Jan 24, 2019

31 / No curve, no problem 🔶🔷

By Noemi Stauffer • Issue #31 • View online

Bonjour!

I’m writing from a cozy coffee shop downtown Lausanne, Switzerland, where I’ve spent the day sipping coffee and slowly, carefully finishing to put this issue together. I really cherish these kinds of days, that I get to spend on my three favourite things – fonts, chocolate and coffee 😇

If you happen to be around Lausanne too, let me know and let’s grab one together! ☕️ – Noemi (@noemistauffer)

PS Someone told me that my last issue kept crashing his iPhone mail app whenever trying to open it on mobile. Sorry, I might have gone a bit too strong on the gifs thing 😅 If you’re also experiencing this problem, please let me know, I’ll have a look into it. 🧐

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Font of the Month Club

Earlier this month, David Jonathan Ross released Roslindale Variable Italic, a variable font that allows you to control its “italicness” independently from its slant. The font is available to members of his Font of the Month Club, for which memberships go for as little as $6/month. By joining the club now, you’ll not only get your hands on Roslindale Variable Italic, but you’ll also receive a brand new font designed by David every single month.

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New Typefaces

👱‍♀️ Orientation

Designed by Sandrine Nugue, Orientation is a stencil typeface originally created for signage use, more specifically for the wayfinding system of a new student housing building in Roubaix, France. Orientation was subsequently expanded to a full family of three weights (Light, Regular and Bold) with matching italics, making it equally suitable for print and screen.

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Hex Projects

Nick Sherman, the creator of the Variable Fonts website and one of the co-founders of Fonts In Use, launched Hex Projects, a showcase of his typographic work over the past thirteen years. I’ve picked a few of my favourites to show you here above, but on his newly launched website you’ll find twenty typefaces of an impressive variety, most of them unreleased.

View the Hex Projects catalog →

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Aeonik

Mark Bloom (also known as Mash Creative) released his second typeface, this time designed in collaboration with Joe Leadbeater. Available in seven weights, the contemporary Grotesque is perfectly balanced for both display and text use, and comes with a wide range of OpenType features. The creative duo also made a gorgeous 64 page specimen book, printed with black and fluorescent yellow ink (pictured above) and a few posters.

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🎁 Get the specimen book for free when buying the full family (14 styles) or its pack of essentials (6 styles).

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Kleukens-Egyptienne

Forgotten Shapes, one of our favourite new type foundries of 2018, just published the revival of an unfinished typeface designed by Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens in 1929. This wasn’t an easy task, given that there were only three surviving sketches on which to base its reconstruction. Yet, Raymund Schröder has revisited the slab serif, expanded its initial weight with four additional ones, and designed newly invented italics.

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Fresh Updates

☞ Parachute’s Grand Gothik was updated, now covering a broad range of weights, widths, and languages. It also comes with stylistic alternates, icons and symbols, and is available as a variable font. The brand new minisite is well worth a look, too.

☞ The five widths of Orelo and its variable font version are now available for licensing over at Pizza Typefaces.

Special Offers

All styles of Circe Slab A, B and C are 70% off until January 30

Brushland and five other typefaces from Type-Ø-Tones are 25% off

The different family packages of Alvar are 80% off

Slavia and three other typefaces from Superior Type are 25% off

All Kisba styles are 70% off until February 18

Free Typefaces

Agrandir Variable

The letterforms, spacing and kerning of Pangram Pangram’s Agrandir were updated, and more interestingly, the massive typeface of 35 fonts, spanning seven weights and five widths, was released as a variable font. While the typeface is fully free for personal use, for commercial projects, you will need to get a license, starting at $30/style. Free for personal use.

View and download Agrandir →

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Avara

The newest release of Velvetyne Type Foundry is a serif built on a square grid, with contours only made of straight lines, an unusual design that becomes more apparent at large sizes. The initial reason behind this choice was to facilitate the collaboration on the font, as four people contributed to its design after it was initiated by Raphaël Bastide. Open source, free for personal and commercial use.

View and download Avara →

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