Gradient is a small independent type foundry based in Bergen, Norway, taking the stance that the deconstruction of traditional typography combined with various type experiments can re-imagine the future of contemporary typography. Their latest type offering, Okay! Serif, plays on…
The first typeface created by Fatima Abbas (@fatimaib_), Brier, is a sensitively crafted display with unique design features that positions it perfectly for use in artful identities, branding and more. Currently a graphic design student at Virginia Commonwealth University School…
Dedicated to the remembrance of his late grandmother, Taiwan-based freelance Graphic Designer Shun-Zhi Yang (楊順志) has created a project entitled The Buddhist Sutra Reconstruction, which merges traditionally inspired scriptures with performance-based elements to reimagine ancient Chinese typographic practices and spiritual elements…
A type designer, academic and educator, David Březina has spent the majority of the last ten years running his type foundry, Rosetta, which focuses on producing multi-script typefaces. Having recently finished his PhD on visual similarity and coherence in typeface…
With chiseled finishes inherited from calligraphy, Morillas Sans is a new, contemporary yet timeless typeface that seeks to unite tradition and innovation in the same typographic skeleton. With extended proportions and open counterforms, the typeface reflects in its shapes the…
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…
Freshly dropped by Grilli Type earlier today, GT Maru is a bold, explorative, expansive new typeface release that strikes the perfect chord between joyfulness and functionality. The new typeface arrives with five weights in both proportional and monospaced subfamilies—all accompanied…
Roma Serif is an imaginative, decorative display typeface freshly released from the incredible Alli Cunanan. Being upper-cased focused, Roma Serif is beautifully designed to create a strong, elegant impact across various display settings. Alli has undoubtably been making some of…
Founded by Wayne Fearnley, MyType creates typefaces to lead the way in modern design without dropping the lessons of the past. Having previously released the beautiful yet subtle Metrik, the elegant stencil Céline, and the super bold condensed display Quench…
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…
For Christoph Koeberlin, creating Pangea grew as a project in response one pivotal question: how can a typeface improve the world? He wanted to prove, to designers and the public alike, that those in the (type) design industry have the…
Perhaps the most defining element of Dae Huen Lee (Quicknap.zzz)’s new display typeface, Gosna, is its rhythmic, poetic fluidity and the deliciously intwining ligatures which follow. A musician as well as a designer, Quicknap.zzz says, ‘The design of Gosna font…
Like music, Rio de Janeiro-based (although currently remote) type design studio Plau believe that type has the power to spark conversations, bring people together and move ideas forward. This conviction sits fittingly with their recent work for Brazilian TV channel,…
While Daan Rietbergen believes leaning into variable fonts for their dynamism and flexibility is going to be of great importance in the type world to come, he’s hasty to add that what seems more important—despite a fast-paced design culture that…
Brand new from Ellen Luff Type Foundry, we’re super excited to introduce this new addition to Type Department’s collection. Jeko is a gorgeous take on a contemporary geometric sans typeface which comes with the option of a variable font, alongside…
