FF Turmino
FF Turmino by Ole Schäfer As May draws to a close, we wrap our series on faces from the FontFont Collection Tier. The whole process has been a great chance to look back through some of the early experiments of now-well-known designers, or just to come across great designs that have fallen out of common use. It’s [...]
New Fonts This Week
Here’s all our latest. For more in-depth coverage on these, sign up for our newsletter. New Foundry Arabetics Sideshow Grilled Chicken Tart Workshop Aya Script
FF Kipp
FF Kipp by Claudia Kipp In or out of register, FF Kipp allows the typographer to add a bit of subtle contrast or visible wear by using any of its four distressed overlay fonts.
New Display Faces from FaceType
With the addition of FaceType’s library to FontShop’s offerings came loads of new display faces — too many to cover in a single newsletter. So we picked out a few to present here on the blog. Moki by Marcus Sterz Moki is a squared-off monolinear geometric available in a number of variants, including distressed, stencil, rounded, [...]
Staff Picks, May 2012
May Staff picks are in. Take a look at the complete list, or just these highlights. David picks Capucine by Alice Savoie, published by Process Type Foundry “… for its sparkling, inky texture.” Mark Picks Indy™ Italic by Charles E. Hughes, published by ITC “Elegant with a slight hint of ninja.” Ivo picks FF Tundra by Ludwig Übele “There are [...]
Touch Press Puts Mobile FontFonts to Good Use
London-based Touch Press publishes books and other collections in the new medium ushered in by the iPad. Among their titles you’ll find such successes as Theodore Gray’s The Elements and Marcus Chown’s Solar System. It’s a young company started by media producer Max Whitby and author Theodore Gray, built on the premise that our present idea [...]
FF Brokenscript
FF Brokenscript by Just van Rossum Contemporary as it is, FF Brokenscript takes its name and construction from a centuries-old gothic blackletter hand. Its strokes, rather than flowing into one another to close the forms stop short, and there remain f...
This Week’s New Fonts
There’s more to come on this week’s new foundry and great new faces, but for now, here’s all our latest news: New foundry MB Type Including MB Type’s first official release, Equity Plus these from: Filmotype Adonis Major Fami...
FF Backstage
FF Backstage by Stephan Müller, Cornel Windlin FontFonts from the Collection Tier are value-minded font packages, combining cohesive designs from individual families, or multiple faces from multiple designers. FF Backstage is three stencil faces: FF ...
