16 / Introducing font pairings

By Noemi Stauffer • Issue #16 • View online

Hello y'all! 👋

This week I’m introducing a new section on the newsletter with examples of perfect font pairings (old and new, free or not). I’m hoping that it will help you pick new and different fonts for your everyday designs.

Because finding the best matches to your favorite typeface can be difficult sometimes, this new section also includes font pairing tips from experienced designers and typographers.

Lastly, do you have any original or go-to font pairings that you would like to share with the rest of us? Just hit reply and let me know, I will feature them in the next issue! – Noemi

Typographics 2018

This year’s edition of Typographics Festival is about to take place in New York in a month. Not only the speaker lineup is impressive, but the list of workshops really caught my attention. Here are three that I don’t want to miss:

Type Selector with Tânia Raposo: learn how to choose the best fonts for your projects and how to pair them with others (one-day workshop with Tânia Raposo from Type@Cooper).

Typeface Design for Non-Type Designers: go beyond picking fonts and learn the basics of designing your own typefaces. No prior experience in font design is required (one-day workshop with Matteo Bologna from Mucca Design).

Movable Type – Animation for Typographers: learn simple animation techniques through a series of lectures and hands-on projects. You will also learn the basics of Adobe After Effects (two-day workshop with Todd Goldstein from Pentagram).

☞ Have a look at the Festival’s full listing of workshops and tours.

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New Type Releases

Schnyder

The newest release of Commercial Type is a display serif originally designed for T, the New York Times Style Magazine. Schnyder therefore has the high contrast and delicate hairlines typical of fashion typefaces, but with more organic structures. Available in three weights, four widths and four optical sizes, Schnyder is a complete system for beautiful, offbeat, and distinctive headlines.

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Rough Cut

Texas-based designer and typographer Simon Walker launched Beasts of England, his own font shop, along with a brand new typeface. Rough Cut is a sturdy, gothic-style typeface inspired by the packaging of an old tobacco tin that he found at his grandfather’s place when he was little.

You will find two other typefaces on the shop, including Blackbike, a beautiful display script that is also Simon’s work (pictured above).

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Bourgeois Slab

The London-based foundry of Jonathan Barnbrook released a slab version of Bourgeois, its squarish geometric sans. Also available as a condensed, the new slab family comprises 24 styles, and is well suited for texts of all kinds and sizes. Bourgeois Slab also comes with a generous set of ligatures.

☞ Suggested pairing: as one would expect, Bourgeois Slab works nicely with its sans antecedent, Bourgeois.

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Hope Sans

While I avoid promoting fonts published by Monotype as much as possible, I just couldn’t resist this one 🙈 Designed by Charles Nix, Hope Sans comes with a roaring collection of swashes, alternate characters and ligatures, making it perfect for attention-grabbing display typography. For a limited time, get 50% off the complete family pack.

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Oroban

Adele Type became Blaze Type and released Oroban, a family inspired by parasitic plants and witchcraft (between that and The Book of Revelations for his typeface Apoc, Matthieu Salvaggio has an interesting repertoire of inspiration sources). Oroban comes in text, display and headline styles, with matching italics.

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Free Fonts and Great Deals

TT Severs

Severs is a brand new geometric grotesque available in nine weights, from Thin to Black, plus italics. The typeface was released with an introductory discount of 78% off, meaning you can get the complete family pack for under $30 (18 fonts) or individual styles for less than $6.50. Get 78% off until June 6, 2018.

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TT Tricks

Also released by TypeType, Tricks consists of two distinct subfamilies: the standard family and its stencil counterpart. Tricks is currently available with an introductory offer of 78% off, meaning you can get the complete family pack for $40 (24 fonts) or individual styles for less than $10. Get 78% off until May 18, 2018.

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Mohave (updated)

Released by Indonesian foundry Tokotype, Mohave is a titling display typeface. Initially designed as an all-caps font in 2013, Mohave was just expanded into a family of four weights, with matching italics. The new version also includes alternates, both in the uppercase and lowercase. Free for personal and commercial use.

Download Mohave →

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Font Pairings

Find out what other typefaces a type designer may have designed. Some of these may very well work in pairing them with your original choice. – David Hubner (@Dav140)

Design by Twomuch, using Apoc and Athletics

Suggested pairing: Apoc & Athletics (via Fonts in Use)

Suggested pairing: Matrix Script & FF Meta (suggested by Dino Santos from DSType)

Til the next time 👋

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11:35 PM - 8 May 2018

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