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  6. Rekusen by Product Type, $15.00
    Rekusen is a modern and bold sans-serif display font that stands out with its cleanness. Perfect for branding, headlines, and editorial design, this font is sure to make a statement. The unique combination of thick and thin strokes creates a dynamic and eye-catching appearance that draws attention to your message. In addition to its stylish design, Rekusen also features a wide range of alternate characters and ligatures that allow for creative customization and increased versatility. With alternates and ligatures, this font provides endless possibilities for unique and impactful designs. And with support for multiple languages, it can be used across a variety of projects with ease. Whether you’re designing a logo, creating a poster, or crafting a website, Rekusen is a powerful tool that will help you achieve your design goals with style and sophistication. Its modern, clean, and versatile design makes it a perfect fit for any project that needs a touch of boldness and professionalism. What’s Included : - All glyphs Iso Latin 1 - We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. - PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. - Fonts include Multilingual support
  7. Burdigala Semi Serif by Asgeir Pedersen, $19.99
    Burdigala is a clean-cut, modern yet classic typeface inspired by Didones and Aicher’s Rotis family. The Semi Serif is ideal for larger amounts of (printed) texts in brochures, magazines and books. It is slighty narrow in order to conserve space, but spacious enough to faciliate reading and overall clarity. The expanded versions of the semi serif, being wider and more open, works equally well in media intended both for print and on-screen reading, e.g. in Pdf-documents etc. Burdigala is the ancient Roman name of the city of Bordeaux France.
  8. DT Augustina Slab by Deveze Type, $29.00
    DT Augustina Slab is an original Clarendon's style slab serif font family of 98 styles including 7 weights, 7 widths plus Italics. There is no such a big choice of Clarendons with a wide range of styles on a market. Super wide range family will satisfy almost any request. Ultra Lights and Light styles will add elegance and lightness to your headlines, especially with using Italic swashes. Regulars, Mediums and Semi Bold will make your text blocks readable and stylish. Combine with Italics and Small Caps for sub-headers and highlights to get an incredible result. And finally Bold and Extra Bold for massive and heavy text headers. Strong, stable and reliable. The whole family has been working well in almost any type of a project: Websites, Apps, E-Books, Books, Magazines, TV broadcasting, Packaging. The family has an Open Type Features like a Ligatures, Italic Swashes, Small Capitals, Case Sensitive Forms, Tabular Figures, Old Style Figures, Tabular Old Style Figures, Circled Figures, Black Circled Figures, Fractions, Superscripts, Subscripts, Stylistic Sets, Localisation forms for Moldavian / Romanian, Catalonian and Turkish.
  9. OCR A Tribute by Linotype, $57.99
    OCR-A was originally designed in 1968 as a machine-readable alphabet. Its functionality was its most important element, instead of its design. Over the following decades, the typeface has become popular in the design world nevertheless. But typographically pleasing results are often hard to come by, due to the original design’s “non-design design”, as well as its undeveloped character set. In 2006, Miriam Röttgers revised and extended OCR-A, creating OCR A Tribute. OCR A Tribute is a typeface family comprising of two versions: one in which the glyphs have been proportionally-spaced, and another that is monospaced. In the monospaced version, all glyphs have the same width, like the letters in the original OCR-A font do. Both versions of OCR A Tribute contain complete character sets and expert glyphs, as well as lining and old style figures. Now you can rest easy, and finally use this classic design for display purposes and headlines!
