Just in from Porto-based type foundry Nova Type, Loretta is a beautiful new body text typeface drenched in contemporary elegance. Well versed in type design before creating Nova Type Foundry in 2018, Founder Joana Correia set out to experiment with…
Want to learn how to choose the best font for your web page, how to create killer font pairings, or how to maximise the power of type in your UX/UI design? You’re in the right place. Working out how to…
The result of a collaboration between The Foundry Types (the independent type foundry of David Quay and Stuart de Rozario), and Amsterdam-based design studio Thonik (founded by Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven), Fernhout is the new typeface created for the…
We’re delighted to announce the addition of five juicy new weights to T1 Korium – the first ever font from our very own foundry, T1 Foundry! Designed in collaboration with Valerio Monopoli, also known as Morula Type, T1 Korium is a…
It can be hard sometimes to source simple, actionable tips about type design, especially as a young type designer when there’s so much to learn. Today, we’re delighted to welcome CoType Foundry founder Mark Bloom, who will be sharing 5…
UBERDANK is an innovative new display font deigned by Alan Cheetham, the graphic designer behind the brand identity and custom type oriented A Studio. Alan doesn’t usually create commercial typefaces, meaning UBERDANK‘s addition to Type Department is a very special…
“I think writing systems must flow with their languages, like rivers,” says Juan Casco (@juancascofonts), the Ecuadorian type designer, graphic designer and researcher behind the creation of the Silabario Amazonico (@silabarioamazonico) writing system. Created to support and uplift the communication of…
Designed by Warsaw-based type designer Agnieszka Ewa Olszewska (@agnieszka.ewa.olszewska), Zania is a stunning new typeface available on Type Department now. “Like with most of my letters,” the designer reflects, “I can’t really say where an idea comes from…I drew a…
Setting out to create a tool for optimal reading comfort in commercial word processing, Alex Dujet started working on the initial ideas for ES Face, independent Swiss type foundry Extraset’s new typeface, back in 2016. Blossoming into a stunning serif, ES…
Through the fusion of kinetic type and installation, Geneva-based Multidisciplinary Designer Leo Monnet (@monnet_leo) has been offering a fresh perspective on the environmental impact of our “addiction to concrete” in urban growth. The installation creates a comment not only on…
With his new display typeface, Moscow-based Multidisciplinary Designer Victor Pesotsky creates an intense atmosphere through a dramatic use of diagonal lines. “Due to the abundance of diagonal strokes,” Victor tells us, “the text set looks unusual, as if merging into…
With fonts laying somewhere between creative assets, artefacts of intellectual property, and intangible clusters of data, a huge challenge within the design industry now is trying to figure out a font buying system that works for everyone. That is, one…
Yai Salinas‘ (@yaisalinas) latest font, Cleo, is a mixture of Vaporwave aesthetics and modern and retro letterforms. A microgenre of electronic music, Vaporwave emerged as an internet-born aesthetic subculture in the early 2010s, and has since built itself a tongue-in-cheek,…
Tasked with designing an identity and custom font for an exhibition exploring sustainable fashion, Natalia Radnaeva has recently created an innovative custom font inspired by 3D printing, which will soon be available for purchase online. The young graphic designer is…
Blending the strength of the grid and the essence of the grotesk, Due Studio have just come through with Analo Grotesk, an unconventional pixel font that breaks away from the norm. With its modules rotated by 45 degrees in the…
