(Atlas of Type) Recent releases #11

A look at the type releases of the past week.

• Arillatype released At Umami, a rounded sans inspired by Japanese visual culture designed by Pedro Arilla and Julián Moncada.
• ArrowType published on Future Fonts an update to Kyrios, a curious, slightly psychedelic blackletter family designed by Stephen Nixon, to include a weight axis, Blackletter uppercase, and an extended character set.
• Brandon Nickerson released BN Kossell, an interpretation of a ’70s display typeface.
• Displaay released Booton, an uniwidth sans for user interfaces designed by Daniel Quisek.
• DJR released Job French Clarendon by David Jonathan Ross as the September offer of the foundry’s Font of the Month Club.
• Erkin Karamemet released EK Baumer Grotesk, a neo-grotesque sans designed in collaboration with Gregor Maria Sahl (via Typecache).
• Identity Letters updated the design of Glance Sans and Glance Slab, two stencil-like typefaces designed by Moritz Kleinsorge.
• Power Type released Artific, a sans serif designed by Teguh Arief.
• Skritur updated with matching italics Brito, a sans serif by Fañch Le Henaff, Yoann De Roeck, and Malou Verlomme originating from ’90s designs.
• Suitcase released Icona Serif, a neutral serif typeface designed by Tomáš Brousil to complement Icona Sans (via Typecache).
• TypeTogether reissued Chaco, a signage typeface originally designed by Rubén Fontana in 2008.

Dinamo extended Diatype into a global type family, covering several writing systems:

• Diatype Arabic, designed by Wael Morcos, Khajag Apelian, and Lana Abou Soufeh.
• Diatype Armenian, designed by Gor Jihanian.
• Diatype Cyrillic, designed by Olga Umpeleva.
• Diatype Devanagari, designed by Kimya Gandhi.
• Diatype Georgian, designed by Ana Sanikidze.
• Diatype Greek, designed by Panagiotis Haratzopoulos.
• Diatype Hebrew, designed by Yanek Iontef and Daniel Grumer.
• Diatype Latin, designed by Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, Elias Hanzer, Erkin Karamemet, Renan Rosatti, Andree Paat, and Đức Cao (Vietnamese).
• Diatype Thai, designed by Boom Promphan Suksumek.

Earlier in September, CoType released the Lock collection designed by Mark Bloom and Diana Ovezea, which explores the balance between broad-nib calligraphy and industrial design. (Despite having added it to the directory, it seems I accidentally omitted it from the weekly news.)

In other news:

• Boom Promphan Suksumek visits LƯU CHỮ, Vietnam’s graphic & type archive.
• A new book by Itemzero, Paper, Paper, Paper explores paper manufacturing, transformation and handling techniques.
• James Grieshaber launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund The Virgin Wood Type Bible

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