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March 21, 2022

An Eternally Modern Vintage Font

Fairy Spirit is the font Alfons Mucha wished he had. Indeed, this stylish display typeface was inspired by early 20th Century letters with a "touch of modernity," as described by designer Ivan Rosenberg. With its evocations of Art Nouveau, Fairy Spirit is imbued with the timeless modernity of ea...

March 20, 2022

An Ideal Font for Mobile Apps

Elegant, subtly artistic, and straight to the point: Givonic. This variable font from Letterhend Studio is a smooth sans serif with a dash of cool. It is especially suited to support logical, easy UI/UX design. With nine weights and eighteen styles, Givonic can be retooled through an iterative p...

March 10, 2022

A Font for the Retro Deep Dive

Rien is a decorative serif with the confident, understated strength of doric columns. At the same time, unique alternates add depth and delicacy that handily offset the font's staid aspect, if desired. The design's dramatic use of thick-thin contrast evokes an artsy, refined quality that prolong...

January 21, 2022

TT Ricks from TypeType: Strong Contrasts, Sharp Serifs

TT Ricks from Type Type is a sharp font both figuratively and literally. It has a polished, sly quality that recalls the spirit of the fairytale Puss and Boots. In fact, the 'k' from TT Ricks has a distinct visual echo of a famous illustration from the timeless Italian tale. Detailing like that ...

January 4, 2022

Mafinest: A Glorious Modern Grotesk from Craft Supply Co.

Mafinest from Craft Supply Co. is a modern grotesk sans serif for display or short text. It combines the hard and straight with the curved and soft in a way that evokes motion. There is an initial hint of the discordant: symbols that should be straight are not, they are smooth and curvy, undulat...

August 20, 2021

Think Up Up

Designer Julie Green's Up Up Creative is a powerhouse design studio whose work has appeared in Martha Stewart Living, BRIDES Magazine, Apartment Therapy, Design Milk, and Decor8. Up Up's fonts have been used by Oxford University Press, Penguin Random House, Chronicle Books, and A24 Films, to nam...

August 18, 2021

Hugh Ultra Wide—Big and Bold

The first fat font is generally attributed to Robert Thorne. He developed it in 1803 at his Fann Street Foundry—appropriately located in a former brewery. Fat fonts subsequently rose to prominence wherever bold was needed, often advertising and poster art. In keeping with the fat tradition, Hugh...

August 14, 2021

Stéphanie Brusick: Our Étoile

Étoile is a modern, classy sans serif that is versatile and original. Consider its unique lowercase f, i, and t. The f's head tilts back incredulously, a thinker questioning authority. The dot of the i is an upwardly mobile droplet, an upbeat tear rebelling against the crowd. The enigmatic t pro...

March 29, 2021

New Fonts by Yellow Design Studio & Mark Simonson!

Cardium by Yellow Design Studio Cardium is a hard-working 54-font modern geometric sans. It’s versatile, clean, legible, and slightly dissident. Cardium shares much of its DNA with our Draft type suite but is more utilitarian. It’s a comprehensive family with nine weights from Hairline to Black ...

August 19, 2020

El Grosa: A Trio of Fonts That Celebrate Spanish Culture

Based in Indonesia, Wisnu Cipto Wibowo is a talented illustrator and typographer who revels in the artistic freedom offered by his chosen profession. His favorite part of the process is the gathering of ideas and watching them materialize before his eyes as he designs them. Taking all of his “wi...

July 6, 2020

Font Feature of the Month: Qirate Mono From Wisnu Cipto Wibowo

Living with his spouse and son in Indonesia, Wisnu Cipto Wibowo is a type designer and illustrator who releases work under the studio label, Fateh Lab. Aside from working on his own font projects, Wisnu works as a freelance illustrator for several brands and products. The one thing that draws Wi...

March 30, 2020

Rationell: A New Corporate Sans Serif From PeGGO Fonts

Pedro González is an accomplished conceptual artist, illustrator, and oil painter whose love for lettering inspired him to pursue type design. Based in Chile, Pedro’s independent type foundry, PeGGO Fonts, began as an exploration of calligraphy and calligraphy-based fonts. Over time, however, h...

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