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Type Love 182: Storefront

Courtney • Mar 15, 2012Sep 14, 2012
Storefront is the latest—fantastic—release from Sudtipos. Inspired by American sign painting, the script features all sorts of alternatives and swashe...
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Type Love 181: Frontage

Courtney • Mar 8, 2012Sep 14, 2012
To my delight, layered type systems seems to be popping up everywhere lately. Frontage, the newest version I’ve spotted, features five separate layers...
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Type Love 180: Saissant

Courtney • Mar 1, 2012Sep 14, 2012
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 envelope...
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Type Love 179: Rooney

Courtney • Feb 23, 2012Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 178: Uma

Courtney • Feb 16, 2012Sep 14, 2012
Uma is a new, two-weight, rounded typeface from Sudtipos. Check out the features and pick it up right here at MyFonts....
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Type Love 177: Narziss Text

Courtney • Feb 9, 2012Sep 14, 2012
Narziss Text is the serif companion to the very popular Narziss display face by Hubert Jocham Type....
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Type Love 176: Kurry

Courtney • Feb 2, 2012Sep 14, 2012
Kurry is a fun, curvy new display face from Cadson Demak.  ...
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Type Love 175: Spade

Courtney • Jan 26, 2012Sep 14, 2012
Spade is a new chunky display face by Canada Type, which features one font with sharp edges and one with round....
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Type Love 174: Marian

Courtney • Jan 19, 2012Sep 14, 2012
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. Designed...
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Type Love 173: Vanitas

Courtney • Jan 12, 2012Sep 14, 2012
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 right h...
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Type Love 172: 2011 Top 10

Courtney • Jan 5, 2012Sep 14, 2012
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....
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Type Love 171: Air

Courtney • Dec 22, 2011Sep 14, 2012
Air, by Positype, is definitely at the top of my wishlist. This workhorse super family features nine weights, regular, condensed and compressed styles...
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Type Love 17: Abril

Courtney • Dec 15, 2011Sep 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 Abril D...
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Type Love 169: Andes

Courtney • Dec 8, 2011Sep 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. Y...
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Type Love 168: Bookmania

Courtney • Dec 1, 2011Sep 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 • Nov 17, 2011Sep 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 • Nov 10, 2011Sep 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 defin...
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Type Love 165: Beckett

Courtney • Nov 3, 2011Sep 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. A few of the...
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Type Love 163

Courtney • Oct 20, 2011Oct 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 over—thi...
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Type Love 162: Centrale Sans

Courtney • Oct 13, 2011Sep 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 • Oct 6, 2011Sep 14, 2012
Sanchez is Latinotype‘s first display face family. The sturdy slab serif bears a strong resemblance to Rockwell but features softer, rounded edges....
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Type Love 160: Peleguer

Courtney • Sep 22, 2011Sep 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 15, 2011Sep 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 is ...
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Type Love 158: Merge

Courtney • Sep 8, 2011Sep 14, 2012
Merge is a new family of four soft sans fonts by Philatype....
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Type Love 157: Magnola

Courtney • Sep 1, 2011Sep 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 variants for e...
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Type Love 156: Altis

Courtney • Aug 25, 2011Sep 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 • Aug 18, 2011Sep 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 shado...
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Type Love 154: Crete

Courtney • Aug 11, 2011Sep 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, Greece....
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Type Love 153: Quimby

Courtney • Aug 4, 2011Sep 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 Quimby as a...
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Type Love 152: Dharma Gothic

Courtney • Jul 28, 2011Sep 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 • Jul 21, 2011Sep 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 • Jul 14, 2011Sep 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 • Jul 7, 2011Sep 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 • Jun 30, 2011Sep 14, 2012
Legionary is a friendly new typeface with six styles, by Cyrill Tkachev....
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Type Love 147: Beluccia

Courtney • Jun 23, 2011Sep 14, 2012
Beluccia is a new script by calligrapher Debi Sementelli that includes a whole set of stylistic alternates, swashes, flourishes, borders and ornaments...
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Type Love 146: Brunswick Black

Courtney • Jun 16, 2011Sep 14, 2012
Brunswick Black is a new display face from Letterbox....
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Type Love 145: Nikaia

Courtney • Jun 9, 2011Sep 14, 2012
“Nikaia is a squarish sans serif with an additional script weight.” Designed by Miller Type Foundry, the family features five weights and italics in a...
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Type Love 144: Calibre

Courtney • Jun 2, 2011Sep 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 Foundry. The family...
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Type Love 143: Sklit Gothic

Courtney • May 26, 2011Sep 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 • May 19, 2011Sep 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 type ...
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Type Love 141: FF Spinoza

Courtney • May 12, 2011Sep 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 • May 5, 2011Sep 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 definitely fits the bil...
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Type Love 139: Periodico

Courtney • Apr 28, 2011Sep 14, 2012
Periódico, which means newspaper in Spanish, is a serif typeface from Emtype. Originally commissioned by the Spanish daily newspaper ‘ABC’, and inspir...
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Type Love 138: Victoria’s Secret

Courtney • Apr 21, 2011Sep 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 give ...
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Type Love 137: PTL Roletta Sans and Slab

Courtney • Apr 14, 2011Sep 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 • Mar 31, 2011Sep 14, 2012
Designed by Ekaluck Peanpanawate, Knight Sans is a contemporary sans serif typeface. The three weights—light, regular, bold—have details that veer tow...
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Type Love 134: Alda

Courtney • Mar 24, 2011Sep 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.” Upon completion ...
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Type Love 133: Fiance

Courtney • Mar 17, 2011Sep 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 • Mar 10, 2011Sep 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 • Mar 3, 2011Sep 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 • Feb 24, 2011Sep 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 • Feb 17, 2011Sep 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 • Feb 10, 2011Sep 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 • Feb 3, 2011Sep 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 • Jan 27, 2011Sep 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 • Jan 20, 2011Sep 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 • Jan 13, 2011Sep 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 triangle....
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Type Love 123: 2012 Top 10

Courtney • Jan 6, 2011Sep 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” list by any means, jus...
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Type Love 122: Dala Floda

Courtney • Dec 23, 2010Sep 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 • Dec 16, 2010Sep 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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