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New release from Sandrine Nugue: Delusse, a spiky-soft response to Vendôme, one of the most iconic French typefaces of the twentieth century.
James Mosely's lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered every year to students in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. These were recorded in 2020-21, and are now available for anyone to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh8Q6TpPxtgxSG6DEuOrH9iKx9bh6Pr7G
New work by Christian and @greg@typo.social for Aftonbladet, a Swedish media outlet, with art direction by Anna Thurfjell. Cae study here:
https://commercialtype.com/custom/nameplate_for_aftonbladet
More on Anna's thinking here:
https://annathurfjell.com/work/brand-refresh-of-swedens-largest-news-brand/
Greg created a variable version of the logotype for the early stages of the design process, because like many clients we didn't know exactly what we wanted, but we would know it when we saw it.
New in our news section, Caren @litherland@typo.social interviewed Shiva Nallaperumal about Delegate, how he came to type design, and his studio November: https://commercialtype.com/news/shiva_nallaperumals_path_to_delegate
Thomas will be speaking next week at BITS11, the Brand Identity and Typography Symposium in Bangkok.
NEW RELEASE: Jargon, a new condensed headline typeface in seven weights by Thomas Bouillet.
NEW RELEASE! @greg@typo.social Gazdowicz has added a Display family to his multi-modal Terza collection, adapting it for tighter leading, with shortened ascenders and descenders, and with tighter tracking for punchy headlines.
NEW RELEASE! Focal by Greg Gazdowicz is an unusual kind of revival. Rather than bringing particular typeface back to life, Focal captures the particular quality of a lost era of print production: the 1970s, when the hot-metal era gave way to phototypesetting, and type as a whole lost some of its sharpness.
Along with the new site, we have some new releases.
Align by @greg@typo.social Gazdowicz is a variable text family that explores flatness in service of creating a dense, readable texture. As the family gains weight, the serifs get shorter until they disappear completely.
https://commercialtype.com/catalog/align
Read more about the ideas and process behind the family, and see some of Greg's inspirations, in this essay by @litherland@typo.social
https://commercialtype.com/about/collections/align
NEW RELEASE: Terza by @greg@typo.social Gazdowicz, a text face for each stage in the life of a piece of text.
https://commercialtype.com/catalog/terza
Today we launched a minisite showing Terza in action, with @litherland@typo.social editing "Static Screen" by @jess@phire.place
https://terza.commercialtype.com
Design by Jonny Sikov, development by Tom Conroy, illustrations by Simone Noronha.