(Atlas of Type) Recent releases #30

Adam Ladd supplemented the optical sizes of Fields, a serif typeface influenced by ITC Souvenir (ITC, 1970) and originally released in 2023, with the rounded, low-contrast Big Ultra style. [ladd-design.com]

Aieou Tools released Zetal, a geometric sans designed by Andrea Biggio, inspired by the industrial modernism of signage on water tanks and cargo containers, blending the strong typographic heritage of the Enschedé foundry with mid-20th-century American influences. [aeiou.tools]

Beasts of England released Blackbike Two, a redraw of Simon Walker’s connected script typeface Blackbike, originally released in 2017. The new typefaces also includes new ligatures, swashes, and an expanded character set. [beastsofengland.co]

Blaze Type released Seraphine, a Didone in four optical sizes designed by Karol Mularczyk, available in nine weights in upright and italic styles, as well as a three-axis variable font. [blazetype.eu]

Also designed by Karol Mularczyk and released with Blaze Type, Galice is a humanist sans available in nine weights and their corresponding italics, and as a two-axis variable font. [blazetype.eu]

Branding with Type published on their new foundry website an update to Bw Darius, a serif typeface designed by Alberto Romanos and originally released in 2016. The new version contains Medium and Extra Bold weights. [brandingwithtype.com]

Brandon Nickerson released BN Crocker, a heavy, condensed sans inspired by Permanent Massiv (Ludwig & Mayer, 1967). [bnicks.com]

Dank is an interpretation by Axel Pelletanche of Bank Gothic (ATF, 1930). The first installment of the typeface is caps-only, with terminals reminiscent of Morris Fuller Benton’s design available as a stylistic set. [ott-foundry.com]

Horizon is a reverse-contrast, caps-only, condensed display slab font with a wooden type feeling designed by Quentin Coulombier as a synthesis of various 20th-century typefaces in the French Antique style. [ott-foundry.com]

Emtype Foundry updated Steradian, a sans serif designed by Eduardo Manso and originally released in 2018, with a variable font version. [emtype.net]

Formagari released Yet Grotesk, an utilitarian sans designed by Emmanuel Besse which seeks balance, stays humble, and aims to straightforwardly convey its intended message, influenced by Akzidenz-Grotesk (Berthold, 1898), Record Gothic (Ludlow, 1927), and Gerstner-Program (Berthold, 1964), as well as more recent references such as Arial (Monotype, 1982). [formagari.com]

Groteskly Yours Studio has a new foundry website. Their newest release, published at the end of 2024, is Jouter Sans, a sans serif designed by Anna Remm and Eugene Tantsurin, inspired by a selection of Gothic typefaces from an 1867 Farmer type catalogue. [groteskly.xyz]

James Plattner released Egads, a display sans that leans into the energy of classic geo-sans typefaces like ITC Kabel and Grizzly, but subverts that familiar feeling of order with its highly exaggerated bottom-heaviness. [futurefonts.xyz]

Jason Santa Maria released the initial version of Citywide, a sans serif inspired by the type on midcentury bus and train destination blinds. Available in five weights and five widths in upright and italic styles, and as a multi-axis variable font. Currently caps-only, with a lowercase planned for a future release. [shop.jasonsantamaria.com]

Lineto released LL Kristall, a humanist sans designed by Laurenz Brunner that completes a trilogy of sans serif designs started with the neo-grotesque LL Akkurat (2004) and continued with the geometric LL Circular (2013). Originally designed for the Arnhem Fashion Biennale in 2011 and further developed as a custom typeface for Kaleidoscope Magazine, LL Kristal is influenced by various strands of the UK typographic tradition, such as Edward Johnston’s typeface for London Underground and Margaret Calvert’s Transport. [lineto.com]

LucasFonts released CorpidMono, the monospaced companion to Corpid, a sans serif originally designed by Luc[as] de Groot in 1997 as the corporate typeface for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fishing. [lucasfonts.com]

MuirMcNeil released Flip, a collection of seven sans serif typefaces designed by Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil that explore aspects of symmetry in the roman alphabet. Based on Sans Sans, the character set of each individual variant font is governed throughout by a single axis of symmetry: either vertical, horizontal, rotational, biaxial or multiaxial. [muirmcneil.com]

NaN released NaN Serf Sans, the sans-serif companion to Nan Serf (2024), designed by Hugues Gentile, Fadhl Haqq, Léon Hugues, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Luke Prowse, and Florian Runge, with script consultancy from Daria Cohen (Cyrillic) and Ben Mitchell (Thai). [nan.xyz]

Pangram Pangram finalized PP Model, an homage to the world of plastic model kits, drawing inspiration from the iconic Japanese brand Tamiya, designed by Caio Kondo, Francesca Bolognini, and Mathieu Desjardins. Initially published in 2024 as an early-access release, PP Model is available in proportional and monospaced spacing, complemented by two Plastic variants. [pangrampangram.com]

Playtype released Noir No1 Arabic, the Naskh-style complement to Noir No1 (2019) that tries to get close to abstract shapes without losing the authenticy and visual aspects of Arabic script, designed by Bahman Eslami and Jonas Hecksher. [playtype.com] (via Typecache).

Proof of Words finalized PoW Alara, a sans serif that pays tribute to Pharaon (Deberny & Peignot, 1933), designed by Léo Guibert and originally released in 2023. The new version features matching italic styles for all weights. [proof-of-words.com]

Shapes for Cash released EnjoyFun, a weighty, slightly italicised counterless collection of rascals designed by Timothy Donaldson. The initial release includes two weight extremes: the heavy, counterless Squodge, and the thin, quasi-monolinear Bone. All styles in the family are planned to be metrically compatible, enabling chromatic effects via layering. [shapesforcash.com]

Suitcase Type Foundry released Eroticon, a condensed high-contrast serif typeface with wide, swashy alternate letterforms, designed by Tomáš Brousil. [suitcasetype.com]

Tortilla.studio released Teléfono, a thin connected script typeface designed by Miguel Contreras under the direction of Romina Hernández. [futurefonts.xyz]

TypeType updated TT Ramillas, a high-contrast flared serif originally released in 2020, with floral initials for each weight, as well as an expanded character set. Design credits for the updated version include Yulia Gonina, Pavel Emelyanov, Marina Khodak, Antonina Zhulkova, Kseniya Karataeva, Sia Vrublevskaya, and Nadyr Rakhimov. [typetype.org]

Zetafonts released Autarchist, a typographic odyssey through the aesthetics of 1970s and 1980s science fiction and horror designed by Andrea Tartarelli and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini. Autarchist is available in sans, serif, and ‘super serif’ variants across a variety of weights, as well as a two-axis variable font. [zetafonts.com]

Thicker Narrows, designed by Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli, complement the geometric sans Thicker (2019) with Condensed and Compressed widths. [zetafonts.com]

Codec Pro Narrows, designed by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli, and Mario De Libero, updates the geometric sans Codec Pro (2019) with three new widths: Compressed, Condensed, and Narrow. [zetafonts.com]