling fonts in styles that range from inline to s...
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Type Love 154: Crete

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Crete is an “unusual” slab serif from the Type Together library that was originally inspired by lettering found in a small chapel on Crete...
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Type Love 153: Quimby

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 152: Dharma Gothic

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 151: Gordon

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Gordon, by Letterbox, is a bold titling sans with a wide range of superscript ornaments. Pick it up at MyFonts right here....
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Type Love 150: Pluto

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 149: Acta

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 148: Legionary

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Legionary is a friendly new typeface with six styles, by Cyrill Tkachev....
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Type Love 147: Beluccia

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Beluccia is a new script by calligrapher Debi Sementelli that includes a whole set of stylistic alternates, swashes, flourishes, borders and ornament...
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Type Love 146: Brunswick Black

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Brunswick Black is a new display face from Letterbox....
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Type Love 145: Nikaia

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
“Nikaia is a squarish sans serif with an additional script weight.” Designed by Miller Type Foundry, the family features five weights and ...
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Type Love 144: Calibre

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Calibre is a Calibre is a “geometric neo-grotesque, inspired by the rationality of Aldo Novarese‘s seldom seen Recta” by Klim Type F...
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Type Love 143: Sklit Gothic

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Skilt Gothic, designed by Mårten Thavenius and published by Font Bureau, was developed from a series of striking types for signage designed by Danish...
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Type Love 142: Agile

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 141: FF Spinoza

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
FF Spinoza is an “elegant workhorse” that was designed by Max Phillips over a period of 11 years. Images via Behance...
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Type Love 140: Kinney

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 139: Periodico

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Periódico, which means newspaper in Spanish, is a serif typeface from Emtype. Originally commissioned by the Spanish daily newspaper ‘ABC’, a...
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Type Love 138: Victoria’s Secret

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 137: PTL Roletta Sans and Slab

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
This week I am loving Typecuts’s PTL Roletta Sans and PTL Roletta Slab. Both typefaces are available for licensing through Primetype....
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Type Love 135: Knight Sans

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Designed by Ekaluck Peanpanawate, Knight Sans is a contemporary sans serif typeface. The three weights—light, regular, bold—have details that veer...
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Type Love 134: Alda

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Alda, an in-progress typeface by Berton Hasebe, “explores how a typeface’s weight may be represented beyond the width of the stroke.&#8221...
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Type Love 133: Fiance

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Fiancé, an extra bold, pillowy italic featuring numerous alternate glyphs, is the latest release from Sudtipos. Pick it up right here at My Fonts....
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Type Love 132: Sweet Sans

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Sweet Sans, an open, versatile, engraver’s sans serif from MVB Fonts just flew to the top of my type wish list....
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Type Love 131: Treza

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
New Gestalten release, Treza, was designed by Parisian designer Benjamin Gomez and inspired by the classic American typewriter. Below are a couple exa...
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Type Love 130: Opula

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Opula, by Agency 26 Type is a fun display face that reminds me a bit of traditional tattoo typography. Available at Veer....
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Type Love 129: Trilon

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 128: Preface

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Preface, a sans serif with some truly interesting letterforms, was designed by Nick Shinn in 2003 as a unique alternative to Helvetica. type specimen ...
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Type Love 127: Suti

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Suti is a fun brush script by Mike Melvas. Available right here at MyFonts....
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Type Love 126: Tabac Sans

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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....
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Type Love 125: Brandon Grotesque

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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 ...
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Type Love 124: Trigot

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 123: 2012 Top 10

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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&#8221...
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Type Love 122: Dala Floda

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Dala Floda, from Commercial Type, is an unusual stencil typeface that was originally inspired by the lettering on worn gravestones and shipping crates...
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Type Love 121: FindReplace

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
According to Process Type Foundry: FindReplace is the result of tinkering with the typeface-making process while aiming for a result resembling conven...
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Type Love 120: Brilliant

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 119: United

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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 ...
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Type Love 118: 718

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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. ...
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Type Love 117: Cillian

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Cillian is a simple and affordable sans serif typeface with two weights available. Check out more style images here, and purchase on My Fonts....
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Type Love 116: URW Wood Type

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 115: Monroe

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Monroe is a fun new new slab serif/script hybrid by Sudtipos....
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Type Love 114: Thorowgood

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
For an alternative to Bodoni Poster, check out Thorowgood. Available from You Work for Them....
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Type Love 113: Suomi Slab Serif

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Suomi Slab Serif a crisp, sharp version of a typewriter font, was designed by Tomi Haaparanta (who also designed Tee Franklin, featured recently) and...
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Type Love 112: Tee Franklin

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 111: Neplus Ultra

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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....
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Type Love 110: Charlie

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I’ve rarely met a slab serif I didn’t like, and Charlie, designed by Working Format, is no exception....
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Type Love 109: Sense and Sensibility

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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