Some popular fonts this month
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Some popular fonts this month
Natalya is a gracious calligraphic script with swirls and swashes based on the Golden Ratio. Its forms are open and its spacing is generous for better legibility. The OpenType character sets are huge and include a wealth of special ligatures. Natalya comes in three combinable versions with differently shaped swashes. Be warned though! Usually in families that have alternate swashes, the Regular font is the most modest one. In Natalya, it works the other way around. Should the Regular be too baroque for your taste, try Alternate Two.
Ryoichi Tsunekawa of Flat-It from Nagoya, Japan, is steadily producing inventive new fonts in a wide range of styles. He’s done awesome grunge fonts, gorgeous scripts and uncompromising geometric fonts. With Cotoris, he is exploring yet another aspect of type design. Cotoris is a sans-serif that is rich in contrast, with the vertical stress of ‘modern’ romans. There’s an echo of German titling faces from the 1920s – but Cotoris has an openness all of its own. Probably the best thing about it is its amazing set of OpenType features: ligatures for lowercase and capitals, nice ornaments and other goodies.
Think pirates, treasure hunts, explorers’ maps, shady contracts, captains' logs cut short by some intruder or natural disaster. That’s the kind of atmosphere evoked by the ten members of the rich and impressive Panamericana family. The font names are a course in basic Spanish: Blanca, Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres... Panamerican breathes calligraphy, but also plays around with every kind of grungy distortion that you can think of. Designer Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero is from Mérida, Venezuela, and now runs the Andinistas studio in Bogotà, Colombia. Two cities on the Andes mountain range – that’s why the studio is called “Andes people”.
Beurre is an energetic roundhand-like script with remarkable capitals. The caps’ main downstrokes are split, creating an effect that recalls a scene at the breakfast table, as designer Robbie de Villiers explains: “Picture a butter knife that slices into butter, slowly wedging the cut wider so that when it is pulled back, the remaining shape would resemble the main downstroke of any capital letter.” Beurre is ideal for menus, invitations and other occasions where you need a reasonably strong, but friendly legible script.
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