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Use your end-of-the-year budget wisely by licensing versatile workhorse sans and serif families from independent foundries. Beaufort from ShinnType and Seravek from Process Type Foundry will serve you well for a variety of projects over the next year. While you’re at it, gobble up quality new display fonts from Sudtipos, Comicraft, TypeTogether, and P22. |
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Nick Shinn revisited his classic sharp serif and produced an OpenType family of function and beauty with small caps, a wide range of figure styles, and support for over 50 languages, including those of Eastern Europe and Turkey.
In style, Beaufort has a number of affinities. The bold romans recall a kind of “grotesque with small serifs” style popular with sign and package lettering artists in the early 20th century, and still fashionable today for packaging and brand marks. In proportion, Beaufort is in the vein of classic oldstyle text serifs. |
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An interpretation of the lettering of contemporary illustrator Amanda Duffy (AKA Loser Girl), these fonts brilliantly emulate the artist’s hand with four glyphs for each character (including all numbers, punctuation, and symbols). Using the Contextual Alternates feature, the letters are set in a pseudo-random order, for a subtle, natural effect. An unusual claim for casual display type: the Duffy fonts support every language which uses the Latin script, with a total of over 1200 glyphs in each font. |
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Over four years, Eric Olson honed this linear sans serif to perform in identity, editorial, and information design. Five weights span Bold to Extra Light with italics, facilitating a range of aesthetic and utilitarian applications. Seravek is available in two grades: Basic and Complete. We recommend the latter which comes with the small caps and various figure styles you need for setting professional type, plus an alternate ‘g’ and a variety of useful arrows and fractions. |
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The unmistakable hand of Angel Koziupa and the technical expertise of Alejandro Paul brings us once more the kind of calligraphy that reads softly yet commands attention. This time around, Koziupa’s statement adds a slightly coarse and rusty aura to the usual elegance, which makes Oxida an indispensable typeface for use at large sizes, particularly in poster design, book covers, and culinary packaging. |
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A straight-sided, mechanical sans serif with a nod to the sign painters’ gothics of the 1920s and ’30s, Elephantmen is available in regular and aged skin. |
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Though it shares its ancestry with more familiar blackletter styles, the bâtarde flamande evolved into an aesthetic far removed from its relatives, more delicate and dynamic than a fraktur or textura. Tom Grace created Givry in that spirit. Carefully researched and developed in OpenType format for a wealth of typographic features and support for more than forty languages, Givry is neither derivative nor experimental, but historically accurate. |
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In this smooth reworking of his popular rough textured Roanoke, Ted Staunton retains the essence of historical handwriting yet gives the style a much more elegant effect. Albemarle Pro features at least one alternate for each cap and many lower case characters. The Pro font also features a full CE character set and more with over 600 glyphs. |
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Kaz is a casual yet sturdy hand lettering font, somewhere between architectural lettering and Comic Sans, yet much more palatable than either. Available in two weights to emulate a thick or fine pen. |
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Three years in the making, the story of Erik Spiekermann’s latest typeface deserved more than what our standard online specimens could offer. Follow the thread of creation by Spiekermann, Christian Schwartz, and Kris Sowersby; tour the font packages and features; and browse a gallery of FF Meta Serif in use. |
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The world’s first digital typewriter font is now the world’s best typewriter font. Introducing the all new, high-def, multilingual, intelligent FF Trixie. Explore a font family so intriguing, so high tech, it spawned its own movie trailer. |
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