The Week in New Type

A Roundup of Newly Announced Fonts. This time: T.26, Linotype, MyFonts

In this edition there’s a bit of new font activity out there, as typefounders vye for your hard-earned (and budgeted) font dollar. T.26 brings us some nifty sans-serif and display and and a townful of human-silhoutte glyphs, Linotype graces us with handwriting grace and Sci-Fi goodness, and MyFonts has scripts that announce that they are indeed ready for thier close-up.

T.26’s November Font Showcase

T.26 leads off this time with fonts from thier November Font Showcase. Featured are five fonts: Cheek – in four weights, Roman and Oblique – for $59, Sav – a display font – for $29, and Satellite (in three weights) for $39, all by Chris Risdon; Antititled Basic by Fulvio Bisca – a sans serif in four weights and Roman/Italic styles – for $109; and Eastend, a font made up of human silhouettes in various activites, by Kaptiza, for $39. Pictured is a few glyphs from Eastend.

The whole of T.26’s November Font Showcase can be viewed by following this link.

Linotype LinoLetter

This month’s LinoLetter has a couple of font features; Ex Ponto, by Jovica Veljovic, based on what Linotype calls the rhythm of the designer’s handwriting, and a “Sci-Fi Value pack” of five fonts including ITC Belter and Linotype Orbit (illustrated), priced at USD $29. Also featured are a connection to Linotype’s Cyrillic range; an article on type systems, and a link to charts of Linotype’s best-loved fonts.

Surf over to the latest LinoLetter using this link.

MyFonts

MyFonts this month is all about the decorative, the lush, and the script. From the refined Royal Script (pictured) to Sloop, Sterling Script, and fashionable attitudes such as Fashyon and Mecheria, there’s enough swashes for a thousand buckles.

Frankly, these fonts are adventurous and intriguing – they ought to be seen to be believed. And, just in time for holiday designing – it just isn’t the holidays with script fonts livening up the place somewhere.

Get a gander at MyFonts’ Elegant Script Fonts at this link.