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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.