Johannes López Ayala  

@j_lopezayala

I design books and brands. Typography? Always. Art history? Yes, please. Jazz? You bet. Europe? Love it. ❦ Documenting of note in 2020.

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: srpanj 2016.

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  1. Jean-Baptiste Morizot’s “Token” (), now out for , explores some staples of display typefaces (filled-in counters, anyone?) but manages to make them coherent design features rather than mere ornamental afterthought. (35)

    Token typeface specimen, Phantom Foundry
    Token typeface specimen, Phantom Foundry
    Token typeface specimen, Phantom Foundry
    Token typeface specimen, Phantom Foundry
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  2. 🥇 Allrounder Grotesk by has entered ’s Hall of Fame as the best font of January 2020! It’s also steadily climbing up on MyFonts’s “Hot New Fonts” list. Get it for just ⅕ of the original price with coupon code JLA-80 →

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  3. Composition trouvé at the bakery. Have a great week!

    A photograph of various stacks of colourful crates forming an ad-hoc composition in front of a bakery.
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  4. Another delight for subscribers: provides you with “Megabase” (), sporting “strong horizontal stress inspired by the clunkiness of 19th-century gothics like Gothic Bold and the space-age funkiness of 1970’s designs”. (34)

    A page from the “Megabase” typeface Specimen by David Jonathan Ross, displaying the Font of the Month Club February 2020 Release in black, white, and orange.
    A page from the “Megabase” typeface Specimen by David Jonathan Ross, displaying the Font of the Month Club February 2020 Release in black, white, and orange.
    A page from the “Megabase” typeface Specimen by David Jonathan Ross, displaying the Font of the Month Club February 2020 Release in black, white, and orange.
    A page from the “Megabase” typeface Specimen by David Jonathan Ross, displaying the Font of the Month Club February 2020 Release in black, white, and orange.
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  5. Today’s is all about fonts found on windows. Here’s one of ours!

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  6. Check out the revised & redrawn version of ’s “Kari” (). It’s a curvy, dynamic, and fun script font family with both upright and slanted styles that evokes magic shows & circus settings. Its first iteration was released 15 years ago. (33)

    A page from the 2020 “Kari” typeface specimen by Neil Summerour / Positype.
    A page from the 2020 “Kari” typeface specimen by Neil Summerour / Positype.
    A page from the 2020 “Kari” typeface specimen by Neil Summerour / Positype.
    A page from the 2020 “Kari” typeface specimen by Neil Summerour / Positype.
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  7. René Bieder’s new typeface is “Novera” (), a(nother) sans “inspired by the work of Paul Renner, Eric Gill or Jakob Erbar, combining the geometric with the human”. What sets Novera apart are its 2 distinct incarnations, “Classic” & “Modern”. (32)

    A page from the Novera typeface specimen by René Bieder
    A page from the Novera typeface specimen by René Bieder
    A page from the Novera typeface specimen by René Bieder
    A page from the Novera typeface specimen by René Bieder
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  8. From the Q&A: in the summer & around Christmas are not the best times to release your fonts. “Use common sense” & schedule your releases to when people are working.

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  9. Summary slide. 1⃣ Think about your customer (half of them aren’t garphic designers) 2⃣ Nothing is as simple as it seems (talk to font users to get the bigger picture) 3⃣ Some things change (as the business world changes, so does font usage) 4⃣ Some things stay the same (QA!)

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  10. Type designers, rejoice: 66% “agree” that you are “cool”.

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  11. Survey question: “How well do you know a type designer?” 2%: “I didn’t even realize that there are people who make fonts until reading this question.”

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  12. Insightful data from the 2019 “Font Purchasing Habits Survey”, skillfully presented by at this very moment. 1st lesson: type designers, make it easy to license packages. Only a minority of customers purchase single styles. (📷: )

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  13. This is “Vestmar” () by Sindre Bremnes, the latest release: the flavour of Antique Olive with a hint of FF Balance. Yes, reverse contrast is the hypest hype in type right now—but Vestmar achieves a warmth that many others lack. (31)

    Mock CD or record sleeves of Keith Jarrett recordings to display different styles of Monokrom’s typeface, Vestmar.
    Mock CD or record sleeves of Keith Jarrett recordings to display different styles of Monokrom’s typeface, Vestmar.
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  14. The releases, “Typist Slab” () + “Typist Code” () by Nicolien van der Keur, cite “extensive research on the origin and development of typewriter typestyles”—a nod to history & its update to today’s tech. (30)

    A page from the “Typist Slab” typefacse specimen by Nicolien van der Keur.
    A page from the “Typist Slab” typefacse specimen by Nicolien van der Keur.
    A page from the “Typist Code” typefacse specimen by Nicolien van der Keur.
    A page from the “Typist Code” typefacse specimen by Nicolien van der Keur.
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  15. Granted—“Jim Rimmer aptly described his Dokument family as a sans serif in the vein of News Gothic that takes nothing from News Gothic” and “a bridge between Gothic and Humanist” (Canada Type). However, to me Dokument Pro always appeared mostly mechanical & rigid (in a good way).

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  16. This kind of vernacular aesthetics seems to gain ground steadily. A recent release by , “Halvar”, sports a similar visual character (and it’s variable, too). A distant relative & a tried and tested option is ’s “Dokument Pro” (2005) by Jim Rimmer.

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  17. For “Magmatic” (), the latest typeface—“loosely inspired by [industrial] Japanese Shōwa-era typefaces”— “reinforced … curves with additional non-orthogonal points” to allow for extreme weight & width variation. (29)

    A page from the Magmatic typeface specimen by OccupantFonts.
    Unfortunately, the bezier curves used to draw typefaces can only get so flat before they distort. In Magmatic, Highsmith figured out a [new] way. He reinforced its curves with additional non-orthogonal points. These extra points gave Highsmith and Shin the control they wanted. They used it to push the design to the extremes of width, as well as weight, while keeping the overall feel of the series steady.
    A page from the Magmatic typeface specimen by OccupantFonts.
    A page from the Magmatic typeface specimen by OccupantFonts.
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  18. Radim Peško’s “A Gothic” () & “AA Gothic” () have been released by RP Digital Type Foundry. “A Gothic” has early 20th century vibes—akin to “Venus” or “Monotype Grotesque”; “AA Gothic” adds inktraps—but for large sizes! (28)

    Radim Peško’s “A Gothic” typeface in a one-size, one-weight example sentence, black on white.
    Radim Peško’s “A Gothic” typeface in a one-size, one-weight example sentence, black on white.
    Radim Peško’s “AA Gothic” typeface in a one-size, one-weight example sentence, black on white.
    Radim Peško’s “AA Gothic” typeface in a one-size, one-weight example sentence, black on white.
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