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HEX Franklin Variable
Weight:
400
800
Width:
65
100
A 21st-century tribute to the classic Franklin Gothic type family and its lighter-weight siblings, News Gothic and Lightline Gothic. The design draws specifically from ATF’s original fonts for letterpress printing, and not the later adaptations from other companies. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.
Full disclosure: This typeface was designed by the editor of this website.
Tags: body text, sans, gothic, multiplexed, multiplexed weight
Design:
Nick Sherman
Publisher:
HEX Projects
Characters:
Latin (limited)
Released:
2022-04-12
Licensing:
Paid/commercial
Info/fonts:
hex.xyz
Exposure VAR
Exposure:
-100
100
A serif typeface that emulates varying levels of photographic exposure or ink spread.
Max Miedinger, Charles Nix, Friedrich Althausen, Emilios Theofanous, Malou Verlomme, Jan Hendrik Weber, Monotype Studio
Publisher:
Monotype
Characters:
Latin
Released:
2021-07-13
Licensing:
Paid/commercial
Info/fonts:
myfonts.com
Ika VAR & Ika Compact VAR
Width:
3
5
Weight:
100
900
Ika Compact varies in width only and is intended for larger headlines, where the standard Ika styles vary in weight only and is intended more for smaller text typesetting.
Tags: body text, sans, gothic, monoline
Design:
Jörg Hemker
Publisher:
Fontwerk
Characters:
Latin, Greek, Cyrillic
Released:
2021-07-06
Licensing:
Paid/commercial, Trial
Info/fonts:
fontwerk.com
SKWAR VAR
Weight:
100
900
Width:
500
1000
A monospaced, all-caps, pixel typeface.
Tags: sans, all caps, monoline, monospaced, pixel, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided
Design:
Heydon
Publisher:
Heydon
Characters:
Latin (limited)
Released:
2021-06-24
Licensing:
Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts:
heydon.works/skwar
Pimpit
Pump:
100
700
A funky rounded sans where some sections of glyphs can be inflated to create an irregular rhythm.
SF Arabic is an extension of Apple’s San Francisco type series, used as the Arabic system font on Apple platforms. It is a “contemporary interpretation of the Naskh style with a rational and flexible design”.
Tags: body text, sans, monoline, optical sizes
Design:
Apple
Publisher:
Apple
Characters:
Arabic
Released:
2021-06-08
Licensing:
Bundled
Info/fonts:
developer.apple.com
Muoto VAR
Weight:
100
900
A sans typeface designed with/for Base Design.
Tags: body text, sans, geometric, neo-grotesque, vertex spread
Design:
Matthieu Cortat, Anthony Franklin, Sander Vermeulen
Publisher:
205TF
Characters:
Latin
Released:
2021-06-02
Licensing:
Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts:
205.tf
Fern Variable
Weight:
400
800
Optical SIze:
8
12
A chunky Venetian-style serif typeface intended for on-screen reading.
Tags: body text, serif, oldstyle, optical sizes, wedge serif
Design:
David Jonathan Ross
Publisher:
DJR, Font of the Month Club
Characters:
Latin, Vietnamese
Released:
2021-06-01
Licensing:
Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts:
djr.com
West VAR
Weight:
100
900
Italic:
0
1
A geometric sans.
Tags: sans, geometric, monoline, variable posture
Design:
Daniel Perraudin
Publisher:
Fontwerk
Characters:
Latin
Released:
2021-05-31
Licensing:
Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts:
fontwerk.com
Irregardless Variable
Weight:
0
1000
Slant:
0
9
A playful condensed sans with alternate glyphs for things like wide rounds.
A geometric take on connected monoline script styles as seen on 20th-century cars and appliances, with the ability to stretch inter-letter connections and add snap-on under- and overline extenders.
A narrow sans with highlight effects, inspired by eastern European socialist design from the middle of the 20th century. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.
The Immortel family of serif typefaces comprises four variants (Infra, Colera, Vena, and Acedia), all designed with multiplexed set widths to be interchangeable without causing text to reflow. The Infra and Vena variants – inspired by Robert Granjon and Jacques-François Rosart, respectively – are intended for use in running body text. They include “Median” italics for longer blocks of text, as well as more exaggerated italics for stronger emphasis. They both also offer a variable grade axis for slight weight adjustments, to accommodate different typographic environments and user preferences.
Tags: body text, serif, ball terminals, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, oldstyle
Design:
Clément Le Tulle-Neyret
Publisher:
205TF
Characters:
Latin
Released:
2021-04-14
Licensing:
Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts:
205.tf
Loos Variable
Weight:
0
1000
Width:
0
1000
An industrial sans covering a broad stylistic range, with ink trap features that create intentional dark spots in the lighter weights.
A sharp sans inspired by square-edged tools like a flat brush.
Tags: body text, sans, flat brush, gothic, pinched joints, sharp
Design:
Eric Olson
Publisher:
Process Type Foundry
Characters:
Latin
Released:
2021-03-30
Licensing:
Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts:
processtypefoundry.com
Heliuum VAR
Weight:
200
400
A typographic system built into a single font, containing 7 sets of capitals with different heights and vertical positions for mixing and matching. Glyph variants are accessible via OpenType with stylistic sets or by repeating characters while discretionary ligatures are enabled, with uppercase and lowercase changing height and position, respectively.
A geometric sans that takes on a more sci-fi feeling in its wider variants. Includes an axis to only widen some glyphs, resulting in an irregular mixed-width style.
Veronika Burian, José Scaglione, Azza Alameddine, Pooja Saxena
Publisher:
TypeTogether
Characters:
Latin
Released:
2021-01-26
Licensing:
Paid/commercial
Info/fonts:
type-together.com
Golos Text VF & Golos UI VF
Weight:
400
700
A pair of related sans typefaces commissioned by Smena and AIC Media for official state and social service websites in Russia. Golos Text is designed for continuous reading, whereas Golos UI – with slightly narrower proportions and multiplexed weights – is intended more for user interface elements.
The Scientific and Technical Information eXchange (STIX) fonts are made to serve the scientific and engineering communities as fonts with the character support and technical functionality for use in related publications. The design is intended to be compatible with Times.
Tags: body text, serif
Design:
Ross Mills, John Hudson, Tiro Typeworks, Paul Hanslow