Category Type Love

Type Love: Grota Rounded

Grota Rounded is a new unicase release from Latinotype. The typeface includes six weights, from thin to black, plus matching italics. Currently marked down to 50% off, now is a great time to pick up a copy for yourself at…

Type Love: Roihu

Roihu is a new sans serif typeface by Mika Melvas that includes eight upright and eight italic weights. The set also includes a huge selection of swashes and stylistic alternates, giving it a more feminine, formal appearance and lending itself to all…

Type Love: Stay Gold

Stay Gold is one of Decade Type Foundry‘s newest releases. A vintage-inspired display script, the typeface includes a series of swashes, stylistic alternates, automatic ligatures and swash letterforms. Check it out at MyFonts.

Type Love: 2013 Type Favorites

It’s that time of year again! I don’t know about you but I love end-of-the-year “Best of” lists. So below I present to you a selection of my twelve favorite typefaces released this year. They are in no particular order…

Type Love: Equip Slab

Equip Slab, by Hoftype, is the newest edition to the Equip family. The slab serif typeface includes eight weights plus italics, for a total of 16 styles, and features ligatures, proportional lining figures, tabular lining figures, proportional old style figures, lining…

Type Love: Clear Sans

Clear Sans is a “rational geometric sans serif” from Positype, that has been reworked since its original introduction in 2008. The newly expanded family includes regular, text and screen fonts in 10 weights plus italics—check it out at MyFonts.

Type Love: Canaro

Canaro was released last month by Rene Bieder: Conceived as an exploration of geometrical typedesigns of the early 20th century, Canaro developed into a font of that period with a modern streak. The lack of spurs provide a unique but unobtrusive appearance…

Type Love: Directa Serif

Directa Serif is a new release from Outras Fontes that is designed to save space while maximizing readability. It includes seven weights plus italics, as well as various OpenType features. Pick it up at MyFonts.

Type Love: Urge Text

Urge Text is a recent release from Schizotype that includes six weights in regular and condensed widths, plus matching italics. Check it out a pick up a copy for yourself at MyFonts.

Type Love: Post Grotesk

Post Grotesk is a new release via Village’s Incubator program, and the first typeface designed by Josh Finklea. The typeface features four feature-rich weights, from light to bold, as well as matching italics. Pick up a copy for yourself at Village.

Type Love: Grumpy

Grumpy (which was used in the charity:ball invitations I posted last week) is a display face with six optical variants. Pick it up at MyFonts.

Type Love: Odesta

Odesta is another recent release from Village that flew to to the top of my wishlist. Designed by Ondrej Jób of Urtd, the typeface features seven weights with built-in small caps, swash alternates, and contextual alternate initials & finials.  

Type Love: Mrs Summer

Mrs Summer is a “a hand drawn narrow typeface with a Western touch.” This display face comes with two weights—regular and bold—all caps letterforms and alternate glyphs. Pick it up at MyFonts.