Dec 18, 2018

29 / Not your typical pixel fonts 👾

By Noemi Stauffer • Issue #29 • View online

Hey there!

This is already the last issue of Fresh Fonts for 2018! As a small present from Christophe and me, we’ve included twice as many free fonts in this issue than we normally do. Hope you like them! 🎅🏼

Happy holidays and see you in 2019! 🎄☃️ – Noemi

Job offers for type lovers

👨‍🎨 Medium is looking for an Art Director to work with the awesome Bethany Heck (editor of the Font Review Journal).
✍🏻 Colophon is looking to collaborate with a type designer who can produce Hebrew script. Contact them for more info.
👩🏻‍🎓 ANRT is offering a paid internship to work on a project in collaboration with the National Library of France (BnF).

New typeface releases

Heldane

Over ten years in the making, the newest release of Klim Type is a Renaissance inspired, contemporary serif. The elegant typeface comes in two families, Text and Display, making it well-suited for use at small, medium and large sizes. With Heldane, Kris Sowersby proves once again that he is at the top of his art. He shares his design process in this wonderful post.

View Heldane Display →

View Heldane Text →

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👱‍♀️ Empirica

Designed by Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger, Empirica revisits the style of ancient Roman inscriptions, projecting grace and authority with its close spacing and delicate serifs – I mean, look at this teddy bear 🧸form of titling Ö! Ideal for use at large sizes, Empirica comes in six weights, from Extra Light to Black, plus italics. Oh and they also made posters, which are available on the foundry’s online store!

View Empirica →

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Coign

Colophon released Coign, a typeface based on the Elongated Sans of The DeLittle company, a foundry founded in 1888, that produced some of Britain’s finest wood type for over 100 years. Coign brings DeLittle’s ideas firmly into the 21st century, with its 28 styles, spanning seven weights across four optical sizes — all of them super condensed. Read full story.

View Coign →

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The Storytelling Serifs

In response to homogenous online design trends, Fontsmith launched three new serif typefaces: FS Kim, FS Ostro and FS Neruda, which are all aimed at those who tell stories – from brands to books to newspapers and magazines, to online editorial platforms. Eye-catching and versatile, the serifs all work across an impressive range of settings: headlines, large body copy, smaller body copy and more.

View The Storytelling Serifs →

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Study

Designed by Jesse Ragan, Study is based on a hand-drawn alphabet published in 1968 by Czech-American designer and wood engraver Rudolph Ruzicka. In this one, Jesse merged calligraphic details with a more formal typographic structure, making its twists and turns eye-catching at large sizes, yet unobtrusive when sized for paragraph text. Available in six weights (from Light to Extra Bold) with their italics.

View Study →

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Fresh updates

☞ Marvin Visions was expanded into a family of two optical sizes and ten weights, and is now available as a variable font. Make sure to have a look at the beautiful updated website and download the bold weight (free for personal use).

☞ A new version of OH no Type’s Obviously is out on Future Fonts.

Special Offers

Get Atipo's branding bundle (seven typefaces for €25) before Friday, Dec 21

Get Atipo's editorial bundle (six typefaces for €20) before Friday, Dec 21

Mikkel Script & Sans family packs are currently 50% off

All Nomada Incise styles are 50% off until Dec 31

☞ This month, offer a Font of the Month subscription and get up to 3 months free 🎁

Free Fonts

Handjet

What a refreshing typeface from Rosetta Type! Designed by David Březina, Handjet is a dot-based display face with several fun ways to fill those dots, to make experimental and custom variations. It even includes some endearing OpenType cats and dogs to play with. With full support for Latin and Cyrillic languages. Free for personal and commercial use.

Download Handjet →

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VG5000

Named after the VG5000, a computer created by Phillips in 1984, the latest release of Velvetyne playfully combines pixelated and curved strokes, blurring the lines between old and new digital shapes. It also includes many glyphs and pictograms from the VG5000’s original set, and contemporary gender-neutral characters. Open source, free for personal and commercial use.

Download VG5000 →

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Secuela

Fernando Faro released Secuela, a condensed sans-serif evoking a feeling of warmth and personality. The typeface is available in five weights (Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and ExtraBold) with matching italics, and a variable font version was also made, which can be downloaded together with the other font files. Open source, free for personal and commercial use.

Download Secuela →

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Farro

Designed by Aceler Chua, Farro was meant to become the new custom display typeface of Hong Kong design studio Grayscale. However, as it developed, they noticed that “its silhouette was becoming too joyful for a multipurpose brand typeface” and decided to release it freely instead. Open source, free for personal and commercial use.

Download Farro →

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Thanks for reading and happy holidays! ☃️🎄

This newsletter is curated and edited by Noemi Stauffer with the precious help of Christophe Bouche.

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