by
Gwenola
Kidd
Corbett
Comic Fans
Showing some love to the font we were taught to hate. Comic Fans was designed to be used in long form text but her beautifully wonky curves make for playful headlines as well. Try out the Regular and Bold of the sans for free and see if you can resist getting the italics and serif...
*Regular & Bold Only
Italic & Serif Not included
Stay Mono
With references in roadway lettering, Stay Mono is a love letter to the "untrained" hand and the influence the tool has on the creation of the letter. It has four main styles; Paint, Stencil, Script and, Tile, Grout and Fill. The last three functioning as a layer-able font. Though they range in form, all four styles are linked by a consistent character width meaning styles can be mixed and matched without reflowing text. A diverse face questioning what a type family can be.
Poplarity V0.2
Based off Barbara Lind's work, revisiting Poplar with the intent to imbue more of the wonky-ness throughout the face while also expanding into italics as well as the lighter weights that were part of William Leavenworth's Patented Wood Type Collection, but not digitized as part of the Adobe Wood Type Release.
BT Hofmann
The text face you haven't been looking for your entire life.
Based off of Armin Hofmann's "Die Gute Form" poster and the playful teachings of Basel international style, This type plays with legibility and negative space, hyper-modulating the contemporary geometric sans serif, creating a space for transgression.
Monarchist
The name originally coming from the design of the "M" looking butterfly-ish, but taking on new meaning through it's development. While supporting monarchies in the traditional sense of the word no longer makes much sense, the Kings, Queens and (non-binary) Monarchs of queer culture are a continued act of decolonization that should be supported. The two styles act to define, and take up space respectively.
Olive
With the intent of creating "Something at least usable" Olive began with calligraphic studies under the influence of sans serif shapes and structure. It functions as an active bridge between the two with a transitional stress across each letter.
Grand Central
Mono
This modular, monospaced type gets it's structure from the analog light signs that displayed train times in Grand Central Terminal. These signs were lost in 2019 to make way for digital screens.
GCM is more than just a preservation of this strange bit of type, the full expression of the lowercase and development in Cyrillic let us see the beauty in limitation and creating within a system not initially designed for that type of expansion.