The new variable font blends fresh with familiar, drawing on inspiration from mid-century industrial designers and injecting flexibility into an aesthetic of ‘deliberate conformism.’ Before putting pen to paper, Loew was a typeface that Jonathan Hill, a self-taught graphic artist…
Production Type has an exciting stack of new fonts on the way from the likes of Hélène Marian, Chi Long Trieu and Max Esnée. We spoke to all three to discover what’s in store. But first, let’s introduce our designers.…
Jan Fromm, designer of Fontwerk’s latest type system, Nice, on designing vast, varied type systems and complex superfamilies. ZLM: Hi, Jan. What was your personal motivation for creating Nice? JF: I wanted to make a text family that was infused…
Blaze Type has just launched the Incarnate Collection—a new font-studded product range. We take a closer look. The new collection features a range of stunning limited edition pieces, embellished with gems from Blaze’s font collection. Including the SFTB Shirt, BLZT…
New fonts from CoType Foundry! Whilst Aeonik Mono offers a true monospaced font, Aeonik Fono shapeshifts—giving the look of a mono, without all the typesetting struggles… Building on the already much-loved Aeonik, Mark Bloom of CoType embarked on creating some monospaced…
Custom fonts are a steadfastly popular way that brands connect with customers in a unique, memorable voice. “If a brand is a person,” Mucca studio founder Matteo Bologna has said, for example, “its custom font is like the sound of…
For multi-award winning Designer Taurai Valerie Mtake, investigating the potential of design in contemporary African visual culture has been an area of interest for some time. In an ongoing project surrounding the revival of Nguni Symbol Writing, she examines Indigenous…
It has always been part of PP‘s ethos to empower the beautiful design community. This Font Starter Pack is one more way they’re doing just that. “Every graphic designer, aspiring or seasoned, needs great tools,” says Pangram Pangram‘s founder, Mathieu…
Eko Setiawan delivers not one, not two, but four delightful new fonts to sink our teeth into. Here’s the roundup… Designing under the name Emyself Design, Eko is an Indonesia-based graphic designer who’s been creating fonts since 2018. Following a…
For Type-01, Production Type’s Jean-Baptiste Levée digs out the best gems of his foundry’s work library…Spoiler: it’s not your usual collection of grimoires. The hypercenter of Paris hosts Production Type, one of France’s most prolific type foundries. In this article,…
It’s only been a year and a half since Pangea was first released (more on that here), but thanks to the ongoing donation of a quarter of all designer royalties, over 75,000 trees have been planted, and at least 2,600…
Recently, we had the opportunity speak with Ran Zhen on the subject of climbing the ladder and becoming a senior designer in the (type) design industry as a woman. A multidisciplinary senior designer at Pentagram, New York, Ran has built…
We’re honoured to welcome the wonderful Production Type for a guest post today. They offer their expert eyes to reveal 12 top type designers you need on your radar in 2022… Some new blood, some seasoned crafters: here is a…
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…
Designing new type systems that are visually harmonised across diverse language contexts is no small feat. The aesthetics of the Latin script, for example, may not easily be translated to Arabic or Hebrew environments. In this way, the concept of…
