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The best commercial typefaces of 2019: Luc's selection

This is my own selection of the best commercial typefaces published in 2019, grouped by category.

Text typefaces: Ivar (Letters from Sweden). A Times-style workhorse. FF Kievit Serif (Michael Abbink and Paul van der Laan). Recita (Dino dos Santos). Radal (Sergio Leiva Whittle). Austera Text (Manuel Corradine).

Sans typefaces: Gaultier (Mateusz Machalski). An exploratory modern hybrid of a serifless Garamond and Gill Sans. Oldschool Grotesk (William Montrose at Kilotype). Söhne (KLIM: Kris Sowersby). A multigenerational descendant of of Akzidenz Grotesk, close to perfection. Absolutely awesome. Ahimsa (Luis Bandovas). A humanist sans family. Hype (Neil Summerour). A total of 396 typefaces from ultra-condensed to wide, and hairlane to ultra-black. F37 Moon. A 14-style geometric sans with no concessions. Hurme FIN (Hurme Design). Niko (Ludwig Uebele). Marsden (Jason Vandenberg). Passenger Sans (Diana Ovezea and Samo Acko). Mazzard (Oleh Lishchuk, Pepper Type). A geometric grotesque in three x-heights and 54 styles. Mazzard L, the small x-height subfamily, is especially striking. See also Mazzard Soft. Montreux Grotesk (Roch Modrzejewski). A modern slightly geometric take on Helvetica, in 132 styles. Marlin Geo (Michael Hagemann). A 63-style geometric take on Helvetica, enhanced by many opentype features, and a direct competitor of Helvetica Now. Corsa Grotesk (Alexander Nedelev). Inspired by Avenir. Klein (Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli). Sigmund (Mateusz Machalski) and Sigmund Pro (2022). Very loosely based on the 1975 Polish traffic sign font Drogowskaz by Marek Sigmund. Graphit (2019). By Livius Dietzel and Tom Hossfeld at Lit Design Studio, a Bauhaus geometric. Noah (2019). By Svet Simov, Radomir Tinkov and Stan Partalev. Sole Sans. An extensive newspaper sans by Luciano Perondi and Riccardo Olocco, published by CAST.

Rounded sans typefaces: Promo (Mateusz Machalski). Hatchway (Romulo Gobira). Monospaced, with delightful interlocking glyphs.

Type systems: Role (Slab, Serif, Sans, Soft). By Matthew Carter, Shotaro Nakano and Kunihiko Okano at Morisawa. Monterchi (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini at Zetafonts).

Art deco typefaces: Replete Sans (Alejandro Paul, Sudtipos). A seven-style typeface inspired by early 20th century lettering on metropolitan buildings all over the world. Molitor (Mathieu Cortat). A joyful sans typeface family with art deco roots. Disalina (Maciej Wloczewski). KD Pempo (Zhalgas Kassymkulov).

Hipster typefaces:

Script typefaces: Cherolina (Abdul Malik Wisnu, Almarkha Type). Moister (Ilham Herry). A retro signage jewel. Hector Ink (Agung Syaifudin). An ink splatter font. Elmira (Nissa Nana). Pika Ultra (Mark Caneso). Ernesthuge (Muchsal Al Chalidi).

Calligraphic typefaces: Behofeel (Nyapa Tanzil). Rare Bird Specimen VI (Jessica McCarthy). Based on the hand of Aileen Fretz. Allagia (Sabrtype). Wordless Script (Gabriel Martinez Meave, at Sudtipos). Banda Neira (Redy studio). A formal wedding script. Kiramba (Pineungtype). Kalli Sketch (Lazar Dimitrijevic). Romantically (Abo Daniel).

Brush typefaces: Grafema LC (Todor Georgiev and Jacklina Jekova at Letter Collective). A calligraphic flatbrush font family in 16 styles.

Sketched, Layered or Poster typefaces: Rono (Jan-Christian Bruun).

Blackletter typefaces: Almost (Jerome Knebusch). Luke (Hidetaka Yamasaki). Nurnberg (Pavel Korzhenko). Lazarus Fraktur (Ania Wielunska). Dedicated web site. A revival of the New Polish Karakter from 1594 by Jan Januszowski, Jan Kochanowski and Lukasz Gornicki.

Dingbats and ornaments: Heneczek Pro (Damian and Dominika Langosz). The arrows and fists in this didone family!

Programming fonts: Fakt Mono (Thomas Thiemich at Type By). Regio Mono (Deni Anggara). Rand Mono (François Rappo, Optimo). Accompanying his Rand grotesque typeface. LFT Etica Mono (Andrea Braccaloni). Lexia Mono (Dalton Maag).

Garalde typefaces: Galien (Black Foundry). More than just a garalde, a major gallic enhancement. JJannon (François Rappo, Optimo).

Display typefaces: Blacker Pro (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli). In the evil serif genre. A substantial update of Blacker. Brucker (Jeremy Tankard). Ayer Poster Angular (Miguel Reyes). Part of his larger Ayer typeface family at Commercial Type. FM Bolyar Sans Pro (Jordan Jelev and Vassil Kateliev). Naoko (Emilie Rigaud). Plaax (Damien Gautier). Hyper (Anita Jürgeleit). Gigantic (Dave Rowland). Neue Machina (Vasjen Katro / Baugasm and mathieu Desjardins). PVC (Hélène Marian for Production Type). Valent (Jimbo Bernaus and Tea Sokac). PF Mellon (Panos Vassiliou).