  10. Peppo by Paweł Burgiel, $38.00
    Peppo is an informal, simple, readable and easy-on-the-eyes handwritten typeface inspired by hand-written script. Each font providing an organic and spontaneous hand lettering feel. Combination of 12 styles (3 widths and 4 weights) and wide range of glyphs guarantee high freedom and flexibility of typographic work. Peppo typeface includes extended Latin characters with capitals, small letters and small capitals, lining and old style figures, superscripts, scientific inferiors, currency symbols and arrows. You can use this font to create childrenís publications, posters, CD labels, T-shirts, coffee mugs, and banners. Important technical notice: Combining diacritical marks (U+0300, U+0301, U+0303, U+0309, U+0323) are only 'compatibility characters' for codepage 'MS Windows 1258 Vietnamese'. Combining diacritical marks (U+0312, U+0315, U+0326) are only 'compatibility characters' for Czech, Latvian, Romanian and Slovak language. OpenType features 'Mark to Base' and 'Mark to Mark' is not supported. Kerning is prepared as single ('flat') table for maximum possible compatibility with older software.
  11. Donnerstag by insigne, $22.00
    Donnerstag is an extended slab serif and a new companion to insigne's Montag, Dienstag and Mittwoch typefaces. Donnerstag conveys power and personality with its strong slab letterforms and ball terminals. Donnerstag's seven different weights give it a great deal of versatility, from its beefy and masculine black weight to the delicate and feminine hairline. Because of Donnerstag's width, this typeface is best used for logotypes, headlines or short blocks of text. Donnerstag includes many useful OpenType features, including a set of upright italic swash alternates, ligatures, small caps, fractions and old style figures, alternates for the ball terminals and simplified characters for titling. OpenType-capable applications such as the Adobe suite or Quark can take full advantage of automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of latin based languages. For complementary companions, be sure to check out the rest of the typeface super family, also available from insigne.
  12. Ravelion by Typehand Studio, $18.00
    Ravelion is a sans serif all caps display font. Available in reguler and line style. Ravelion is made for futuristic font display. Ravelion is a funky, future-forward typeface set up perfectly any sci-fi space thriller. If you're a fan of futuristic fonts, this one is for you! Ideal for contemporary, sci-fi and space designs, you can also apply this on adventure, branding, or music themes. Try different styles and experiment with kerning for best results.
  13. Servus Slab by Dada Studio, $29.00
    This family is very special to me. I started working on it right after my first son was born. I decided to name the typeface "Servus" which means "Hello" in my country. The whole idea of the family symbolizes a child’s growth. It starts with Thin and Narrow weights - just like a newborn baby - then it slowly grows to Black and Wide. As You can guess, my son is quite chubby now! And I can assure You that I put all my love into details. Servus consists of 9 weights which gives us 18 fonts with matching italics. Lights and Bolds, due to their strong personality, are perfect for display uses. At the same time, Regulars create a harmonious structure that provides good legibility in long texts. Servus covers all latin languages. It contains a wide set of numerals, small capitals, fractions, ligatures and other OpenType goodies.
  14. Typewriter 1950 Tech Mono by TypoGraphicDesign, $29.00
    The typeface Typewriter 1950 Tech Mono is designed for the Typo Graphic Design font foundry in 2017 by Manuel Viergutz. A display slab serif type for headlines. Based on an old typewriter machine from 1950. Plus state-of-the-art OpenType-features like contextual alternates (calt), decorative ligatures e. g. type the word “LOVE” for ❤ and the word “SMILE” for ☺ and Versal Eszett (German Capital Sharp S). For use in magazines, posters, headlines and advertisement, plus as webfont for decorative headlines. Character Set: Latin Extended (Adobe Latin 3). 