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Category: Typography

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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Type Love 108: Geotica

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 107: Creamy Script

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Creamy Script is the perfect name for this soft and friendly typeface. Pick it up right here. via Typography Served  ...
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Type Love 106: FF Suhmo

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
FF Suhmo, a FontShop exclusive, was inspired by American typewriter fonts. This modern, rounded take on genre features 8 styles and various special ch...
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Type Love 105: St. Ryde

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
St Ryde, a “casual and modern sans serif”, is the latest release from Stereotypes. And it’s available for purchase from My Fonts rig...
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Type Love 104: Arbor

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Arbor created by Village founder Chester Jenkins. Originally designed for the New York Time’s Magazines’s 2008 Hollywood issue, the entire...
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Type Love 102: Titillation

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Titillation is a round and narrow sans serif by Suomi Type Foundry....
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Type Love 101: LaSalle

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
LaSalle is an expressive, vintagey script by Filmotype....
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Type Love 100: Ibis Display

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 99: Rum Black

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 98: St Marie

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 97: Engel New Sans

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 96: Aniuk

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 95: Klavika

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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, ...
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Type Love 94: Amboy

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Amboy is another one of Jim Parkinson’s creations. The inline display face was inspired by Mid-20th Century Showcard Lettering....
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Type Love 93: Sutro

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Sutro is a very structured slab serif designed by Jim Parkinson in 2003. You can pick up the package of 11 fonts at FontShop right here....
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Type Love 92: Hernandez

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Sudtipos recently released three new slab serif fonts. My favorite is Hernandez, a “slab serif display” with a wide range of alternates to...
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Type Love 91: Darjeeling

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Darjeeling, a new release from You Work for Them, was designed by FaceType. With it’s various styles and library of ornaments, Darjeeling can go...
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Type Love 90: Kina

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Incubator is Village’shome for contemporary releases from young designers. There are a few in development that promise to be available this year...
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Type Love 89: Wolfsburg, Militia, Mercado

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Even though I rarely get to use them, I’ve been really into stencil fonts lately. And You Work for Them has quite a variety of inexpensive, inte...
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Type Love 88: Margarita

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Loving the voluptuous curves  and thick-thin contrast of Margarita‘s letterforms. The display face, created by Pampa Type, is available for pur...
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Type Love 87: Lodgecode

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Lodgecode, the first release from the Look Partnership’s Tonalcase collection, is a single weight geometric sans. Designed by Jeff Warrington th...
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Type Love 86: Eames Century Modern

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I’m cheering on House Industries for their latest and greatest release (and the newest addition to my typographic wishlist). In their own words:...
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Type Love 85: Farnham

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Farnham is a typeface that was designed by Christian Schwartz for Font Bureau in 2004. The confident serif was based on the work of “Johannes Fl...
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Type Love 84: Sans Merci

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
This week I’m liking the display face, Sans Merci, “an incisive font for sharp words”, by SMeltery....
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Type Love 83: Giorgio Sans

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Giorgio Sans is quite the character. Designed by Schwartzco as a quirky companion to their popular serif, Giorgio, the typface features six weights an...
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Type Love 82: Adelle

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Adelle is a modern slab serif by Type Together. It was created with editorial use in mind, but I think it’s versatile enough to use in a whole s...
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Type Love 81: Graphik

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Helvetica is one of those polarizing typefaces—most people either love it or hate it, no in between. If you’re on the more negative side of th...
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Type Love 80: CamingoDos

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
CamingoDos is a squarish, modern sans serif available at FontShop....
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Type Love 79: Arctic

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Arctic is a headline family created by German designer Henning Skibbe. Interestingly enough, his background is in graffiti, which as you can see infor...
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Type Love 78: Cooper Italic

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I love all the swashes and perfect imperfectness of each letterform that makes up Cooper Italic. Not to mention it’s a steal at only $30....
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Type Love 77: Fluidum

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Apparently Fluidum has been around for quite some time, but it is a new discovery for me. Beautiful lines....
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Type Love 76: Stag Dot

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
A few times I’ve attempted to create clean crisp dotted type on my own, to no avail.  Stag Dot to the rescue....
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Type Love 75: 2009 Top 10

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I always look forward to the typographic “best of” posts each year, so I thought I’d do a rundown of my favorites. I don’t cla...
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Type Love 74: Home Run

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Home Run is a set of two bold companion scripts by master typographer Doyald Young. One of the cool things about the pair is that you have the ability...
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Type Love 73: Geogrotesque Stencil

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
One new typeface I am determined to find a use for is Geogrotesque Stencil, a new release from Emtype. The suite of 3 styles and 7 weights is now avai...
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Type Love 72: Sun

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
This versatile sans serif, Sun, a family including 14 styles, is available from Lucas Fonts....
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