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The best commercial typefaces of 2018: Luc's selection

This is my own selection of the best commercial typefaces published in 2018, grouped by category. The list will grow until December 31, 2018.

Text typefaces: Tara (Tania Alvarez). Cardinal (Jean-Baptiste Levée, Quentin Schmerber and Yoann Minet, Production Type). Reiher Headline (Ramiro Espinoza). Engria (Dave Rowland).

Sans typefaces: The Future Mono (Kris Sowersby). A mono version of Futura thanks to a great plastic surgeon. Graphik Wide (Christian Schwartz). Neometric (Dan Jones). In the geometric sans genre, slightly futuristic (but the future is now...). Brandon Grotesque Condensed (Hannes Von Doehren). The condensed version of his successful original from 2010. Ekster (Ilya Naumoff). A geometric sans. Fact (Alexandra Korolkova and Manvel Shmavonyan at Paratype). A serious extension of Frutiger in several directions. FS Koopman (Andy Lethbridge and Stuart de Rosario). Wozniak (Rodrigo Lopez Fuentes, Untype). Fieldwork (TipoType). In the geohumanist or homogeometric genre. Arzachel (Richard Olocco, CAST). A humanist sans. Acme Gothic (Mark Simonson). Cera Condensed + Compact Pro (Jakob Runge). Symphonie Grotesque (Frode Helland at Indian Type Foundry). Gilam (Ivan Petrov, Plamen Motev and Svetoslav Simov). Basier (Atipo). Clother (Julie Soudanne, Ilya Naumoff and Jérémie Hornus at Black Foundry). Upgrade (Petr van Blokland). Mont (Mirela Belova and Svetoslav Simov). Silta (Johannes Neumeier, Underscore).

Rounded sans typefaces: Space Show (David Engelby). For large size typography. Cobbler (Juri Zaech). Umba Soft (Anita Jürgeleit). Blauth (Sofia Mohr at Latinotype). Lumier Rounded (Dusan Jelesijevic). Point (Natanael Gama). Doughy (Teddy Derkert). Aristotelica (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli).

Type systems: Multiple (Alfonso Garcia, Latinotype). This large family contains Sans and Slab subfamilies. Vianova Slab Pro, Vianova Serif Pro, Vianova Sans Pro (Jürgen Adolph).

Art deco typefaces: Atrium (Patrick Seymour). Extraordinaire (David Jonathan Ross).

Hipster typefaces:

Script typefaces: Srikonitta script (Alde Saputro). Nougat Script (Aldo de Losa, Sudtipos).

Calligraphic typefaces: William Duke (Sukjana Almunandar). Malikon (Sukjana Almunandar). Aston Script (Teuku Riski Firmana). Calligraphunk (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini). Rapid Writing (Eduardo Recife). Pantera (Maximiliano Sproviero). Elisabetta Script (Seniors Studio). Britney (Sabina Irina Chipara). Conture Script (Mawns Greback). Bulgattie (Sukjana Almunandar). Karima (Merk Mansoon). Hasya d'Ellena (D.N. Rachmath).

Brush typefaces: Rabsy (Degi Kurniawan). Crush SVG (Sam Parrett), Sonder (Fenotype).

Sketched, Layered or Poster typefaces: Dr Slab (Ryoichi Tsunekawa). Ding. A great fattish cartoon font by Rodrigo Araya Salas, Andrey Kudryavtsev and Franco Jonas. Apnea (Michael Wallner). Schuss Sans CG Poster Black (Jochen Schuss). Lumiere (Jorge Cisterna and Bruno Jara). Rig Solid (Jamie Clarke). Biscotti (Juan Pablo de Gregorio). Papaia (Diego Sanz Salas).

Blackletter typefaces: Origen (Alex Camacho). Mezalia (Piotr Lukaszkiewicz). A modern bastarda. Pointyhead (Timothy Donaldson).

Dingbats and ornaments:

Programming fonts: Code Saver (Ryoichi Tsunekawa). Dita Grotesk Mono (Archetype Foundry). Clincher (Alexander Lubovenko).

Garalde typefaces: Heldane (Kris Sowersby). Hermann (2018). By Salvador Rodriguez and Diego Aravena.

Display typefaces: Conductor (Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stoessinger). Extenda (2018) is a thin-to-wide grotesque advertising or movie credit family with some of the DNA of Impact or Compacta. By Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli. Eurocine (Paulo Goode). A movie poster font in the style of Folio and Eurostile. TT Firs Neue (Philipp Nurullin, Ivan Gladkikh). Ulm Grotesk (Ilya Naumoff). A simplified sans, Bauhaus style. Formula Condensed (Mathieu Desjardins). Solomka Sans (Katja Renko and Igor Dekhtiarenko). Decoupe (Maria Carla Mazzitelli, Sudtipos). German expressionist. TT Nooks (Vika Usmanova and the TypeType team). Blacker (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli). Framboisier (Dorine Sauzet and Quentin Schmerber). Inspired by Marcel Jacno's nervous lettering. Borba Neu (Pedro Lobo). Saturday Night Interlock (Ricky Rinaldi). Roc Grotesk (Nikola Kostic). Elisetta (Lucia Ronderos, Sudtipos). A six-style font family for music text and notation. Faction (Shiva Nallaperumal). Ikanseeyouall (Swiss Typefaces). Fuse V2 Printed (Julia Martinez Diana and Salvador Rodriguez). DR Bulk (Daniel Reed).

Slab serif typefaces: Mokoko (Naïma Ben Ayed), released in 2018 by Dalton Maag. Radcliffe (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli). A Clarendon revival. Gambero (Typoforge). XXII Geom Slab (Lecter Johnson). Peckham (Daniel Hernandez, Latinotype). Sharp Slab (Lucas Sharp). Rival Slab (Olivier Gourvat).

Copperplate: Rizado Script (Nikola Kostic). Vibrant copperplate calligraphy. Speakeasy (Alejandro Paul). A type system built around a swashy copperplate calligraphic font, that includes sans, gothic, flare and modern styles.

Typewriter typefaces: Yorick (Matthieu Cortat). Ballinger Mono (Max Phillips). Inspired by Josef Müller-Brockmann's Candia (1970s) designed for Olivetti.

Letterpress emulation:

Didone typefaces: FS Ostro (Alessia Mazzarella at Fontsmith). Walbaum (Monotype's Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix, Juan Villanueva and Lynne Yun). A reimagined superfamily with 69 total fonts, in five optical sizes. Mort Modern (Riley Cran). A fantastic 56-style didone typeface family inspired by the lettering of Mortimer Leach.

Fashion mag typefaces: Ivy Mode (Jan Maack). Schnyder (2013-2018, Berton Hasebe and Christian Schwartz at Commercial Type). Made Bruno (Maxim Schepin). A fat decorative didone. Musetta (Atipo).

Revivals: Foundation Serif Didot (Henrik Kubel). Based on a 1939 typeface by Gunnar Biilmann Petersen. LD Renommée (Holger Königsdorfer, Lazydogs Type Foundry). After Jan van Krimpen's successful Romanée. Jamaica Script (Alex Ivanov, Vates Design). A Spencerian script reviving an alphabet of American penman Louis Madarasz. Gooper (Kyle Wayne Benson). After Cooper Black. Neue Plak (Linda Hintz and Toshi Omagari). A revival of Paul Renner's Plak (1928). Cunaeus (George Tulloch). A text typeface based on a roman by Ameet Tavernier (1551) and an italic by Robert Granjon (1565). Tory (Steve Matteson). A revival of Frederic Goudy's blackletter typeface Tory Text (1935). Intervogue (Richard Miller). Revival of Vogue (1929, Stephenson Blake). See also Intervogue Soft.

Stencil typefaces: November Stencil (Typotheque). Calton Stencil (Teo Tuominen). Issue (Pedro Lobo). Helios Antique and Helios Stencil (Felipe Sanzana and Salvador Rodriguez). This large old-and-modern sans family strikes the right balance. The 36 stencil styles are quiet and wonderfully subdued. Pressio Stencil (Max Phillips). Anaphora Stencil (Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli). Part of the larger bullet-proof typeface family Anaphora.

Variable fonts: UT Morph (Oscar Cobo and Wete). Based on Wim Crouwel's Nagasaki poster. Foreday (Pedro Leal).

Multilingual typefaces: ZT Anussaowaree (for Thai and Latin; by Theerawat "Aksornsanan" Pojvibulsiri). Jing Xi Hei Hair (Arphic). CF Panoptik (Haratzopoulos Panayiotis, Cannibal Fonts). A Greek descendant of Futura. Seol Sans (Minjoo Ham and the Monotype Design Team). Lafeef (Mostafa El Abasiry). DNP Shueitai (Dai Nippon Printing Co). Vocal (Ani Petrova). I could also have placed it in the sans list. Pure joy, especially in the heavier weights.

Wonderful, adorable, refreshing typefaces: No Molestar (Guillermo Vizzari and Yani Arabena). Mercurio SVG (Yai Salinas). A different kind of SVG font that marries mathematical cool with artistic flair. Bilbao (Mateusz Machalski). Guzi Warp (Ultra Kühl). Maquina (Leandro Castelao and Alejandro Paul). A Memphis-style color font.

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