Franciszek Otto, a designer and teacher in Poland, recently released Waza™, a refreshing copperplate script. A formal handwriting style from England, copperplate script fonts occasionally appear a bit stuffy and old fashioned. As a nice contrast, Waza kicks up the volume with very elaborate, almost melodramatic swash capitals; ascenders and descenders in Waza’s lowercase letters also curve a bit more than normal. Franciszek Otto also added a unique rhythm to his lowercase: individual letters seem to undulate, slightly swaying up and down.
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Quench™ is a fun and unique typeface from designer Hannes von Döhren. It is unmistakably characterized by its strong contrast of inside and outside forms. The counters are nearly straight and have many right angles. Conversely, the outside curves are smooth and rounded making them soft and almost bubbly.
The italics still retain some of the rectangular shapes, but look more like they were made with a brush. Especially in the bold weights the curves are full and juicy.
Used together or individually, the four weights and styles can be used for a wide variety of projects including magazines, advertising, logos, and branding.
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Eurostile® Candy is a fun spinoff from Akira Kobayashi’s Eurostile® Next family. As the name implies, it is based on Eurostile but with many striking new features. Most obviously, the corners and joints have been rounded off to give it a more friendly and softer feel. On top of those changes, the main skeleton of many characters have been modified. Any extra strokes have been removed – such as in the a, s, or t – and joints have been simplified to create even more square shapes – like in the n and r. With these contemporary and futuristic-styled alterations, Eurostile Candy is a cool new design great for many display projects.
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Akira Kobayashi modified his Eurostile® Next design into a fun unicase version. Ascenders and descenders have been traded in for alternates of letters that all share the same height. The effect is similar to using all caps, although this is quite a bit more quirky. For example, letters like the lowercase a and e are now the same height as their capital versions and the lowercase y has been raised to fit between the baseline and top height. Odd relationships such as these give Eurostile Unicase a fresh and funky feeling. Try using it for headlines and titles, then use Eurostile Next for the body text!
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Giacometti™ Letter is a fun design by Sine Bergmann and Leonore Poth. It has a rough, handwritten-looking style that is perfect for informal communications. The letters are light and narrow similar to her thin figures in the Pi font “ Giacometti.” When combining Giacometti Letter with other fonts, try using “ Jump™” – another of Sine’s designs – which contrasts well since is it wider and bolder.
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Jump™ is a lighthearted, handwritten script. Its quick and informal style is perfect for short notes and messages to convey charisma. The letters ‘jump’ up and down on the baseline giving words and sentences a lively impression.
Try out Jump for invitations, cards, and announcements when you are aiming for the hand-made effect.
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JP2™ has some special roots being inspired by the actual handwriting of Pope John Paul II. Franciszek Otto took this source material and transformed it into a high quality font. The result is a rough, but intelligent, design with letters that slightly bounce along the baseline to mimic typical writing. Their short x-height, long extenders, and unique capital letters make this a very beautiful and distinctive typeface. Try it out for greetings, invitations, or posters!
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Frutiger Serif® is a re-envisioning of Meridien, a typeface first released in Paris during the 1950s. Meridien has always been Adrian Frutiger’s favorite typeface, and it was the most successful of his serif designs. Working closely with Adrian Frutiger, Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi expanded the original metal type version of Meridien into a new digital family of 20 variants. Renamed Frutiger Serif, this up-to-date Meridien now has weights, widths, and styles that correspond with those of Frutiger® Next (Frutiger Serif even has Condensed Italic fonts, which Frutiger Next does not). This allows designers to finally mix Frutiger Next with a serif typeface whose weights and metrics are optimized for the task.
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The Eurostile® typeface exemplifies classic European design. Seen to be just as Italian as fashionable furniture, minimally crafted espresso cups, and Vespa scooters, Eurostile has finally received the optimization that proper digital typesetting requires. While previous digitizations inadvertently added unintentional distortions to the original design, Linotype’s Akira Kobayashi has succeeded in bringing Aldo Novarese’s vision into the 21st century. Ready for immediate use, Eurostile Next is perfect for forward-looking display applications, including everything from small logos and trendy headlines to billboard-sized advertising slogans.
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