Fresh Fonts

February 18 · Issue #80 · 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 📬

This month, we’re excited to welcome Dennis Moya Razafimandimby as the guest curator of this issue! Based in Lausanne, Dennis is an Art Director and a Curator working for Hørde agency. Passionate about visual culture, he is behind several projects that serve the creative community, such as Instagram accounts @swissposters and @curatedcontent.cc. Naturally, Dennis is also involved in type design, and is a founding partner at Newglyph. Hope you enjoy his selection and see you next month ✌️ — Noemi (@noemistauffer)

Font family you missed

Last week, members received the full family of Allrounder Grotesk to use freely in all their projects. Don’t miss out on free font families, become a member today for only $5/month 🌟

Fictional use of Allrounder Grotesk on the website of Adam Katz

Allrounder Grotesk by Identity Letters

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After several successful releases, Moritz Kleinsorge launched his own foundry. Called Identity Letters, its retail catalogues counts twelve typefaces, including Allrounder Grotesk. A workhorse designed to fit in a wide range of contexts, Allrounder Grotesk is particularly well covered in thin weights, with a Light, an Extra Light, a Thin and even an Air style. And it’s a great pairing to Allrounder Monument or Allrounder Antiqua.

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Fresh releases

Magnet Headline

Magnet Standard

Magnet by Inga Plönnings

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You can’t go wrong using the Headline styles of this typeface. — Dennis Moya

Five years after the first sketches, Magnet is finally released into the world. It includes a Headline family in three styles (upright, slanted and backslanted) which comes with an alternate set of thin accents and punctuation marks. The Headline family is complemented by Standard, a text family with boxy curves, that takes well to dense settings and tight line spacing.

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Kak by Contrast Foundry

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I like the limited choices of its (extreme) styles. — Dennis Moya

CoFo Kak is a family of only three styles, but each one in a different weight and width, ranging from a condensed Regular to a wide Black. The typeface supports Latin and Cyrillic, and with licenses starting at $147 for the complete set, it’s a family that is both versatile and affordable. Plus, you guessed it, its different styles pair great together.

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Atlantique Miami by Altiplano

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I find this typeface elegant with a twist of contemporary shapes. — Dennis Moya

I’m glad Dennis picked this one because I wanted to feature it as well. Atlantique Miami was designed by Raphaël Verona, who runs Altiplano, one of the two foundries based in Lausanne. This typeface with a surprising aesthetic (and name) comes in five weights, from Light to Bold, with matching italics, plus as a variable font.

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Hémon by Chiachi Chao

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Sometimes we need that kind of highly expressive fonts to think our designs outside the box. — Dennis Moya

Designed by ECAL student Chiachi Chao, Hémon is a display script typeface in a single style, with a few alternates. The font was created as a result to a synesthetic design exercise, with letterforms inspired by the abstract paintings of Dutch artist Sedje Hémon. Its cursive letters with irregular, acute connections visually translate the crispy, noisy, and consecutive sound of indie rock music.

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Aloha by Ian Party

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An unusual monospace typeface mixing sans and serif aesthetics. – Dennis Moya

Developed with display use in mind, Aloha is a mélange of serif and sans serif letters, in turn combining sharp, rounded and even long horizontal serifs. This genre-bending monospace comes in five weights, from Think to Black, and as a variable font. Aloha is part of Newglyph’s Discovery Collection, which includes three other typefaces.

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Freshly updated

The Shingyo Reishotai typeface, in Chinese and Japanese, is now available from Fontworks

Brown Graphic and Brown Mono were added to LL Brown

Kanun Stencil, in Latin and Arabic, was added to Typotheque’s Kanun

Goods

This book explores the role of the city as an infrastructure for language

This cute 2021 desk calendar is typeset in CoType’s Ambit

Our fonts in use

Here’s a sneak peek at how members are putting our fonts to use. Don’t miss out — if you enjoy Fresh Fonts, become a member to support the newsletter and get new font families for only $5/month!