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ScreenFonts: February 2018
Murder and mayhem, and some interpersonal tension: this episode looks at posters for The Strange Ones, Proud Mary, The Commuter, Small Town Crime, Inside, Dim the Fluorescents, The Neighbor, and A Ciambra.
Sir David Attenborough narrates New Atten and New Atten Round
Two new type families from Miles Newlyn channel the BBC broadcaster’s plummy tones.
Magín Díaz and Father John Misty share a Grammy for Best Recording Package
Art director and musician Yves Peters casts an eye over the nominees and winners in the design categories at the Recording Academy’s sixtieth annual awards.
Monokrom calls in with Telefon
A gift from his daughter led Sindre Bremnes to turn the interwar lettering on Norway’s phone booths into a retro-toned geometric sans family with a decidedly modern voice.
ScreenFonts: January 2018 | The Leftovers
These posters didn’t make the cut, but are still noteworthy for their design and/or typography.
Ivy crops up at Type Network
Named after the hedera symbol, or what Robert Bringhurst calls a “horticultural dingbat,” The Ivy Foundry offers a cool quartet of type designs from Denmark.
DJR’s Fit flips the script
Type sorcerer Oded Ezer extends the mighty morphing display family to support the Hebrew script.
TYPETR delivers Upgrade, a modern humanist sans built for the future
After releasing a supersized modular bitmap family in 2017, Petr van Blokland raises the bar for sans faces with his first “traditional” type release in nearly two decades.
ScreenFonts: January 2018
Defying legibility conventions. Shattering images. Subverting any sense of scale. Turning the world upside down. This episode looks at posters for The New Radical, The Shape of Water, Foxtrot, Kaleidoscope, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Downsizing, The Phantom Thread, and…
XYZ Type brings its ABCs to Type Network
After hiring each other for multiple projects during a prolonged business courtship, Ben Kiel and Jesse Ragan committed to starting a foundry together in 2017. They join us with a vibrant type library and a passion for craft and technology.
ScreenFonts: December 2017 | The Leftovers
These posters didn’t make the cut, but are still noteworthy for their design and/or typography.
ScreenFonts: December 2017
This episode of ScreenFonts unexpectedly turned out to resemble a blind taste test. I look at posters for My Friend Dahmer, Roman J. Israel, Esq., Mugen no jûnin (Blade of the Immortal), Along for the Ride, Thelma, Most Beautiful Island,…