Slab serif typefaces: Söhne Mono (KLIM: Kris Sowersby). Part of Söhne, a descendant of of Akzidenz Grotesk. Fragen (Lucas Descroix). Galeria (Bruno Jara for Latinotype). Breton (Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida).

Copperplate: BP BlackWhite (Dmitrii Mikitenko and Sabina Aliyarova).

Wood type revivals: i Etna (Mark Simonson). An extension and modernization of William H. Page's Aetna (1874). Catalpa (José Scaglione, Veronika Burian, Azza Alameddine). This hairline-to-ultra black typeface family has its roots in wood type, and blossoms as headline type. F37 Judge (Rick Banks). Podium Sharp (Mateusz Machalski). Not exactly a revival, but a monstrous 234-style family with genetic origins in several old Polish wood types.

Letterpress emulation: LDN Mammoth Woodblock and LDN Mammoth (Paul Harpin, London Type). Wood Heinz No. 4 (Andreas Seidel). With four rotating alternates for each glyph.

Didone typefaces: Palio (Olcar Alcaide). Schorel (2019). A 54-style Scotch roman. Not a didone, but a useful addition to the Scotch roman genre. Saltaire (2019). By Nick Cooke. Freight Big Compressed Pro (2019, a sturdy rational newspaper masthead and book cover typeface by Robby Woodard and Phil's Fonts). Tectonic (Rodrigo Lopez Fuentes). London Fatface (Paul Harpin). CAL Bodoni Casale (Dave Lawrence, California Type Foundry). ATC Anais (Christian Dexter for Avondale Type Co). Anorganic and orgasmic pleasures with nyctophobic fat didones. Couturier Poster (Diego Maldonado).

Fashion mag typefaces: PF Marlet (Panos Vassiliou). Lingerie Wild Pro (Moshik Nadav). Voir (Pompe Hedengren and Göran Söderström). A hairline deco. Magnat (Rene Bieder). Mint Soda (Patrick Seymour). Ao Dai (Manh Nguyen).

Revivals: Alloy Slab Heavy (Andree Paat). A liberal revival of George Bruce's Great Primer Antique (1848). A2 Record Gothic (Henrik Kubel at A2). Finally, a grand revival of Robert H. Middleton's Record Gothic (1927, Ludlow). Caslon Ionic (Paul Barnes and Greg Gazdowicz at Commercial Type). Dejanire (Ramiro Espinoza at Re-Type). A revival and improvement of a typeface by Claude Lamesle, 1742. Acier (Jean-Baptiste Levée). A bi-colored revival of Cassandre's Acier (1930). Levée had earlier revived this in 2010. Schneidler Latein (Lena Schmidt). After F.H. Ernst Schneidler's Schneidler Latein (1916-1921). ATF Franklin Gothic (Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, Ben Kiel). Based on Morris Fuller Benton's Franklin Gothic (1905), with lighter styles inspired by Benton's Monotone Gothic. Pagnol (Jean-Renaud Cuaz). After A.M. Cassandre's famous Peignot from 1937. Radar (Marta Sanchez Marco at Type-o-Tones). A revival of the 1930s font Grotesca Radio (Carl Winkow). Hellen (Genilson Lima Santos). A revival of Koch Antiqua (1922). Orplid Pro (Ralph M. Unger). A revival and layerable extension of Hans Bohn's Bauhaus typeface Orplid (1929). Bremer Presse (Dorothée Schraudner). This revives Willy Wiegand's antiqua that he made for his Bremer Presse ca. 1912. Skope (Jose Manuel Uros).

Stencil typefaces: Rekall (2019, Bold Monday). Styro (2019, Aarya Purohit). Sväng (Claes Nordenstam for Letters of Sweden). Based on his 1976 original, Quickstep. Majora Stencil (Luis Bandovas). Buum (Ondrej Chory).

Variable fonts: TT Interfaces (TypeType). Later renamed TT Interphases. TT Frantz (Vika Usmanova). Experimental, refreshing, with a variable waistline height. ETC Imbue (Etcetera Type Company). With variation in optical sizes. PF Grand Gothik (Parachute). A large grotesque typeface family with three subfamilies and a variable font option. Antonia (Typejockeys). Denso (Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal). TT Trailers (Vika Usmanova). Grafier (Alex Slobzheninov).

Multilingual typefaces: Tuqbal Pro (2015-2019) by Andreu Balius and Juan Luis Blanco at Type Republic. This family covers Latin, Arabic and Tifinagh in a consistent manner. Inscribing Song (Archer Zuo). Chikki (Kimya Gandhi at Mota italic). For Latin and Devanagari. Dunkel Sans (Minjoo Ham). An obese poster typeface for Latin and Hangul, carefully balanced across both scripts. Vocal (Ani Dimitrova).

Wonderful, adorable, refreshing typefaces: Arkit Bomb (Erasmo Ciufo, CAST). Moranga (Sofia Mohr). Inspired by Cooper. Nero Alto (Mateo Broillet). Hatton (Mathieu Desjardins and Two Times Elliott). Eclectic and with the signature hipster t. Hagrid (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini). In the crypto-typographic genre. Akut (Pedro Leal, DS Type). Pure angular joy. Sneakers Max (Neil Summerour). Pieches (Erica Jung and Ricardo Marcin). Based on Paul Peter Piech's political and social posters. Roba (Franziska Weitgruber). Pamplemousse (DC Scarpelli). Zentral (Robbie de Villiers). P22 Schneeberger (Tracy Sabin). Harpagan (Mateusz Machalski).

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