(Atlas of Type) Recent releases #15

A look at the type releases of the past week.

• A2-Type released No Parking, a display typeface by Henrik Kubel modeled after vernacular lettering found on a sidewalk in New York City.
• Blast Foundry released Big Issue, an editorial sans rooted in historical British grotesque type, designed by Barbara Bigosińska and Diana Ovezea.
• Blaze Type released Indecisive Sans and Indecisive Mono, the proportional and monospaced flavors of a geometric sans designed by Fred Wiltshire.
• Also from Blaze Type, Aman, a serif channeling Plantin (Monotype, 1913) and Times New Roman (Monotype, 1932), designed by Matthieu Salvaggio and Ferdinand Del Fabbro.
• Maxitype released Maligne, a geometric sans inspired by early 20th century sign painting, designed by Maximage and Isia Yurovsky.
• Pangram Pangram released Neue Corp, a sans by Maksym Kobuzan, Mat Desjardins, and Francesca Bolognini that combines features of Hamilton wood type and neo-grotesques such as Helvetica (Haas, 1957) and Univers (Deberny & Peignot, 1957).
• Sharp Type released Hauss and Raum, a workhorse sans and its inktrap-dented display variant, designed by Justin Sloane and Huw Williams.
• Sophia Tai released on Future Fonts the first version of Hetskelet, a typeface with a flared body and a sans inline.
• Storm Type released Populus, an attempt at a more robust monolinear counterpart to Areplos, a semi-serif designed by Jan Solpera with František Štorm.
• Grilli Type released GT Flaire, a humanist sans designed by Reto Moser with an axis that interpolates between monolinear and reverse-contrased, flared forms.
• Displaay released Season, a collection designed by Martin Vácha that interpolates between sans and serif.

DSType added a section for early release typefaces. The typefaces featured, all designed by Pedro Leal and Dino dos Santos:

• Habil, a pointed-pen calligraphic script referencing António Jacinto de Araújo’s Nova Arte de Escrever (1797).
• Pulso, an editorial serif currently featuring text styles.
• Rigor and Rigor Ionic, a grotesque sans and slab serif designed to bring together distinct historical sources into a cohesive system.

Updates and expansions:

• Detail released Norm No.15, the third member of the Norm collection, a systematic exploration of the sans serif genre by Makoto Kamimura.
• James Plattner updated the calligraphic serif Bitzer with six weights and a variable font.
• MuirMcNeil released TwoSix IO, a typeface designed by Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil, featuring inline and outline styles complementary to the foundry’s TwoSix family.
• The Northern Block released Nurom Next, a sans influenced by early grotesques, designed by Jonathan Hill and Tasos Varipatis as an evolution of Nurom (2017).
• Spaghetype rounded up Monstera, an Art Nouveau-inspired display typeface by Pauline Fourest, with an extended character set and a variable font that interpolates between the solid and the outline style for its Future Fonts graduation.
• Store Norske Skriftkompani updated Nora, a remix and elaboration of lettering alphabets created by the industrial designer Nora Gulbrandsen originally designed by Arve Båtevik in 2022, with additional weights and a variable font (via Typecache).
• Very Cool Studio published an update on Future Fonts for Gosh, a Eurostile/Microgramma-inspired sans by Kyle Benson.
• To mark the 101st anniversary of Italo Calvino’s birthday, Zetafonts extended the eponymous Calvino typeface with support for Arabic. Two faces derived from Calvino also received updates: Marcovaldo now has weights, and Visconte has optical sizes.

Catching up with a few releases:

• Céline Hurka released Reverie, a single style monospaced typeface with floral ornaments, encapsulating the dreamlike state of summer. Another recent release is the expansion of Gauche, an irreverent sans designed in collaboration with Jan Egbers, to five weights for the Roman style.
• Chill Type is a new foundry established by Vedad Siljak in Austria. The foundry’s inaugural release the display serif Bufano (via Proof&Co.)
• MCKL published a first release of Gear, an octagonal athletic sans by Jeremy Mickel.
• The Designers Foundry released Wulkan as a redraw and expansion in weights and optical sizes of Jan Estrada–Osmycki’s Wulkan Display (2019).

In other news:

• Kelli Anderson’s Alphabet in Motion. An ABC Pop-up Book on How Letters Get their Shape blasted through its Kickstarter goal on its first day, and for good reason: the pop-up book and its companion publication look stunning.
• Tim Brown’s Flexible typesetting, originally published with A List Apart in 2018, is now available for free.
• Modern Pioneers in Typography and Design: Anna Simons, Edward Johnston, Rudolf von Larisch, F. H. Ehmcke by Inge Druckrey was published earlier this year with Edward Tufte’s Graphics Press. On November 10, Tobias Frere-Jones will be talking to the author in an event hosted by the Katherine Small Gallery in Boston, Massachusets.
• Elliot Jay Stocks’ Typographic & Sporadic and Proof&Co.’s The Weekly are two great type newsletters with a curated, narrative perspective on recent releases, among a variety of type-adjacent topics.

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