#54 / Slab serifs are the new black 🖤

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The team at Signal Type has been pretty busy lately, releasing a clean new website, along with three new typefaces. The one I would like to draw your attention to is Mortise, a slab serif featuring slightly curved vertical serifs, giving it a friendly look. Mortise comes with Tenon, its efficient sans sibling, and although they were designed to work together, they have no reason to envy each other.

☞ Signal Type also released Sinter, a sharper sister for their bestselling Center, plus a full redesign of Center itself.

This sharp geometric sans serif was designed by René Bieder in Berlin. Novera is available in two versions, both with the same original source file but with different characters set as default. While the Modern version was optimized for legibility at small sizes, the Classic version provides a more “helvetica-flavored look.” Both versions come in ten weights, with matching italics, and with extensive glyph sets of 1000+ glyphs per font.

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Goodall is Colophon’s contemporary take on the geometric slab genre. It’s a beautiful design that makes use of open apertures and ink traps to remain highly legible at small point sizes. Goodall is available in five weights, from Regular to Black, with true italics. And its Pro version includes a pictorial glyph set of playing cards – in both white and black.

You know me, I’m picky when it comes to script fonts – but this one caught my attention. It’s the work of Christian Dexter over at Avondale Type in Chicago. Called Doubletap, the font comes in only one style, but complete with ligatures, alternates, numerals and currency symbols.

Paris-based Black Foundry is behind this ‘neutral’ sans serif designed for user interfaces. The typeface natively covers nine different scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. Finder comes in three weights (Light, Regular and Bold) and is also available as a variable font.