Typefave

Sweet Deals on Fonts.

[typefave]

50% Off Realtime Rounded by Juri Zaech Until July 15th.

Digging this...

Information displays have an aesthetic of their own. Functional design where transmission of information is key — and best in real time. The Realtime Rounded typeface is not meant to recreate the appearance of those applications, instead it takes inspiration from them. The result is a technical yet friendly design with details that serve function and visual impact alike. Its soft edges apply warmth to the otherwise rather technical appearance.

As a monospaced typeface it lends itself to tabular designs, sturdy columns and tidy layouts. Nevertheless Realtime comes with a feature for setting continuous text — a proportional design employable through OpenType — it further comes in five weights, from light to black, and with a character set that covers over 200 latin languages.

Realtime Rounded is the soft companion to the standard Realtime Typeface which is available separately.

[typefave]

40% Off Chiaveettieri by Kostic Until May 9th, 2015.

Low-contrast, tall x-height... Swell new humanist-inspired serif typeface for setting text/copy.

Chiavettieri draws inspiration from Humanist types, marked by low contrast between thick and thin strokes and the angle of stress in the bowls of letters. On the other hand, generous x-height, clean angled serifs and sharp cuts in the ball terminals suggest a more contemporary look. All these characteristics make it a robust, well balanced, legible typeface ideally suited for book text, editorial and publishing, as well as web and screen text. With distinct Italics, small capitals, complete set of superior lowercase (Latin), oldstyle and lining figures (each in tabular and proportional widths), ligatures, fractions, superior and inferior characters – Chiavettieri is equipped for proper typography.

[typefave]

50% Off Volte by Indian Type Foundry Until April 20th, 2015.

Gotham meets Soleil meets Proxima meets... :) A solid interpretation of the contemporary geometric sans, Volte’s true personality – like most in this class – shine through the lowercase characters more so than the caps... Which all sort of blur together across similar typefaces.

Worth a look!

Graphic designers always search for new geometric sans faces appropriate for our times. ITF is pleased to present them with Volte. Including the five most essential font weights (Light–Bold), Volte Latin differentiates itself from the geometric sans pack through its simplification and reduction. For a geometric sans, Volte’s letters are very open. Some letters appear constructed, but they all retain the necessary geometric and monolinear spirt. Volte’s openness increases its legibility, too. Coupled with its clear style, this helps make Volte Latin an effective workhorse typeface.

[typefave]

84% Off Beauchef by Latinotype Until May 9th, 2015.

Beauchef is a sans serif typeface, originally created to meet the needs of the Center for Mathematical Modeling, University of Chile. With very hard and optical compensation few strokes, Beauchef is drawn with a geometry that no tranza too with optical and perceptual compensation laws. The drawing then corresponds to a not very cheerful physiognomically typography, but gives us a very particular idiosyncrasies of the way. Finally, Beauchef is a typeface that is as tough as advanced mathematics, but as readable, clear and accurate as the numbers themselves. A typeface that is as edgy as the amazing math projects, but so conservative, quiet and respectful, as clients who need their services. It is as colorful as the bulky formulas with working mathematicians, yet so lowly as the final figure that the results delivered.

[typefave]

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2014

Typographica have posted their favourite fonts of 2014.

Always look forward to digging into the annual “best of” by the folks over at Typographica.

Highlighted among their faves are a couple of really swell open-source fonts worth checking out – if you haven’t already.

Cooper Hewitt – Chester Jenkins

Source Serif – Adobe

[typefave]

90% Off Zigfrid by Borutta Until May 4th, 2015.

The Zigfrid family was made after my visit to Deutschland and impression of old typography on the streets of Berlin. Zigfrid contains 5 different styles with a geometric, “trendlist” feel.

[typefave]

30% Off Rayuela by PampaType Until April 15th, 2015

Rayuela (Spanish for ‘Hopscotch’) is inspired in the ludic atmosphere of literature by Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar. The type family was designed between 1999 & 2000 during two European postgraduate courses: MA in typeface design, University of Reading (UK), and later at the ANRT, atelier national de recherche typographique (Nancy, FR). The challenge was to design a letterform that could create an informal atmosphere while still being comfortably readable. Rayuela was PampaType’s first multi-style family. Since then other families of the foundry (such as Borges, Arlt, or Perec) have followed a similar spirit, that is building a system whose personality relies more in variety than in a rigid consistency.

[typefave]

83% Off Muller by Fontfabric Until April 9th, 2015.

The very first sketches of Muller were made about four years ago. In the process they changed to the point where they had nothing in common with the original idea. As it is with most work we do, when we seek perfection, changes are inevitable. The family consists of 20 weights, raging from Thin to Heavy with matching Italics. This font family is suited for everything, raging from advertising, packaging, editorial and branding, to web and screen projects. It was specifically designed with a wider structure for better appearance in small sizes and the extra attention to the detail was needed for the big sizes. We managed to find the right balance for the perfect universal font family. Muller comes with a complete range of figure options, including proportional and old style figures, each in its tabular version. It also includes advanced typographic features such as ligatures, fractions, alternate characters, case-sensitive forms, superscripts and subscripts.

[typefave]

50% Off TV Nord by Elsner+Flake Until April 16th, 2015.

Swell, no-nonsense sans in the vein of Franklin/News Gothic, (The regular width brings to mind Benton Sans as well.) but packing a nice dual-width punch for increased versatility.

[typefave]

50% Off Quantum by Indian Type Foundry Until April 27th, 2015.

A poor-man’s Idlewild?

A very friendly-looking sans, Quantum Latin is Hitesh Malaviya’s first published typeface for the Latin-script. Its five styles are very, very wide, but the letterforms do not look too technical. Stroke endings are vertical, like in a humanist sans. Don’t overlook the tails on ‘K,’ ‘Q,’ ‘R,’ and ‘k!’

[typefave]

60% Off Dimor by Nine Font Until April 26th, 2015.

Yep.

Dimor is a modern display type family with 6 styles. Specially designed for headlines and short sentences.

[typefave]

50% Off Eveleth by Yellow Design Studio Until April 26th, 2015.

Eveleth from Yellow Design Studio is a premium high-resolution letterpress family with exceptional realism and vintage charm. It features 3 different sub-families each with its own unique printed texture. Each sub-family offers six distress options per letter and 3 options for all other characters allowing incredible control and customization. Bonus “spurs” have been included in every weight to add retro flair. Other features include a complimentary Thin weight, a shadow layer, a set of funky icons, a collection of useful shapes and emblems, and clean (non-distressed) versions. The font package includes character maps for the Icons and Shapes plus instructions for adding spurs.

[typefave]

50% Off Tropen by Ahmet Altun Until April 24th, 2015.

Another from the "mixed bag of hand-rendered" type dept.

Tropen Font Family comes in one weight with six different types of styles but compatible at the same time with each other. All fonts are hand-maden. It can be accessed to the extras with the standard keyboard codes which makes the use of font files very practical and easy. Tropen Font Family was designed carefully to create elegant works. It would be a perfect choice to design posters, affiches, logos, t-shirt and magazine prints, eye-pleasing typographic designs and more.

[typefave]

50% Off Korb by JCfonts Until March 31st, 2015.

A swell little rounded/condensed/mono-linear sans here... A poor-man's DIN rounded, albeit with limited styles. Dig the alternate options.

Korb is a rounded sans serif family of four styles. It features a narrow geometric construction inspired by DIN letter shapes along with more unusual details like open counters and smooth connections between shoulders and stems. This makes the family suitable for a variety of applications, from corporate design to signalization. The fonts, provided in OpenType format, include diacritics for most European languages, a set of arrows and a variety of OpenType features like stylistic alternates, case-sensitive forms, tabular figures, etc. Check the pdf specimen in the gallery tab for more info.

[typefave]

80% Off Diara Pro by Mint Type Until April 20th, 2015.

Functional slab serif, very much in the vein of Adelle... On the cheap for now.

Diaria started as a project in Typeface Architecture for Master in Advanced Typograghy at EINA, Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona, a course tutored by Laura Meseguer and Íñigo Jerez Quintana. Later it has developed into Diaria Pro, an extensive typeface including Cyrillic script, small caps, and various OpenType features. Diaria Pro is a low-contrast serif typeface designed as a primary text face for the newspapers. Its large x-height and static exteriors allow comfortable reading in narrow columns, and calligrafic counters as well as dynamic serifs add humanist detail to overall perception and incline contrast axis without affecting interletter counterforms. Besides extensive language support, Diaria Pro includes various OpenType features: ligatures, discretionary ligatures, small caps, 6 sets of digits, superiors, inferiors, fractions, ordinals, upper-case punctuation, and some language-specific features.

[typefave]

85% Off Betm by Typesketchbook Until April 22nd, 2015.

A new geometric sans with a technical – but approachable – feel.

[typefave]

80% Off Cavita by Tipotype Until March 12th, 2015.

Cavita typeface is a mix between both grotesque and calligraphic models: regulars have a rough grotesque spirit; while the italics where inspired in calligraphic gestures. All of these details are reinforced with an inverted modulation (horizontals strokes are thicker than usual). The italics seem to move away from the traditional concept of type system, but work very well along side. This typeface has very particular shapes and rhythm, it’s different and identifiable from the rest, making it a very good option to use on every piece of design.