“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied,” wrote a poet with the marvellous name Joseph Wood Krutch. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if August were that kind of month for all of us, type designers and users alike, laid-back yet productive? One way type designers reap their harvest, so to speak, is to rework and expand their earlier designs and — coincidence? providence? — you’ll see among this month’s Rising Stars several faces at last yielding their full potential.