1490 glyphs with 5× A–Z, 5× a–z, 5× 0–9 and 290+ extra icons like arrows, dingbats, symbols, geomatric shapes, catchwords and many alternative letters. Have fun with this font & use the DEMO-FONT (with reduced glyph-set) FOR FREE! How To Use – OpenType-Features ■ In Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign, font feature controls are within the Character panel sub-menu → OpenType → Discretionary Ligatures … Checked features are applied/on. Unchecked features are off. ■ In Adobe Illustrator, font feature controls are within the OpenType panel. Icons at the bottom of the panel are button controls. Darker ‘pressed’ buttons are applied/on. ■ Additionally in Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator, alternate glyphs can manually be inserted into a text frame by using the glyphs panel. The panel can be opened by selecting Window from the menu bar → Type → Glyphs. Or use sign-overview of your operating system. ■ For a overview of OpenType-Feature compatibility for common applications, follow the myfonts-help http://www.myfonts.com/help/#looks-different ■ Font Name: Typewriter 1950 Tech Mono ■ Font Weights: Regu­lar + Negative + Black + Mono + Icons + DEMO (with redu­ced glyph-set) ■ Font Cate­gory: Slab Serif Dis­play for Head­line Size ■ Font For­mat:.otf (Open­Type Font for Mac + Win) + .ttf (True­Type Font) ■ Glyph Set: 1490 glyphs ■ Lan­guage Sup­port: 28+ for Latin Exten­ded (Adobe Latin 3). Afri­kaans, Alba­nian, Cata­lan, Croa­tian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esto­nian, Fin­nish, French, Ger­man, Hun­ga­rian, Ice­lan­dic, Ita­lian, Lat­vian, Lithua­nian, Mal­tese, Nor­we­gian, Polish, Por­tu­gese, Roma­nian, Slovak, Slove­nian, Spa­nisch, Swe­dish, Tur­kish, Zulu ■ Spe­cials: 290+ deco­ra­tive extras like icons for arrows, ding­bats, emo­jis, sym­bols, geo­me­tric shapes, catch­words + Ger­man Capi­tal Eszett. ■ Open Type Fea­tures: Kerning (kern), Sty­listic Set 1 (ss01) … Sty­listic Set 6 (ss06), Ornaments (ornm), Titling (titl), Loca­li­zed Forms (locl), Sub­script (subs) Super­script (sups), Ordi­nals (ordn), Old­style Figu­res (onum), Lining Figu­res (lnum), Frac­tions (frac), Deno­mi­na­tors (dnom), Nume­ra­tors (numr), Stan­dard Liga­tures (liga), Con­text­ual Alter­na­tes (calt) e. g. Sty­listic Set-Loop and Deco­ra­tive Liga­tures (dlig) e. g. type the word “LOVE” for ❤ or “SMILE” for ☺ ■ Design Date: 2017–2018 ■ Type Desi­gner: Manuel Vier­gutz
  15. Brahma Rounded by Tall Chai, $15.00
    Brahma Rounded is a modern geometric rounded sans-serif font family with weights ranging from Thin (100) to Black (900). It is a sibling of the Brahma font family. Features: Available in 9 weights Over 550 glyphs supporting extended Latin Ideal for display texts: Titles, Logos and Headlines etc. Perfect for branding and rebranding Supports OpenTypes features like Ligatures and Stylistic Alternates Tabular Numerals included Symbols for 10 major currencies including Bitcoin provided in all weights Description: The name comes from Brahmā who is known as the god of creation. And manifesting the same spirit, the Brahma font family focuses on modern creativity. With its smooth and polished curves, Brahma Rounded provides friendly, casual vibes to all its characters. Every character effortlessly integrates with current design standards and interfaces. The fonts are professional yet have a hint of informal personality in them. This makes Brahma Rounded perfect for use in modern apps and websites. Brahma Rounded is built for the influencing, designing and marketing squads. It has a trendy geometric characteristic which is ideal for any branding and rebranding. Brahma has lot of OpenType features (like ligatures and tabular numerals) and the Extended Latin character set supports over a hundred languages. Start Creating!
  16. FS Meridian Variable by Fontsmith, $199.99
    Timeless imperfection FS Meridian is a rhythmic geometric grotesque which takes inspiration from the precise yet imperfect nature of time. There are 24 hours in a day. 60 minutes in an hour. 60 seconds in a minute. Well, almost. The Earth’s orbit isn’t a perfect circle – and nor is the Earth itself. Each day varies a few dozen seconds and up to 16 minutes each year. Look closer and time is more flexible than we think. Geometry with a twist From a geometric base, FS Meridian’s rounded forms veer and extend, creating unexpected humanistic shapes – while the straight terminals remain reliably rigid. This combination of forms gives this grotesque sans serif a pleasingly dynamic rhythm, every time it’s read. Added quirks The unconventional character of rigid terminals and ink traps are balanced with emphasized extended forms to develop visual differentiation. Designed by Kristina Jandová, the complete family has been carefully crafted with distinguishing marks. Take a look at the cap ‘Q’ which comes with three alternative options. Deliciously loopy FS Meridian has a wide geometric, mono-liner appearance with humanistic elements. Quirky individual touches like the loopy expressive pound sign help the typeface to stand out. Available in five weights, FS Meridian is both timeless and timely, a distinctive font for all screens and surfaces.
