With so many new typefaces coming out every week, it’s those that have a clear purpose or add something genuinely new to the typographic palette that capture attention and stand out from the crowd. Of course, fonts that simply offer fantastic value for money also stand a good chance of getting noticed. This month’s newsletter for successful new fonts offers a bit of each: the original, the useful, the affordable and the downright gorgeous. Enjoy!
Over the past year or so, we’ve seen a subtle shift in typographic tastes. While until recently the top 10 of our Hot New Fonts was dominated by witty, wild display fonts and scripts, these days there’s a more serious-looking bunch of fonts up there.
It’s either/or, this month, on MyFonts’ list of popular new fonts. The crop of successful new typefaces is neatly divided into playful, informal script faces, and cool, clean sans-serifs; not much else in between. Apparently, those are the quintessential typographic tools in this day and age, and who are we to complain? Our foundries offer a wealth of possibilities in both genres, and there is a lot of quality out there. In the elevated realm of typographically sophisticated text faces, there is more nuance, as our selection below shows. Happy browsing to all, and for those professionals who come to TypeCon later this month: we are looking forward to meeting you at our booth!
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.
The month is February, and we figure it’s going to be such a good month that twenty-eight days simply won’t do this year. So we’re in for an extra day to enjoy work, make an early start on the spring cleaning or, for some of you, celebrate that all-too-rare birthday. More importantly, we’re getting one more day to enjoy good typography and gorgeous fonts, monomaniacs that we are. This month’s crop offers you scripts from some of the best specialists around, unruly fonts from a couple of newcomers, and three eminently usable text fonts. Enjoy.
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