Welcome to issue 112!

Hey, it’s Noemi. Great to have you here! And if you’re brand new, welcome to the Fresh Fonts newsletter. I do have a 🎁 for you today. I introduced a section in the newsletter with a handpicked free font, near the bottom of the email. Click here to scroll down straight to it! And as always, if you have comments or feedback, just hit reply, I read and respond to every email I receive.

Stay fresh! 😊✌️ — Noemi

Typeface of the Month

Don’t just look at it, play with it! Upgrade to our paid membership and get a license of our typeface of the month 🥳

Micrograph from Emtype Foundry

Barcelona-based Emtype Foundry brings us Micrograph, a precise and distinctive sans-serif typeface. With features like rectangular terminals and square punctuation signs, the typeface maintains a neutral and technical tone. But notice how punctuation marks and diacritics are slightly oversized in the lighter weights, and gradually normalize as the weight increases. This gives Micrograph a subtle personality that sets it apart without compromising legibility in smaller text. Moreover, the typeface is equally suitable for display sizes, with its tight spacing, compact vertical proportions, and very short descenders. The family is available in eight weights, from Thin to Black, with matching italics, and a variable font version.

For a limited time, get a license for Micrograph when upgrading to our paid membership. You’ll get a license that allows for the following usage:

• The complete Micrograph font family (16 font styles + variable font)

• Use in your personal and commercial projects

• Desktop use (for up to 3 users)

• Web use (for up to 30k page views per month)

• The license doesn’t expire, so you can keep on using Micrograph in your projects forever — even after you cancel your membership.

By upgrading to our paid membership, you’ll receive a license to use a new typeface each month, unless you cancel your subscription, which you can do at any time. More info on our paid membership and FAQ on the Typeface of the Month offered as its main perk.

Cool New Foundry

Alexandre Créquer 🇫🇷

Alexandre Créquer, an independent graphic and type designer based in Lyon, France, has launched a new website publishing his own typefaces. He offers a diverse range of display fonts, from which I find Large extremely good. Close second for me would be Sagace, a quirky sans-serif in five weights with matching italics. But make sure to check his full catalogue, as two of his typefaces are available for free.

Fresh Releases

Business from Pizza Typefaces

The Business collection from Pizza Typefaces is an interesting superfamily that can serve many purposes. It includes three subfamilies, the most recent being Business Serif, a not-so-serious serif in two optical sizes (Text and Display). Then comes Business Blooming, a rather experimental but fanciful script typeface. Its perfect companion, Business Didot, is a confident and contemporary interpretation of the Didot model, which is also available in two optical sizes (Text and Display).

Exat from Hot Type

Hot Type published Exat, their most ambitious release to date. Named after EXAT 51, a prolific and pioneering group of Croatian architects and artists, the typeface comes in three widths (Condensed, Standard, and Wide) each including seven weights. Exat supports Latin and Cyrillic, and includes features and stylistic sets inspired by local Croatian graphic design quirks, such as modified thin accents. Pure bliss.

Base Pixel by Clément Cases

Base Pixel was created by Clément Cases in collaboration with Base (but not the design studio we all know). So what the hell is Base? Yes, good question. Base is an open-source crypto platform developed by Coinbase. It’s designed for developers to build “onchain apps” or in other words, applications on its blockchain network. Base Pixel, the typeface, is a variable font that goes from a serif inspired by Roman inscriptions to a highly pixelated design. And you can “mint it” for a limited time.

Free Fresh Font

Here is one of the free fonts featured in the last ⭐️ Premium issue ⭐️ of the newsletter.

Hedvig Letters by Kanon Foundry

Sweden’s Kanon Foundry was tasked with creating a font family for Hedvig, a digital insurance company. To reflect the brand philosophy, which is “to embrace the mistakes we make as humans”, it was decided to leave some imperfections in the typeface instead of visually correcting them. The outcome, Hedvig Letters, consists of three font styles that are designed to work together. As for the serif styles, Hedvig Letters Big is meant for the big print, and Hedvig Letters Small for the finer applications. Then comes the workhorse sans-serif style, Hedvig Letters Standard. You can download the fonts from GitHub, or use them via Google Fonts.

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