  17. FS Meridian by Fontsmith, $80.00
    Timeless imperfection FS Meridian is a rhythmic geometric grotesque which takes inspiration from the precise yet imperfect nature of time. There are 24 hours in a day. 60 minutes in an hour. 60 seconds in a minute. Well, almost. The Earth’s orbit isn’t a perfect circle – and nor is the Earth itself. Each day varies a few dozen seconds and up to 16 minutes each year. Look closer and time is more flexible than we think. Geometry with a twist From a geometric base, FS Meridian’s rounded forms veer and extend, creating unexpected humanistic shapes – while the straight terminals remain reliably rigid. This combination of forms gives this grotesque sans serif a pleasingly dynamic rhythm, every time it’s read. Added quirks The unconventional character of rigid terminals and ink traps are balanced with emphasized extended forms to develop visual differentiation. Designed by Kristina Jandová, the complete family has been carefully crafted with distinguishing marks. Take a look at the cap ‘Q’ which comes with three alternative options. Deliciously loopy FS Meridian has a wide geometric, mono-liner appearance with humanistic elements. Quirky individual touches like the loopy expressive pound sign help the typeface to stand out. Available in five weights, FS Meridian is both timeless and timely, a distinctive font for all screens and surfaces.
  18. Delaware Pro AOE by Astigmatic, $24.95
    Constructivist flavor typography goes pro enters the digital era with Delaware Pro AOE. Delaware Pro AOE is the revival and elaboration of a limited lettering specimen from a series of old loose book pages. What began as just Capitals & Lowercase was expanded to a rich pro glyphset including numerals, punctuation, small caps, small caps scaled figures, unlimited fractionals, superiors & inferiors, ordinals, tabular & proportional figures, and an expanded language glyph set. From titling to nightclub posters, fashion spreads to stencil play, the Constructivist Era is built up and out, waiting for you to put it to use.
  19. Haenel Fraktur by RMU, $25.00
    A bold but nevertheless pleasant black-letter font which was released for the first time about 1840 by the Haenel'sche Printshop and Letterfoundery in Berlin. Haenel Fraktur contains a bunch of useful ligatures, and by typing 'N', 'o' and period you get an old style number sign by activating the Ordinals feature.
  20. Contenu EBook by Hackberry Font Foundry, $19.95
    Because ebooks will not normally accept .otf fonts, and they don't support Opentype features, this font family was designed to be used for the ebook conversions of print books. It uses old style figures. The italics are slanted a bit more. And Heavy is a little bolder than the bold in Contenu Book.
  21. Bishops Stinger by Folding Type, $9.00
    Ouch! Bishops Stinger is a unique isometric display typeface, perfect for bold headlines and logotypes. The blunt serifs and terminals that appear on select letters help ground the faced-paced look. When used for a block of text at smaller sizes the style resembles old script writing but with a retro futuristic twist.
  22. Natural Born Designer by Fonts of Chaos, $10.00
    True bold font, only available in uppercase but with different styles. This font of 106 characters is really easy to use in your design and takes his inspiration from the old school post graffiti. The name comes from the movie "Natural Born Killers" by Oliver Stone. UPPERCASE 
lowercase 
Numerals 
Punctuation 106 characters
  23. Cyntho Slab Pro by Mint Type, $-
    Cyntho Slab Pro is the slab serif companion to Cyntho Pro. It’s a modern geometric slab serif with extensive language support including Cyrillic and Greek scripts, rich with OpenType features, perfect for magazines, posters, advertising, corporate identity, and much more. It offers optional upright and real italic forms, wrapped in OpenType ‘stylistic alternates’ features, or stylistic set #02, where sets can be applied separately. Small caps are included as well.
