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Typefaces with exaggerated pinching where two strokes join, usually where shoulder strokes meet stems, and particularly visible in heavier 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 |
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| Publisher: | Process Type Foundry |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2021-03-30 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | processtypefoundry.com |
A contemporary serif typeface covering a broad range of styles. Its sans counterpart is NewsSans Variable.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, optical sizes, pinched joints, sharp, wedge serif | |
| Design: | Henning Skibbe |
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| Publisher: | Character Type |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2020-12-11 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | charactertype.com |
A text+display sans family geared toward editorial design.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, sans, closed in, grotesque, inserat, neo-grotesque, optical sizes, pinched joints, straight-sided, superellipse | |
| Design: | Florian Fecher |
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| Publisher: | TypeTogether |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2020-10-28 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | type-together.com |
A sharp serif typeface with two separate italic styles – one with a fairly traditional structure and another where the placement of weight shifts around for more horizontal stress. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, fat-face, horizontal stress, optical sizes, phototype, pinched joints, sharp, wavy/wiggly | |
| Design: | James T. Edmondson |
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| Publisher: | OH no Type Co. |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2020-08-24 |
| Updated: | 2020-11-17 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | ohnotype.co |
A playful sans covering a large range of weights and widths, as well as a monospaced variant.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, sans, geometric, grotesque, ink traps, inserat, monoline, monospaced, multiplexed, multiplexed posture, multiplexed weight, neo-grotesque, overbite/underbite, pinched joints, variable posture | |
| Design: | Dominic Huber, Moiré |
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| Publisher: | Grilli Type |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2020-07-21 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | gt-flexa.com |
A digital adaptation of W.A. Dwiggins’ unreleased upright italic typeface, Charter.
| Tags: decorative/display, serif, calligraphic, fat-face, optical sizes, pinched joints, swash, teardrop terminals, upright italic | |
| Design: | Cristobal Henestrosa, Oscar Yañez |
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| Publisher: | Sudtipos |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2020-07-07 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | sudtipos.com |
A “didone” serif typeface with options for extreme stroke contrast.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, didone, multiplexed, optical sizes, pinched joints, teardrop terminals | |
| Design: | Ian Party |
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| Publisher: | newglyph |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2020-06-29 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | newglyph.com |
A geometric sans.
| Tags: body text, sans, geometric, gothic, multiplexed, pinched joints | |
| Design: | Ian Party |
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| Publisher: | newglyph |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2020-06-29 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | newglyph.com |
A geometric sans with the option to exaggerate details where strokes meet.
| Tags: sans, geometric, multiplexed, multiplexed posture, optical sizes, pinched joints, variable posture, vertex spread | |
| Design: | Tomáš Brousil |
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| Publisher: | Suitcase Type Foundry |
| Characters: | Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2020-05-07 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | suitcasetype.com |
James Edmondson’s take on a general-purpose “boring” sans.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, sans, geometric, feature variations, gothic, ink traps, monoline, multiplexed, neo-grotesque, optical sizes, phototype, pinched joints, variable posture | |
| Design: | James T. Edmondson |
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| Publisher: | OH no Type Co. |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2020-04-01 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | ohnotype.co |
A hyper-stylized ode to fat-faces of the early 1800s as viewed through the lens of the 1970s.
| Tags: decorative/display, serif, ball terminals, cartoon, didone, fat-face, optical sizes, phototype, pinched joints, sharp | |
| Design: | James T. Edmondson |
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| Publisher: | OH no Type Co. |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2020-01-13 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | ohnotype.co |
A condensed sans.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, gothic, ink traps, inserat, pinched joints, straight-sided, variable posture | |
| Design: | Doni Sukma |
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| Publisher: | Letter Omega Typefoundry |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-11-29 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | youworkforthem.com |
A serif typeface originally made for newspaper use, inspired by the work of Francesco Griffo. It’s a companion to Sole Sans.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, calligraphic, fat-face, oldstyle, optical sizes, pinched joints | |
| Design: | Luciano Perondi |
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| Publisher: | Cast Type Foundry |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-11-26 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | c-a-s-t.com |
A high-contrast didone fat-face.
| Tags: decorative/display, serif, ball terminals, didone, fat-face, pinched joints, Victorian, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Alessia Mazzarella |
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| Publisher: | Fontsmith Ltd. |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-10-29 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | fontsmith.com |
A hybrid slab/sans typeface with unusual distribution of stroke weight, giving a strong horizontal emphasis, especially in the lowercase. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.
| Tags: decorative/display, slab serif, sans, some serifs, fat-face, grotesque, horizontal stress, neo-grotesque, pinched joints, variable posture | |
| Design: | Adrien Midzic |
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| Publisher: | Pizza Typefaces |
| Characters: | Latin, Cyrillic |
| Released: | 2019-10-15 |
| Updated: | 2020-02-12 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | futurefonts.xyz |
| Tags: decorative/display, serif, calligraphic, flared/concave, inscriptional, multiplexed, ornamented, pinched joints, sharp, stencil, unusual variation | |
| Design: | Nikola Djurek |
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| Publisher: | Typotheque |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-09-17 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | typotheque.com |
A sans with some quirky details.
