(Atlas of Type) Recent releases #14

A look at the type releases of the past week.

• Altiplano released Citizen Grotesk Poster, a display sans designed by Raphaël Verona that applies the methodical spirit characteristic of the International Style to move beyond the fantasy of purity, universalism, and neutrality.
• Blaze Type released Systm, a modular / dot matrix typeface designed by Simon Helmstetter.
• Also from Blaze Type, Collapse is a condensed serif designed by Axel “Keussel” Andre, loosely inspired by the type used in the opening titles for Neon Genesis Evengelion.
• Brandon Nickerson released BN Sailor, a display typeface inspired by Adriana, a film typeface of unknown origin.
• Bretagne type foundry released Chantier, a slab serif designed by Lucas Le Bihan blending features from Egizio (Nebiolo, 1955) and type used in poster specimens housed at the Brittany Museum in Rennes.
• Lift Type released Melun, a geometric sans by Romain Oudin and Manuel de Lignières.
• Parachute released PF Grecia, a calligraphic serif by Panos Vassiliou that takes inspiration from Darley, a National Geographic map typeface designed by Charles E. Riddiford in the 1930s.
• Production Type released Paramount Rounded and Paramount Neo Rounded, the rounded counterparts of the two families from the Paramount geometric sans collection designed by Chi-Long Trieu in 2023.
• Schick Toikka added a text variant to Items, a contemporary typeface informed by the pervasive serifs of the early digital period, designed by Florian Schick and Lauri Toikka. Fonts are available in three widths: Items Text, Items Text Condensed, and Items Text Wide (via Typecache).
• Show Me Fonts released Marjoree, a uniwidth sans serif designed by Catalogtree and Bernd Volmer. Marjoree is available in monospaced and proportional spacing, and is supplemented by two modular display styles based on hexagon and pentagon tessellations.
• Simplebits released Hubano, a typeface inspired by lettering found on a Cuban cigar box, designed by Dan Cederholm.
• Skrr released Pompeji, a typeface inspired by graffiti on the walls of Pompeii, designed by Lisa Semrau.
• Synthview released Artford, a sans serif by Jan Tonellato.
• Tokotype released Frasa Display, the display counterpart of Gumpita Rahayu’s Frasa contemporary serif with characteristics that arise from the charms of Caslon and a touch of transitional style.
• XYZ Type released Plumbago, a monospaced display typeface by Zrinka Buljubašić, Travis Kochel, and Chris Skillern inspired by Salt Lake City’s strict street grid and the style of lettering used for the streetcars that once ran on it.

Dalton Maag has debuted the Recast Collection, an initiative to produce faithful revivals of classic typeface designs. The initial set on offer includes:

• Lubalin Recast Sans and Lubalin Recast Serif, interpretations by Yingtong Tan and Angel Kwong of ITC Avant Garde Gothic (ITC, 1970) and ITC Lubalin Graph (ITC, 1974), respectively.
• Haas Recast, an interpretation by Eduardo Rennó of Helvetica (Haas, 1956).

To celebrate the foundry’s 30th anniversary, Typofonderie released five new typefaces:

• Alembert, a typeface by Jean François Porchez inspired by Bâtarde and Coulée scripts from 17th- and 18th-century France.
• Alyssa, a calligraphic typeface by Mark De Winne that pays homage to the iconic ATF Florentine, and follows designer Mark De Winne’s deepening fascination with the work of lettering masters Oscar Ogg, Arthur Baker and Helmut Salden.
• Aukio by Léo Guibert, a high-contrast display typeface with details inspired by the calligraphic practice of the Nordic countries, referencing designs such as Karl–Erik Forsberg’s Carolus and Paul Shaw’s Swedish Modern Set.
• Capek, a Blackletter sans-serif with sci-fi references, originally designed by Aurélien Vret in 2014.
• Zingiber, a typographic distillation of Xavier Dupré’s handwritten style.

Catching up with releases from the past few weeks/months.

MuirMcNeil released three new typefaces designed by Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil:

• Sans Norm, a mechanized companion to Sans Sans whose forms refer to utilitarian twentieth century geometric designs like DIN 1451, Isonorm and OCR-A.
• Ubu, a modular geometric type system.
• TwoSix, an adaptation of FF ThreeSix (FontFont, 2012) to the foundry’s Two Type system.

Other releases:

• Detail debuted Norm, an ongoing study of grotesques as a visual phenomenon by Makoto Kamimura. The first families in the collection are Norm No.6 and Norm No.11 (Summer 2024).
• F37 Foundry released F37 Atlantic, a typeface inspired by Herb Lubalin’s ITC Serif Gothic (ITC, 1972), designed by Rick Banks, Alfonso García, and Manuel von Gebhardi (Sept 2024).
• Lipton Letter Design has a new website to showcase Richard Lipton’s designs, the latest of which is Ellery, a display typeface inspired by Oscar Ogg’s calligraphed book jackets from the ’40s for Atlantic/Little-Brown & Company.
• LudwigType released Daphne, a version of Georg Salden’s Daphne (1970), possibly redrawn and/or reingeneered by Ludwig Übele (Sept 2024).
• Mint Type released Scuto Sans and Scuto Soft, a pair of sans serifs designed by Oleh Lishchuk (Sept 2024).
• muccaTypo released Primissima, a display typeface by Matteo Bologna (date unknown).
• Range Left released Barbican, a typeface designed by Clément Cases, inspired by the eponymous brutalist landmark (Sept 2024).
• After releasing them through Type Network earlier this year, Reber R41 have added several new typefaces to their Aldo Novarese Font Collection: Donatello, Estro, Eurostile, Inglesi Allungati, Orlando, and Ritmo.
• Resistenza released Revolute, a stencil sans inspired by Resolut (Nebiolo, 1937) (Aug 2024).
• Studio Type published two new typefaces designed by Jo De Baerdemaeker as part of the Typo Belgiëque project. ST Toone, released in September, and the earlier ST Guust are both inspired by poster faces from the type collection of Fonderie Typographique A. Vanderborght & Dumont, a 19th century foundry in Brussels.
• Typografische released FH Oscar Pro, an typeface that expands on Fatish Hardal’s FH Oscar modeled on Akzidenz-Grotesk (Berthold, 1898) and Breite Grotesk (Bauer) (Oct 2024). Previously, Hardal published the contemporary serif FH Anorma (Aug 2024).

In other news:

• Vying for coolest feature of LaPolice’s new website is a blinking dot relaying the RSS feed in Morse code, and a growing article archive from the magazine’s out-of-print issues. It currently includes a profile of A.V. Hershey, who created some of the first vector fonts, and a story of the Haas Foundry in Switzerland. What’s not out of print yet is the latest issue, Footnotes E, published in May.
• At the Ottmar Mergenthaler Museum in the town of Bad Mergentheim in Germany, Doug Wilson finds a cache of historical images.
• Veronika Burian in conversation with Adelina Shaidullina: “Type design is a collaborative activity”.
• Recordings from ATypI 2024 talks in Brisbane are now available on YouTube.

P.S. Atlas of Type has just reached a new power of ten! The Atlas now features 10,000+ typefaces, more than 500 of which were released this year alone.

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