  24. HardTimes Roman by Wiescher Design, $39.50
    HardTimes has been hard work, designing a handmade typeface must always have the right balance between rough and smooth, specially with this Times-like face. It has the big European glyph-set, so that it can be used all over the continent I come from. I gave this font extensive kerning. Times are too hard for boring typefaces, so try this one for a change. -Your hardworking type designer, Gert Wiescher
  25. Roller Hesoon by TypeClassHeroes, $16.00
    Retro and refined you can explore and combine creating rhythm for comfortable reading. Roller Hesoon supports more than 100 Latin-based languages and has extensive Cyrillic and Greek support for languages like Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and many more. Feature Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Symbol International Glyphs Multilingual support Alternative Ligature Cyrillic & Greek Feel free to drop us a message any time and follow my shop for upcoming updates. Hope you enjoy it.
  26. Geson Bamer by TypeClassHeroes, $14.00
    Geson Baker is a retro font come with 80's retro style serif. Retro and refined you can explore and combine creating rhythm for comfortable reading. This font supports more than 100 Latin-based languages and has extensive Cyrillic and Greek support for languages like Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and many more. Feature Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Symbol International Glyphs (Cyrillic & Greek) Multilingual support Alternative Ligature Hope you enjoy it.
  27. Yorkten Slab by insigne, $-
    The Yorkten family of fonts is back with another satisfying addition to its clean style. The rhythmic, new Yorkten Slab expands Yorkten’s basic, contemporary form of geometric and simple lines and adds a level of self-confidence and elegance to your work. Slab's basic structure is compact. It’s more condensed than most slabs, so you can save space yet still have clear, consistent readability. The added serifs create a fresh text color, too, that syncs well with the new font’s inherited features. Like its predecessor, Yorkten Slab offers its natural, simple structure with more than fifty fonts in the family and three different widths - extended, normal or condensed. Each group has eight weights from a lean thin to tough looking black, giving Yorkten Slab plenty of bragging rights among its peers. And like Yorkten, too, Yorkten Slab’s greatest value is the ability of its members to work easily and well together and with a variety of other fonts. Yorkten Slab ensures that you have the necessary tools for any challenge. In combination with its superior functionality and excellent readability, this versatile font can be effectively used for many print and screen operations: e-books, applications, headlines, banners, posters and websites to name a few options. Don’t wait any longer. Start tapping the possibilities that Yorkten Slab offers your work.
  28. Beady Ready by Putracetol, $28.00
    Beady Ready - Bold Display Font Beady Ready is a bold display font featuring a modern style, perfect for creating sporty modern-inspired designs. This font is the perfect choice for designers looking to add a bold and unique touch to their projects. Created with attention to detail, Beady Ready is a versatile font that can be used for a variety of purposes, such as branding, packaging, advertising, and more. When using Beady Ready, the possibilities are endless. This font works well for designs that need bold and eye-catching titles or headings. It can be used in posters, flyers, product packaging and other printed materials that require a strong visual impact. Additionally, Beady Ready can be used in digital designs such as social media graphics, web banners and more. Beady Ready comes packed with features that make it an excellent choice for designers. This includes uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as alternatives and ligatures via the OpenType feature. This feature makes it easy to add a unique touch to your designs by swapping out the letters for different variations. Fonts also include numbers, punctuation, and symbols, making them easy to use in a variety of projects. Finally, Beady Ready has multilingual support, allowing you to use it for projects in multiple languages. If you're looking for a font that is unique, bold, and full of character, Beady Ready is the right choice. This font is perfect for designers looking to add a touch of modern sport to their projects. In short, Beady Ready is a bold display font with a modern style that's perfect for creating sporty-inspired designs. It comes with a variety of features, including alternatives and binders via the OpenType feature, making it easy to add a unique touch to your designs. This font also includes multilingual support, making it an excellent choice for projects in multiple languages. With the Beady Ready font, you can create eye-catching designs that stand out from the crowd.