| Tags: body text, sans, bent strokes, neo-grotesque, overbite/underbite, pinched joints, variable posture, vertex spread | |
| Design: | Adrien Midzic |
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| Publisher: | Pizza Typefaces |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-09-16 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | typefaces.pizza |
An angular serif typeface with variable options to for pseudo-randomized irregularity.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, slab serif, M-formula, pinched joints, rotation, sharp, unusual variation, wedge serif | |
| Design: | Riccardo De Franceschi |
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| Publisher: | Cast Type Foundry |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-09-05 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | c-a-s-t.com |
A unique, high-contrast sans with distinctive incisions at stroke intersections. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, didone, dingbats, ink traps, pinched joints, sliced, variable posture, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Sláva Jevčinová |
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| Publisher: | Into the Type |
| Characters: | Latin, dingbats/emoji |
| Released: | 2019-08-29 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | futurefonts.xyz |
A serif typeface with unconventional forms, intended for body text. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, horizontal stress, overbite/underbite, pinched joints, sharp | |
| Design: | Jean-Baptiste Morizot |
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| Publisher: | Phantom Foundry |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-07-25 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | futurefonts.xyz |
A script-y typeface modeled after hand-painted brush lettering. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, script, brush, calligraphic, cartoon, pinched joints, sharp, swash, upright script | |
| Design: | Kyle Wayne Benson |
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| Publisher: | Very Cool Studio |
| Characters: | Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2019-06-11 |
| Updated: | 2019-08-01 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | futurefonts.xyz |
A variable incarnation of the sans-serif styles from IBM’s Plex type series.
| Tags: body text, sans, feature variations, neo-grotesque, pinched joints | |
| Design: | Mike Abbink, Bold Monday, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen |
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| Publisher: | IBM |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2019-04-08 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
An extra-condensed grotesque that gets wider as it gets bolder. The font contains a collection of small stacking alternate glyphs for titling purposes.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, closed in, grotesque, ink traps, pinched joints, woman-designed, wood type | |
| Design: | Vika Usmanova, TypeType |
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| Publisher: | TypeType |
| Characters: | Latin, Cyrillic |
| Released: | 2019-03-05 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | myfonts.com |
An experimental typeface that embraces the strange results of interpolating between blackletter and early Cyrillic ustav forms. Offered with discounted pricing while it’s still a work in progress.
| Tags: decorative/display, serif, sans, blackletter, calligraphic, proof of concept, pinched joints, polygonal, retractable serifs, sharp, unusual variation, ustav, wavy/wiggly | |
| Design: | CSTM Fonts |
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| Publisher: | CSTM Fonts |
| Characters: | Cyrillic, Latin (limited) |
| Released: | 2019-02-21 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | futurefonts.xyz |
A sans typeface related to FK Grotesk but with more exaggerated personality.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, geometric, bent strokes, neo-grotesque, overbite/underbite, pinched joints, vertex spread | |
| Design: | Florian Karsten |
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| Publisher: | Florian Karsten |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-02-10 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | floriankarsten.com |
A multipurpose sans with exaggerated ink traps.
| Tags: body text, sans, ink traps, neo-grotesque, pinched joints, variable posture, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Flora de Carvalho, Rodrigo Saiani |
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| Publisher: | Plau |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-02-05 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | plau.co |
A sans typeface whose quirky personality becomes exaggerated as its weight increases.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, neo-grotesque, overbite/underbite, pinched joints | |
| Design: | Christian Jánský |
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| Publisher: | KOMETA Typefaces |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-01-31 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | kometa.xyz |
A sans-serif tribute to Didot, with extra-thin hairlines.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, calligraphic, fat-face, pinched joints, sharp, variable posture | |
| Design: | Adrien Midzic |
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| Publisher: | Pizza Typefaces |
| Characters: | Latin |
| Released: | 2019-01-16 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | typefaces.pizza |
An experiment in italicization, this one-off member of the Roslindale type series can vary its italic forms separately from the angle of slanting. The vast majority of typefaces change italic forms along with slanting, so this may be the first case of both the registered ‘italic’ and ‘slant’ axes being used in the same variable font.
| Tags: decorative/display, serif, feature variations, flared/concave, inscriptional, phototype, pinched joints, sharp, unusual variation, upright italic, variable posture, wedge serif | |
| Design: | David Jonathan Ross |
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| Publisher: | DJR, Font of the Month Club |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2019-01-01 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | djr.com |
The iA Writer fonts, made for the iA Writer app, are a modification of IBM Plex, originally designed by Bold Monday with Mike Abbink at IBM. The Mono fonts match glyph widths for all characters. Duo allows an additional glyph width for letters that are otherwise cramped. Quattro uses 4 glyph widths, approaching a standard proportional typeface.
| Tags: body text, sans, some serifs, code, monospaced, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, neo-grotesque, pinched joints, quantized | |
| Design: | Oliver Reichenstein, Bold Monday, Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen |
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| Publisher: | Information Architects Inc. |
| Characters: | Latin, Cyrillic, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2018-12-21 |
| Licensing: | Bundled, Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |