The best commercial typefaces of 2017: Luc's selection

This is my own selection of the best commercial typefaces published in 2017, grouped by category.

Text typefaces: Barocco (Ingo Preuss). Landa (Pablo Alaejos Perez). Guyot Text (Ramiro Espinoza). Artigo Pro (Joana Correia). Eros Text (Lucas Sharp and Connor Davenport). Thesaurus (Fermin Guerrero for Typotheque). Based on metal types used by the Estiennes, but modernized. An extension of his 2014 diploma typeface, Genève. Rival (Olivier Gourvat).

Sans typefaces: Newson (Lukas Schneider, Revolver Type Foundry). An attention-grabbing legible wayfinding sans family. Halyard (Joshua Darden, Lucas Sharp and Eben Sorkin). An information design grotesque typeface family. Cosimo (Mathieu Cortat). Especially Cosimo Black. Stratos (+Cyrillic) (Jean-Baptiste Levée, Yoann Minet, Ilya Ruderman, Yury Ostremtskiy). Urania (Dieter Hofrichter). Clarika Grotesque (Brandon Knap). Tusker Grotesk (Lewis McGuffie). Akkordeon (Eduardo Manso). Croma Sans (Dieter Hofrichter). Sharp Grotesk. A 259-font family by Lucas Sharp. Axiforma (Galin Kastelov). Altivo (Nikola Kostic). Bergen Text (Mindburger Studio). Prosaic (Aurélien Vret, Typofonderie). Caros and Caros Soft (Hyun-Seung Lee). Noway (Atipo). A wayfinding sans. Liber Grotesque (Valerio Dell'Edera). The Italian love story with futurismo continues. ATC Arquette (Alex Sheyn, Avondale Type Co). A geometric sans.

Rounded sans typefaces: Oblivian Grotesque (Jörg Schmitt). Apoka (Mariya Vasiljevna Pigoulevskaya and Tom Sutton, The Northern Block). TG Naonao (Weishan Gao). Cera Round Pro (Jakob Runge and Lisa Fischbach). Comspot and Comspot Tec (Nils Thomsen). Toriga (Joao Symington). Proxima Soft (Mark Simonson). The rounded version of Proxima Nova. Mymra (Ramiz Guseynov). Goudar HL (Stawix Ruecha). Urby Soft (Jakob Runge). Designed in 2016, it was first published in 2017.

Type systems: Dover Text (Robin Mientjes, Tiny Type Co). Artegra Sans (Ceyhun Birinci). A 162-style family with 1500 glyphs per font, covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and a lot more.

Art deco typefaces: Lansere (Oleg Macujev). Saveur Sans and and Saveur Sans Round (Andrew Footit). Studio Gothic (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli at Zetafonts). Based on Alessandro Butti's Semplicita (1930).

Hipster typefaces:

Script typefaces: Scrittore (Pedro Leal). An Italian bastarda script inspired by Tagliente's work from 1531. Okelani Script (Dmitry Arakelov). Limon (Sabrina Mariela Lopez). Buinton (Mika Melvas). Pedrera and Pedrera Script (Alex Etewut). Fado (Olga Umpeleva). A classical broad nib calligraphic typeface for Latin and Cyrillic. Kodama Forest (David Kerkhoff).

Calligraphic typefaces: Peaches (Sukjana Almunandar). dT Delicatta (Eduilson Wessler Coan, dooType). This is an improved version of his 2012 masterpiece, Delicatta. Mahdaleina (Jun Herjuna). Sophia Script (Dimitrii Mikitenko). Moodellyna Script (Arman Chairanza). Indulge Script (Anthony James). Emanuela (Vladimir Fedotov). Siberius (Marina Karlova). Cinque Donne (Debi Sementelli). American Script (Darwin Huayan Harahap). Sweeter Than Candy Script (Darwin Huayan Harahap). Geographica Script (Brian Willson).

Brush typefaces: Inkinity (Angelo Konofaos). Warrenson Script (Lucy Chugg). Rotterdam (Olga Zakharova). Her Kaleido dry brush script is excellent as well. Ahkio (Mika Melvas). Cartina (Dmitriy Chirkov). Whitey (Anastasia Nekrasova).

Sketched, Layered or Poster typefaces: Porterhouse (Arnie Presiado, Inkfonts). After the poster lettering of Ludwig Hohlwein. Trade Gothic Display (Lynne Yun). Aires (Yai Salinas, Fontself). Bourbon House (Andrey Sharonov). Baroschi (D.M. Rachmath). Trixie (Faqih Sandri). Crepes (Hyun-Seung Lee). A set of 25 fonts for layering, texturing and shadow effects. Rocher (Henrique Beier). Rig Shaded (Jamie Clarke). A 3d shaded megafamily. Bitcount (by Petr van Blokland). Pixelmania to the tenth power. Sutro Initials (Jim Parkinson). Chromatic and layered. Zufo (Andrei Robu). A children's book or comic strip font. Andimia (Faqih Sandri, Dri Zy). A layered typeface family. Closed Worlds (Natasha Jen).

Blackletter typefaces: Osgard (Anthony James). Aunque (Jani Paavola). Aktura (Gaetan Baehr). Dracula (Frantiek Storm).

Dingbats and ornaments: Teddings (Beatrice Davies, Fust & Friends). S&S Nickson Extras (Cahya Sofyan, Spencer and Sons). Represent (Tony de Marco). For all sexual orientations! Cristal Dingbats (Manuel Eduardo Corradine). Integrated with Cristal Frames, and a beveled polygonized typeface, Cristal.

Programming fonts: Alma Mono (Daniel Feldt).

Garalde typefaces:

Display typefaces: Mayak (Yana Nosenko, Paratype). A constructivist set of typefaces. Alioli (Barcelona Design Shop). NWB Ultra Violent (Jason Gilliland). Duckie (Dave Rowland). Avory (Slavka Jevcinova for Rosetta Type Foundry). Cimo (Dino dos Santos). A formidable condensed sans family. Antique Gothic (Production Type). AT Arges (Matthieu Salvaggio). PF Venue (Panos Vassiliou). Bw Gradual (Alberto Romanos). Pilot (Aleksandra Samulenkova, Bold Monday). A German expressionist typeface family originally drawn in 2012. Harri (Juan Luis Blanco). Magiel Pro (Mateusz Machalski at Borutta). Arya Rounded (Vicente Lamonaca). Noka (Daniel Sabino). Bjola (Andrey Sharonov). A lovely children's book typeface.

Slab serif typefaces: Gelo (Tom Foley, Selma Losch, Dalton Maag). Walter (Teo Tuominen, Type Together). Lehigh (Dan Gneiding, Lost Type). Publica Slab (Marcus Sterz). Beaga (Alvaro Thomaz). Akkordeon Slab (Eduardo Manso). Sanchez Niu (Daniel Hernandez).

Copperplate: Marchell (Bangkit Setiadi). Massimo (Mateusz Machalski). Bibliophile Script (Alejandro Paul). Cynthia June JF (Jason Anthony Walcott). Copperplate calligraphy. Estampa Script (Sofia Mohr).

Wood type revivals: Fusta (Pedro Leal).

Letterpress emulation: Heinrich (Christian Pannicke). Zing Rust (Svetoslav Simov, Plamen Motev and the Fontfabric team): 521 handmade typefaces with as sub-families Zing Rust, Zing Script Rust, Zing Sans Rust and Zing Goodies Rust. Brock Pro (Stawix Ruecha). Not exactly letterpress type, but a celebration of it. Related to Block Berthold.

Didone typefaces: Praho Pro (Maciej Wloczewski). Scotch (Neil Summerour, Positype). A large Scotch roman family. Zesta (Jérémie Hornus, Julie Soudanne and Alisa Nowak).

Fashion mag typefaces: Peristyle (Hoefler). Lingerie XO (Moshik Nadav). Ravensara Serif (Pyotr Bushuev). Thomas Mag (Syed Faraz Ahmad). Bennet (Richard Lipton). Ninety six styles!

Revivals: Bona Nova (Mateusz Machalski). A revival and extension of Andrzej Heidrich's Bona. F37 Bergman (Rick Banks). A revival of Florida (1931, Hans Möhring). A2 Mazarin (Henrik Kubel, A2). A revival of Robert Girard's Astrée (1921-1923, Deberny Peignot) and Stephenson Blake's Mazarin (1926). Dair (Nick Shinn). A revival of Carl Dair's Cartier (1967). Mondial (Text and Display) (Lukas Schneider, Revolver Type Foundry). A revival and rejuvenation of Hans Bohn's didone typeface Mondial (1930). Albertus Nova (Toshi Omagari, Monotype). Based on Berthold Wolpe's lapidary typeface Albertus (1932). dT Jakob (Gustavo Soares and Eduardo Wessler Coan). 57 Nao (Andrew Bellamy). A revival of a Latin typewriter font developed in the 1950s in Japan called Messenjaa. English 1766 (Henrik Kubel, A2). A take on Caslon. Guyot Headline (by Ramiro Espinoza). Kopius Condensed (Sybille Hagmann). Mixing a bit of Cooper Black's roundness with Herbert Thannhaeuser's Liberta (Typoart, 1958). Basilio (Hans van Maanen for Canada Type). After Stefan Schlesinger's italienne typeface Hidalgo (1939).

Stencil typefaces: Pikolo Block Alt (Agne Matulionyte, Ideabuk). Analog (Daniel Reed). DIN Next Stencil (Akira Kobayashi and Sabina Chipara). Arkibal Serif Stencil (Jan-Christian Bruun).

Variable fonts: Dunbar (C.J. Dunn at CJ Type). Fit (David Jonathan Ross).

Multilingual typefaces: Ten Mincho (Ryoko Nishizuka, Adobe), which includes the Latin Ten Oldstyle by Robert Slimbach. Core Gothic E (Hyun-Seung Lee for S-Core). A superb Hangul sans. Mozarkash (Mostafa El Abasiry). Arabic deco. Allabbad (Ali Almasri). Omar Naskh (Zuhair Albazi, Omar Type).

Wonderful, adorable, refreshing typefaces: Bluusuuperstar (Jean-Baptiste Morizot and Gaëtan Baehr). Sul Mono (Rui Abreu). Zart (Pedro Leal, DS Type). A fat face didone. Plunk (Daniel Reed). Inspired by early 20th century jazz. Cocotte (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini). Niemeyer (Luciano Vergara at Latinotype). Venzel (Alex Etewut).

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The best free typefaces of 2017: Luc's selection

This is my own selection of the best free typefaces published in 2017, grouped by category. The list will grow until December 31, 2017.

Text typefaces:

Sans typefaces: Spartan MB (Matt Bailey). Vision (Daniel Iglesias). Twelve styles. Barlow (Jeremy Tribby). D-DIN (Charles Nix for Monotype and Datto Inc). Finally a totally free high quality DIN. Aino (Anton Koovit). The official font of the Estonian government. Wavehaus Sans (Graham Paterson). Attractive (Ani Petrova and Botio Nikoltchev). This became commercial in 2019. Agane (Danilo de Marco). Illuma (Alfredo Marco Pradil).

Rounded sans typefaces:

Type systems: IBM Plex (Sans, Serif, Mono) (Mike Abbink and Bold Monday). The new IBM corporate font.

Art deco typefaces: Bardo (Tano Veron). Cocosignum (Corsivo Italico and Maiuscoletto) (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini). Based on 1930s Italian art deco.

Hipster typefaces: Naive (Felicia Rotert). A color font with hipster trimmings.

Script typefaces: Signato (Eimantas Paskonis). Graffismo (Mathew Prada, Cassette Type Foundry). Javacom (Youssef Habchi). Antro Vectra (Youssef Habchi).

Calligraphic typefaces: Beresta (Pavel Drakunov). A semi-uncial for Latin and Cyrillic.

Brush typefaces:

Sketched, Layered or Poster typefaces: Integrada (Jorge Navajas).

Blackletter typefaces: Russell's Fraktur (Russell Hombo). Schulze Werbekraft (Peter Wiegel). A revival of a 1926 design by Arthur Schulze. Abuse (Valentino Coppi).

Dingbats and ornaments:

Programming fonts: Minimal Mono (Peter Olschinsky). League Mono (Tyler Finck). Lekton Code (Luciano Perondi and his students at ISIA Urbino). This is an adaptation of Lekton (2007).

Garalde typefaces:

Display typefaces: Ascardi Sans (Augusto Siccardi). AO Grotesk (Peter Olschinsky). Sac Prairie (Stephen French). Rotulista (Sam Bumbalo). Bola Ocho (Fernando Haro). Broad Mono (Brandon Shields). Barrow (Szonja Balint). Adiva (Ofir Shavit). Bourbon Grotesque (Jeremy Vessey). Cheque (Mirela Belova, Fontfabric).

Variable fonts: Decovar (David Berlow, Type Network). Jabin (Frida Medrano). A blackletter beauty.

Slab serif typefaces:

Copperplate:

Wood type revivals: Borough Grotesk (Lewis McGuffie). An all caps shaded sans typeface that could vaguely be classified under wood type revivals.

Letterpress emulation:

Didone typefaces: Regattia (Bruno Saez Lopez). See also here.

Fashion mag typefaces:

Revivals: Renner (Owen Earl, Indestructible Type). A free Futura revival, from scratch! Marvin Visions (Mathieu Triay). After the avant-garde classic Marvin (1969, Michael Chave).

Stencil typefaces: Riks and Riks Negative (Sindre Bremnes).

Multilingual typefaces: Awami Nastaliq (Peter Martin for SIL). Alkalami (Becca Hirnsberger). For Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger.

Wonderful, adorable, refreshing typefaces: Oi (Kostas Bartsokas). Fetamont (Linus Romer, 2014-2017). A 32-font tour de force with parametrized letters, including a neat "randomize" feature.

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