  29. Moldr Thai by Deltatype, $59.00
    Moldr Thai, a sans-serif with modular grid structure with Thai script, inspired from handmade letter to industrial machine mold, Moldr come with 9 weights in complete family, Support many language with standard Adobe Lain 4 glyphs, world-ready and mark2mark support, especially Thai script.
  30. Neugro Typeface by Godbless Studio, $25.00
    Inspired by something experimental and modern but still has a strong and elegant characteristic. Neugro Typeface is a experimental sans serif font well-suited for display use; its orthogonal terminals and short ascenders and descenders make it ideal for block of texts. By mixing different weights, you can have a wide range of design options—short text, isolated words, logos, titles, branding design, posters, etc. The Neugro family comes in 18 weights—from a thin and condensed thin to an expanded and Black. Its character set supports over 200 different languages. Equipped with various additional unique and modern alternative characters, it gives you a very strong composition of identity and personality. This font really deserves to be on your desktop*
  31. Vogatron by Konstantine Studio, $9.00
    Get yourself ready to jump on into the future-verse realm with the VOGATRON. A solid-strong futuristic sans-serif display fonts with a wide range of possibilities in usage. We're not joking when we say wide. The variety of styles that comes in 15 weights, from Condensed to Expanded, will make you ask no more for another choice. Fortunately, we're living in the best moment in this era of Retro-Futurism trends, when the retro and futuristic vibes are running side-by-side in terms of visual implementation nowadays. Which makes VOGATRON are easier to play with on every occasion. Perfectly fit for futuristic branding, retro gaming vibes, posters, esport logo, visual branding, social media content, streaming overlay design, animation project, you name it.
  32. Emedan by Cercurius, $19.95
    An all-capitals reversed sans-serif font, designed for easy creation of signs, labels and banners. Various endpieces are included. Upright and italic can be combined.
  33. Levarolls by Jehansyah, $9.00
    this is a cool sans serif font with a casual and complete with unique icons that you can make a logo or decoration on your design
  34. Knappast by Cercurius, $19.95
    Sans-serif reversed capitals in circles, resembling typewriter keys. The font can be used for logos, signs and labels, and for markings on maps and charts.
  35. Cherritt by Greater Albion Typefounders, $9.95
    We think of Cherritt as a 'bullnosed' serif face, because of its rounded off serifs. What that phrase may not convey is the friendly, approachable nature of this large family of faces. The design was originally inspired by traditional draftsmens' hand-drawn serif lettering, but has been given a precise geometric flavor that suits it for work owing its inspiration to any era, from Victorian times through to the purely modern. They are ideal for headings and poster work, but also for setting small volumes of text. Four weights are included in the family, as well as wide, expanded and condensed forms, true small capitals and openface forms. All family members embody extensive OpenType features.
  36. Eagle Lake Pro by Stiggy & Sands, $29.00
    A Practical Calligraphic Hand. Eagle Lake Pro is based on the calligraphic lettering style known based on the practical Running Book Hand. It has shorter capitals that create a visually taller x-height lending to high legibility and fluidity. Classic, clean, and casual, Eagle Lake Pro fits a lot of design uses. The SmallCaps and extensive figure sets only work to further expand the usefulness of the typeface across a wider breadth of applications. See the 5th graphic for a comprehensive character map preview. Opentype features include: - SmallCaps. - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - Tabular, Proportional, and Oldstyle figure sets (along with SmallCaps versions of the figures). - Stylistic Alternates for Caps to SmallCaps conversion.
