Welcome to issue 106!

Hey friends, welcome to a new issue of Fresh Fonts. I’ve gathered some interesting new fonts and many other things in today’s issue, and I’m excited to share it with you!

Enjoy! ✌︎ — Noemi

Typeface of the Month

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HLC Metra by Hugo Le Corre

Designed by Hugo Le Corre, HLC Metra was conceived as a “mixed-breed” typeface, with a design that assimilates distinctive shapes from both the Grotesk and the Geometric genres. Drawing inspiration from Akzidenz Grotesk and Twentieth Century, HLC Metra features harmonious proportions, with a generous x-height to ensure excellent legibility at smaller sizes. This also facilitates tight line spacing when using the typeface for titles — in which case its heavy weights like Black and Ultra will do wonders. The typeface includes several alternates that allow for a more geometric feel, such as the alternate ‘j’ and ‘t’ (pictured above). Also noteworthy, it features circled and squared figures, which are also available in a black version. HLC Metra comes in six weights, ranging from Regular to Ultra, with the italics currently under development.

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Cool New Foundry

Type of Feeling

The one and only Jessica Walsh has launched her own foundry, called Type of Feeling. In addition to offering custom typography services, the foundry launches with seven retail typefaces. Fun to note, the design process of these typefaces is based on an emotion, that the typeface is drawn to reflect or represent: “It was quite fun to find these different feelings or emotions and then figure out how to design a typeface around them.” explains the designer in this Co.Design article. The foundry’s starting catalogue covers many different genres, and the typefaces are reasonably priced. You can even license all seven typefaces in a package for personal use for US$75 ✨

Fresh Releases

Sagittaire by Blaze Type

Designed by Valerio Monopoli, Sagittaire is a high-contrast typeface with large serifs and beautiful, feather-like terminals. Both sharp and elegant, its design is “as much Baroque chancery calligraphy as it is slightly decadent end-of-century typography.” Built for a wide range of applications, Sagittaire comes in three optical sizes (Display, Standard, and Text). Each contains eight weights and their italic counterparts, as well as multiple alternates and ligatures, and is available as a variable font.

Mixtape by Superior Type

Mixtape is a geometric sans-serif designed for clear and easy reading at small sizes. According to its description, designer Rostislav Vaněk wanted to create a typeface that, with its aesthetics, touched the roots of Bauhaus and the avant-garde, but had a clear textual and useful character. The outcome is a typeface spanning nine weights across three widths, for a total of 27 font styles, plus matching italics. Although its focus is to deliver excellent readability even in the smallest point sizes, Mixtape can also be used for extremely large headlines thanks to its Condensed and Extra Condensed widths.

OPR Forum by Maximilian Inzinger

Forum is an elegant serif typeface designed by Maximilian Inzinger. Its roots trace back to the Renaissance’s profound fascination for perfect geometrical forms (i.e., the square and the circle) as observed in Roman inscriptions. This is most obvious in the Display style, as the Text style was designed with a more contemporary approach. The italic style however, called “Cursive”, deviates from a Roman template and has a lively and dynamic design suitable for both body text and headings. Forum is currently in version 0.1, meaning that it comes in only three styles (Display, Text, and Cursive) but the good news is that you’ll get all the upcoming styles for free if you choose to license it now.

Bull-5 by David Einwaller

Bull-5 is a type family with a nod to a particular style of typewriter fonts that emerged in the 1960s — presumably introduced through Olivetti, an Italian manufacturer of office products — carefully brought into the digital world by David Einwaller. The typeface consists of three families: Mono, Typewriter, and Proportional. Bull-5’s Mono styles capture the mechanical feel of the source material, with all its unique quirks and proportions. Its Proportional styles offer enhanced legibility, and lastly, its Typewriter styles embrace another iconic characteristic of typewriter fonts.

Creative Spotlight

Mariano Pascual

Mariano Pascual is a creative based in Barcelona that I had the pleasure to meet on a few occasions. He works across an eclectic variety of media, from prints and illustrations to miscellaneous objects that are one of a kind. Whatever the output, his work is always bold and playful, with vibrant colors. And his portfolio website is just as unique and amusing.

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