A southern girl who loves a challenge, Emily Conners is a self-taught type-designer whose foundry has made a big splash in the type industry in a short amount of time.
It’s that time of the year again. Festive scripts reign, supported by a cast of restrained text fonts and sans-serifs. That, basically, sums up what the December newsletter is about: a joyous dance of swirls and swashes to end the year in beauty — and a parade of all-purpose typefaces to enter 2012 with a set of brand new tools. Charm meets usability in this last Rising Stars newsletter of the year. Enough said. A big hand for the month’s most successful new fonts.
Belated best wishes for 2013 from the MyFonts team! The time for our Fonts-of-the-Year list has finally come. Perhaps you wonder how it was put together. We’ll be brief. Basically, this is a list that you, as our users, have voted for — with your wallet. It is based on sales (revenue, not number of copies sold) of fonts that have first appeared on MyFonts since December 1st, 2011. It’s not simply the total sales volume across the year, because that would give an unfair advantage to those that have been on sale longest. So we’ve looked at average sales, correcting for what we might call the Introduction Sales Peak (ISP), kept the number of font families from the same foundry down to a maximum of two, and made sure popular genres are fairly represented. There you go: a type hit parade like no other. Thanks for helping us put it together.
He is not one of those type designers who produces a new font family every two or three months. Each of his typefaces has taken considerable time to mature, and it shows: they are thoughtful, original and well-wrought. Rather than responding to passing trends, his Emtype Foundry publishes fonts that are aimed at having a long shelf-life, and his Geogrotesque has been a bestseller ever since it came out five years ago. He is also prepared to pull his weight when it comes to nourishing international typographic culture — he’ll be co-organizer of next year’s ATypI conference, the world’s major annual get-together of type designers. Meet Eduardo Manso, an Argentinian who has made Barcelona his home.
The world of typography is continually changing, and MyFonts receives new fonts on a daily basis. Many of these are from small-scale foundries across the world — and these microfoundries continue to challenge the bigger players with great ideas, trend-conscious designs and smart solutions. They’re a bit like microbreweries in the world of beverages — inventing new tastes and improving old ones. But where small-scale breweries usually think globally but act locally, MyFonts allows its microfoundries to reach a global market and provide graphic designers continents away with nifty and influential type tools. Just have a look at this edition of our newsletter for successful new fonts to see what we’re about.
This month’s interviewee was an international free-font hero while still in his teens, before attending design college, dropping out, and becoming a well-known graphic designer and illustrator. Having made stunning illustrations and typographic posters for clients in the cultural and editorial sectors, he eventually specialized in energetic script and display fonts. His foundry Fenotype has been at MyFonts for a mere three years, but it feels as if it’s been longer. His fonts were featured in our Fonts-of-the-Year lists of 2011 and 2012, making him the most successful type designer from the Nordic countries currently on MyFonts. Meet Emil Bertell, our man in Turku, Finland.
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