Fresh Fonts

December 17 · Issue #76 · View online

A monthly hit of inspiration and first look at new typefaces from independent designers and type foundries. Curated by @noemistauffer and delivered straight to your inbox 📬

We’ve made it, friends! I can’t believe that 2020 is finally coming to an end! As for me, I’m lucky enough to be headed to Switzerland for the holidays. All I care about at this point is to go offline, chill with my family, and eat too much panettone. But I’ll make sure to ship this month’s issue of the font club, in which members will enjoy a new, exciting font family designed by David Einwoller. Also, if you’re curious about what’s coming up next, there’s a sneak peek at the new design of the newsletter in the interview that I gave to the Creativerly. Happy holidays and see you on the other side! ✌️ – Noemi

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Freigeist 2.0 by René Bieder

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Another gem brought to you by René Bieder, Feigeist is a massive family spanning six weights across five widths, with a monospace companion. Freigeist captures the untamed and expressive spirit of the early sans serifs from the 19th century — hence its name, meaning ‘free spirit’ in German — and puts it into a contemporary context. I love the italics on this one, and the ‘Q’ that was added to the typeface’s second version.

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Fresh Releases

Le Rosart by Revolver Type

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What an impressive release from Revolver Type. The Rosart project is the result of Lukas Schneider’s quest to bring the types cut of 18th Century Belgian punchcutter Jaques-François Rosart into the digital present. Based on extensive research, this contemporary interpretation comes in two optical sizes (Text and Display) with an extensive set of 800+ ornaments revived by the Dutch Type Library. A series of flourished capitals, and a complementary blackletter family, are also coming soon.

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Tomato Grotesk by The Designers Foundry

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Designed by Andrea Biggio, Tomato Grotesk is a cheerful and versatile sans-serif. Design features like ink traps and tight spacing will make its eye-catching contrast blossom at display sizes. And yet, its geometric shapes make it suitable for use in small sizes. Needless to say, I’m captivated by the discretionary ligatures — I mean, look at this ‘gg’ 😍 Also, for a limited time, you’re offered a free printed specimen (pictured above) with the purchase of any family pack.

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Roman Standard by Florian Karsten

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The latest addition to Florian Karsten’s catalogue is now its only serif. Inspired by the type found on a newspaper, Roman Standard is a soft and friendly serif typeface. The family comes in six weights, from Light to Black, with a variable font version. Also, the vertical metrics of Roman Standard perfectly match the ones of FK Grotesk Neue, making the two families an ideal combination for almost any occasion.

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Fraktion Sans & Mono by Pangram Pangram

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The newest release of Pangram Pangram is the work of Swiss Art Director Juri Zaech. “Another contemporary grotesque” you might think, but this one has the particularity of having a rather mechanical construction. Its square shapes and compact capitals make it perfect for use at small sizes in print and on screen. Fraktion comes with a fixed-width sister family, also in five weights, and both are available as variable fonts.

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Boogy Brut by Bureau Brut

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Boogy Brut is the offspring of a collaboration between calligrapher Boogy Paper and type foundry Bureau Brut. I’m honestly speechless, so let me quote the words of Typographica’s editor Stephen Coles for this one: “Can’t think of a better typographic representation of original contemporary calligraphy than Boogy Brut. And more proof that many of today’s most exciting fonts are available not from Adobe, Google, or Monotype, but directly from their creators.” Well, I couldn’t agree more 😎

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Pachinko by A is for fonts

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Designed by Émilie Rigaud, Pachinko is an original take on the rounded genre. The typeface was named after the pachinko, a gambling machine only found in Japan. The family comes in two weights, Regular and Bold. Each weight includes three styles: a proportional Text, its mono counterpart, and an italic cut that is normally monospaced, but can be turned proportional thanks to its alternate stylistic set. Pachinko comes with a unique range of pictograms (a Gameboy!) and framed letters and numerals.

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Freshly Updated

Right Grotesk now comes with italics, a Text version, support for Cyrillic, and a ‘mini’ variable font for each subfamily.

☞ Milieu Grotesque’s Maison Neue now supports Cyrillic and Vietnamese, and a variable font is available for testing.

☞ Four new families with narrower widths, and a monospaced, were added to Optimo’s Theinhardt collection.

Goods

Colophon wants to keep you warm with the Coign blanket.

Dinamo’s ultra soft toothbrush won’t kern your teeth, but it’s damn stylish.

Thanks for reading and happy holidays! ☃️🎄

Fresh Fonts is curated by Noemi Stauffer and Christophe Bouche. If you enjoy this newsletter, you can support it by joining the Fresh Fonts Club, or by pre-ordering your Half Price Card 💙

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