typeface – Dave Kellam

Capucine typeface released

Capucine Sample

Presenting a wonderful new typeface from Alice Savoie, entitled Capucine, available exclusively from Process Type Foundry. The typeface is available in both traditional format and for use on the web.

Capucine defies traditional categorization, it sits in a genre we are drawn to as users of type: a face with distinct personality able to straddle the worlds of both text and display with ease.

I had the honour of knowing both Alice and Nicole Dotin (from Process Type) in my year at Reading and love that Capucine has finally reached a publication point. Capucine looked beautiful three years ago, but I imagine the perfectionist in Alice wanted everything to be just right. Congrats to both Alice and Process Type on the release. I look forward to using the typeface at some point in the near future.

The Titillium typeface project

Titillium sample

Titillium is an open typographic font and the subject of a didactic course project at Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino.

The aim of the project is the creation of a collective fonts released under OFL to be promoted and shared through a web platform. Each academic year, a dozen of students are working on the project developing and solving problems. The type designers interested in the amendment or revision of Titillium are invited to cooperate or develop their own variants.

Skolar

David BÅ™ezina has officially released Skolar, a typeface designed for multilingual, scholarly publications.

New Deal Typeface

While working on the title sequence for Public Enemies, Research Studios created a a bespoke typeface for the New Deal era based on WPA posters from the time period.

Layered Fonts

FF Dingbats 2 is reworked and updated to reflect current technology. It also makes use of OpenType features that allow each pictogram to be treated a series of layers that can be coloured independently.

Malabar

Dan Reynolds has released Malabar, an oldstyle serif typeface designed for extended reading. He also posted an article about it over at iLT. The font is available in six weights from Linotype.