A Didone made for the page. Mondial Text by Lukas Schneider revives Hans Bohn’s 1930s design, with abrupt shifts from thin to thick strokes and a pronounced vertical stress that add art deco grandeur to a book’s text.

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Brickie Variable by Juanjo López is a semi-serif family with a wide range of widths and weights, built for the boldest posters in its extreme styles and the most legible text in its regular zone.

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Chidori by Frank Grießhammer began as the Latin counterpart to Momochidori, the Japanese typeface from Adobe Originals. It carries the same quirky, humorous, and approachable spirit, inspired by the Showa Era.

Free from having to match Momochidori’s Japanese design, Chidori’s tretch further toward the extremes.

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Parry and Parry Grotesque by Artur Schmal have their roots in the robust slab serif and sans serif typefaces of the Victorian age, but they aren’t revivals. Soft curves and quirky serifs meet sharp-cut stroke endings, giving a text image that’s softer than most slab serifs. Get 1AxxUyxB

Retros by Rustam Gabbasov is a natural fit for beauty, lifestyle, and luxury brand identities, blending the softness of broad-nib brush calligraphy with the strength and precision of chiseled stone carving in its elegant curves.

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Marat by Ludwig Übele began as a sans serif and gradually morphed into lively serif forms. Moderate contrast and strong serifs give the lighter weights a typewriter-like slab quality, while the underlying structure follows contemporary Antiqua proportions. Alternating angular and soft and friendly, and tense curves complement the roman cuts.

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Spooky season calls for blackletter, but Schmaltzy by Matthijs Herzberg works well beyond Halloween. It's about as relaxed as a blackletter gets, with no sharp edges, only smooth curves flowing into one another, and a distinct personality that can anchor a brand identity. 👉 tps://t.co/kg1AxxUyxB

Nickel Gothic by DJR in use for Waterford Walls Daily Bulletin. Waterford Walls is an international street art festival that brings more than fifty artists from around the world to Waterford each August for ten days of painting, music, and events.

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Our second Meet the Network episode features Valentina Casali, a type designer, junior engineer, and project manager at CAST Foundry, a cooperative based in Bolzano, Italy.

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Looking for fonts that make some noise? Comicraft’s typefaces are made to be heard, from a quick ZAP to a full KA-BOOM. Here are a few of our favorite sound effects, each set in a different Comicraft font.

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Violeta by Quintana-Font in use for the book Hotel Love by Petra Piuk

Vienna-based Sellerie Studio designed the book, developing a series of lipstick lettering along with the layout and typesetting. The typesetting pairs MT Baskerville for the main text with Violeta for titles ut Mono Compressed for the ISBN and the book’s sections.

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Want an elegant serif with a modern edge? Clarinetta, designed by Jürgen Huber, pairs deliberately pronounced serifs with striking contrast, bringing fresh energy to time-honored typographic principles. 👉 License Clarinetta at typenetwork.com

Good menu type does what a good host does: It makes a stranger feel like they already belong at the table. Here are five faces for the menu, the packaging, and everything in between, from bistro serifs to chalkboard scripts.

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Late Serif by Henning Skibbe is a silky, contemporary text typeface. The typeface family supports 210 languages through its Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. 👉 License Late Serif at typenetwork.com

Pieter van Rosmalen's Oigle offers a fresh perspective on Cake Sans, flipping its structure into a reverse-contrast typeface. It comes in one style and supports Latin Extended, including Vietnamese, and Cyrillic.

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Ringold Clarendon by Bijou Type in use in Nation’s Dumbest – Nation’s Dumbest follows celebrities competing in school-themed challenges, where the goal isn’t to win but to avoid coming in last.

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Dyana Weissman is typically not a fan of sans serif typefaces, but on a trip to Norway, she was inspired by the labels on antique medicine bottles she saw on display in a museum. The robust personality of the letters convinced her to give sans serif a try. 👉 License Apotek at typenetwork.com

Sudz by Jamie Chang is a graffiti and bubble-letter inspired color font, built from winding, looping strokes that create a dynamic and hypnotic texture. Made for display use, it's best suited for brand identities, merch design, and packaging.

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Borax is an ode to the typography scene of New York City and Chicago in the late 1970s, when ad agencies and typesetters used cameras, geometry sets, and drafting boards to model an ideal life of consumption, printing it all into a sleek culture everyone thought would last that tension between restraint and personality, and the quirkiness that comes with it.

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Looking for an interesting script typeface? 🖋️ Sedgwick, designed by Troy Leinster, is a mannered, upright, unconnected script, with a touch of ’tude. License Sedgwick at typenetwork.com