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The Ultimate Humanist Typeface for 2022

Regarding the stellar Centrale Sans Pro, Typedepot states, "finally we are ready to end this five-year journey and present you the typeface as we have always intended it to be." Centrale Sans is "a humanist typeface incorporating elements from the more rationally constructed grotesque fonts. Its characteristics are relatively large x-height and open apertures. The overall effect suggests approachability without the sentimentality carried by some of the more authentic humanist designs.

Serca: Geometric Sans Serif from Adam Ladd

Adam Ladd is a type designer based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He creates fonts that are professional, versatile, and perfectly rendered. His work is in demand: his fonts have been licensed by Harley Davidson, Food Network, Disney, Trader Joe's, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Costco, Penguin Random House, L.L. Bean, NHL Calgary Flames, Raising Cane's, and Blizzard entertainment. His areas of expertise include type design, font licensing, logos, graphic design, print design, magazine design, and art

Font Feature of the Month: Fiducia

Michael Parson is the graphic designer and typographer who established Typogama Digital Type Foundry, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Beginning as a library of sorts for his own design and font research in 2002, Typogama continually strives to create innovative type designs that provide real solutions in any designer’s workflow. One of Michael’s most recent releases is Fiducia, a gorgeous four-weight family inspired by the first Swiss banknotes at the start of the Industrial

Thirsty Soft: Warm Vintage Appeal in a Classic Cursive Script

Yellow Design Studio is one of the most notable sources of vintage-style typography available on YouWorkForThem. Their designs have been licensed by many international brands over the years, including Dr Pepper, Corona, Modelo, and Yuengling, just to name a few. What began as a print and web design business in 2004 eventually shifted toward a collaborative studio established, owned, and operated by Ryan and Rena Martinson. Yellow Design Studio features the fine artwork crafted by Rena

Fraktion Mono: A Squarish Monoline Sans Serif From Juri Zaech

Juri Zaech is an accomplished graphic designer, art director, and typographer who began his career during a typography apprenticeship in a design studio back in the 90s. Eventually, he went on to attend Miami Ad School in Hamburg and later spent many years working for larger design agencies throughout Paris before later relocating to his current home in Los Angeles. While Juri received a formal education in type design, he still considers it to be a “hobby” of sorts, only because he

Font Feature of the Month: Fraktion Sans From Juri Zaech

Juri Zaech is a designer and typographer based in Los Angeles, although his career initially began half a world away in Switzerland. Back in the 90s, Juri pursued an apprenticeship in typography and worked in a design studio for a couple of years before attending Miami Ad School in Hamburg. “The more conceptual work interested me,” he explained, “and the rather large film productions are a very exciting aspect of that job. Juri spent nearly a decade working for large agencies in

A New Condensed Geometric Sans Serif From Adam Ladd: Config

Based in Cincinnati, Adam Ladd has considerable experience in type design, graphic design, art direction, print design, logo design, and branding. He spent about four years as an art director and designer for HOW magazine, Print magazine, and Horticulture magazine before striking out on his own. During his time spent working in the publishing and media industry, he became intensely familiar with the typefaces and type treatments that worked the best when it came to body copy, headlines,

A Superfamily Of Contemporary Slab Serifs: Schnebel Slab

URW is one of the most notable (if not the most notable) type foundries in the world. The original iteration of URW, which began as Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, was established all the way back in 1972. Over the years that have passed since, the Hamburg-based company has remained at the forefront of type design and digital font technology. As the developers of the IKARUS type design and production software, which has been licensed by foundries throughout the world, URW is an absolute

A Condensed Modular Sans Serif From TypeType: TT Tunnels

TypeType was established as one of the first digital type foundries in St. Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 2013, this type foundry is one that pursues and celebrates collaboration through all that it does, seeking to work with graphic designers and typographers to craft high quality, versatile fonts for a global market. Over time, TypeType has introduced new designers to its team, including Vika Usmanova and Phillip Nurullin, both of whom worked on the design for one of TypeType's more recent

Harrison Serif Pro: A Gentlemanly Serif From TypeMates

TypeMates foundry was established by Jakob Runge and Nils Thomsen, both successful graphic designers and typographers in their own right. Operating from Munich and Hamburg, respectively, the pair feels strongly that typefaces are "a visual language with emotional values," rather than merely serving as "functional systems for reading." Through TypeMates, Jakob and Nils are dedicated to providing graphic designers with letter sets that suit a varied range of design applications and aesthetic

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