  37. Myna by Milatype, $15.00
    Myna is a modern geometric sans font family, primarily designed to be a lightweight web font. But is also suitable for any other purpose, such as brand design or editorial design, or any other use case that require clean and elegant geometric sans font. It contains 54 styles, divided into Condensed, Regular and Expanded weight, with 18 styles in each (9 upright, and 9 italic styles), ranging from Thin to Black styles, and are all available in one variable font. All styles are manually TrueType hinted to produce sharp glyph outlines for easier reading at small text sizes. And all contain OpenType features: Fractions, Kerning, Ordinals, Scientific Inferiors, Subscript, Superscript.
  38. Sequel 100 Wide by OGJ Type Design, $35.00
    Sequel 100 Wide is a static sans-serif or neogrotesque with generous horizontal proportions. A variant of the original Sequel Sans, it considerably expands the stylistic scope of the Sequel superfamily. In addition to its wider letterforms, it has got a larger x-height, slightly shifting the historical flavor from the 1950s to the 1960s. Yet, at its core, it’s as clean and functional as the main font family, with perfectly horizontal stroke endings and vertical terminals. Six weights from 45 (Regular) to 95 (Black), matching italics, and limitless possible interpolations by means of two Variable Fonts offer a rich typographic palette for any situation.
  39. Metro Office by Linotype, $50.99
    The Metro Office family is designed after the model of the original sans serif family – Metro No.1 – produced by W.A. Dwiggins and Mergenthaler Linotype’s design studio during the late 1920s and 1930s. A distinctly new interpretation of the sans serif idea, Metro was a thoroughly “American” sans serif when it was released. However, over the ensuing decades, it became a favorite the world over. Moreover, it is one of the first “humanist” sans serif typefaces designed. While redesigning Metro in 2006, Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi drew from his own knowledge of humanistic letterforms. The result is a redefined Metro; a typeface that is finally ready for heavy text setting. The original Linotype Metro No.1 never had italic variants. Kobayashi has created oblique variants, extending its use in document setting. A double-storey a and g, as well as a wider w were features of Dwiggins’ original Metro design that were filtered out by Mergenthaler Linotype in the 1930s. Kobayashi remedied this historical slight, retooling Dwiggins’ original forms and optimizing their legibility. Kobayashi has additionally retooled some of Metro’s more troublesome letters, which has black elements that became too dense. By opening up the troublesome joins (like that on the Q), Kobayashi has given his new Metro a more even color in text, improving its legibility while retaining its original spirit.
  40. Maiandra by Galapagos, $39.00
    The Maiandra family of typefaces were inspired by an early example of Oswald Cooper's hand-lettering, as seen in an advertisement for a book on home furnishing, circa 1909. Although many of Oz Cooper's letterform designs were cast in metal type, this particular one was not. Cooper's design itself was inspired by examples of letterforms he had admired in his study of Greek epigraphy (inscriptions). Cooper combined those ancient forms with the flair characteristic of design styles of his time. The result was an attractive design possessing subtle, purposeful irregularities, or "meanders" in his skilled brushwork. The Cooper design exhibits a unique warmth and harmony in text, while presenting a compelling rhythm, color and texture on the page. "Realizing the presence of this uniform warmth and readability," notes Dennis, "I decided to expand the design into a family of three weights with companion italics." The weights for the Maiandra family were selected for their versatility in usage over a broad range of output device resolutions. Indeed, "the consideration of eventual display resolutions, be they for screen or printer, provided the greatest challenge in the design of this typeface family," explains Dennis. Creating shapes that conform to the rigors of digital letterforms and modern rendering environments, without losing the unique characteristics of Oz Cooper's original design, is what Dennis has accomplished with his tribute to this great designer of the past. Maiandra, whose name derives from the Greek 'maiandros', meaning 'meander,' is intended for extended text use, as well as for informal subject matter, such as business correspondence, brochures and broadsides. "An example of a good use for Maiandra," notes Dennis, "is in printed matter relating to the turn-of-the-century art period known as the Arts and Crafts Movement. It can stand alone or be used with designs that complement its shape and color."
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