Type Releases — TypeDrawers

Michelangelus typeface from the Vatican

michele casanova — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:41:13 +0000

Michelangelus is a typeface designed by Studiogusto for Fabbrica di San Pietro in Vaticano, licensed to and distributed by Microsoft.

There is no variable font version.
As one would expect from the Vatican, it includes all the crosses specified by Unicode
The slant of the cursive version seems excessive to me compared to the slant of the letters in the document signed by Michelangelo (though this is likely a matter of taste).
I would have preferred an open font license.

Vatican: Press release
Studiogusto: Website
Microsoft: Font family - Download

My latest resurrection, Pencilings, 1885

Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:24:12 +0000

Here's a neat Victorian confection, back from the dead! This is going into a new design kit that I hope to release by the end of the year. The decorations are from Schelter & Giesecke's "Allerlei Zierat" and will be included as well. I'd love to hear your feedback! I've also made a little video about it.

New typeface release for Halloween, Dez Alt Occult

Chris Lozos — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:16:11 +0000

Dez Alt Occult, at ILT:

https://fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/dezcom/dez-alt-occult

Dez Nordekis just released through ILT

Chris Lozos — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:30:02 +0000

Finally releasing again. Here is one, more to come:
https://fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/dezcom/dez-nordekis

Fillmore

Craig Eliason — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 05:44:59 +0000

Fillmore is now available from Teeline Fonts.

This font was inspired by my research in recent years on the Auriol types from the first few years of the twentieth century, which culminated in an article in Printing History. Besides French art nouveau design, other influences include biomorphic Surrealist art, Isamu Noguchi sculpture and furniture, and 60s psychedelia like light shows and Lava Lamps.

Though its blobs seem casual, I was careful to arrange the weight to boost letter coherence, resemble familiar patterns, and even out the color. As a consequence of that care, the regular weight works (perhaps surprisingly) well for running text at smaller sizes:

New Tiro Typeworks website and type releases

John Hudson — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:28:54 +0000

This morning, we finally hit the big red button and launched the website that we have been working on for, well, it feels like forever but records shown it is actually still less than a decade. Just.

Please visit and take a look around.

There’s an introductory article that gives an overview of the site, explains our font licensing/pricing model, and provides a bit of a hint about our content plans.

To coincide with the website launch, we’re publishing some new or extended typefaces:

Laconia Cherokee is a brand new design, initiated by Ross Mills as an extension of his Laconia family, and completed by Paul Hanslow. It is available under our pay-what-you-want model for indigenous language fonts.
Brill 5.00 is the latest version of the modern book type we created for the Dutch academic publisher Brill. The new version has been extended to support all the Cyrillic characters in Unicode, as well as some additional Latin and symbol characters. It is now available as a variable font for the first time.
Ross Mill’s Euphemia typeface has undergone a thorough refresh and extension, and is now available as a variable font. The UCAS subset fonts for Canadian indigenous syllabic writing systems are available under our pay-what-you-want model.

Other new releases are nearing readiness and will follow in the coming weeks. There is a subscription field in the site footer if you would like to receive email announcements.

Gentle Hands: A Handcrafted Script Font

JanetLanier — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:07:01 +0000

I created the Gentle Hands font because my own handwriting in my planner and journal was getting very shaky. The font is based on my own handwriting, only better. It has 313 glyphs and includes multilingual support. I'm a musician/composer so it was interesting to me as I was learning font making to find there are a lot of similarities between music and font making. I decided to write an article about it and posted it on my music website.

Arcaic, a modern sans serif with Roman roots

chaanes — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:23:48 +0000

I made this sans serif influenced partly by 4/5th century Roman inscriptions. Check it out: https://haanesfonts.fontdue.com

Ticker

Craig Eliason — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 05:31:34 +0000

Ticker is now available from Teeline Fonts.

It's a pixel font, guided by these ideas:

Lo Res and Hi Res options
Three weights are achieved simply by enlarging or reducing the pixels.
Strict modularity in letter shapes, but glyphs aren't monowidth, and sidebearings/kerning aren't restrained to the grid. So the compromises required of the forms are minimized, but it still evokes simpler technological displays
This is particularly novel: while the upright is built on a rectilinear grid, the italic is built on a hexagonal grid.
In addition to the circular dots of the standard fonts, there are also "tile" cuts which have square or hexagonal elements instead.

Collins music typeface for “The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition” songbook

Jeff Kellem — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:07:27 +0000

A bespoke music typeface I designed as Slanted Hall for the songbook The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition has recently been announced and named Collins. We first showed examples of the typeface and parts of the book at Camp Fasola in Alabama, 1 July 2025 and presented a class on the history of the book design. Surprised to see a queue waiting for autographs of the Collins Typeface Specimen 18"x12" poster. Nice to see the good reception and how important the book and design is to the community.

Project started in 2020. The ~500 pages of songs have been re-engraved to be released in September at the United Sacred Harp Musical Association 13–14 September 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA with a Forum about the book's revision at Emory University the day before, 12 Sep 2025, where I'll give a talk about the design.

The Sacred Harp songbook was first published in the mid-1800s. It's republished every 30 years or so. Since the community around the world tracks what songs are sung, they know which are popular and not. For each new edition, less popular songs are removed and new compositions are added. So, it's both a historical and a living book. The previous edition was in 1991.

Here's an NPR piece about the book last month (25 Jun 2025) and an AP did a series of pieces (that includes a nice video) at the end of May, though neither had info about the custom type design at that point.

A few sample engraved songs can be seen on the Sacred Harp Publishing Company's post from yesterday. Text typefaces in the book include Optima LT Pro by Hermann Zapf and Akira Kobayashi plus Miller Daily Two and Three by Matthew Carter.

This also hopefully is a sign that I'm reappearing a bit more after disappearing due to the pandemic and grief recovery. I'll be at TypeCon in two weeks. Also, carving out more time for type design and consulting work while helping lead the music society nonprofit ASMAC (American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers).

Ysabeau: A faithful sans companion to Garamond, now on Google Fonts

Christian Thalmann — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:01:46 +0000

Hi everyone,

I'm happy to announce that Google Fonts is now offering my Ysabeau family.

Ysabeau strives to bring you the familiar shapes and comfortable proportions of Garamond through the medium of a clean contemporary sans. Try it on your e-reader and never look back!

For those interested, the most up-to-date desktop version and the source files will always be available from the GitHub repository.

Thanks to everyone who helped me during the seven years of development, and thanks to Google Fonts for sponsoring said development.

Cheers, Christian

A verie bad fount.

Nick Shinn — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:21:47 +0000

Following up on this previous discussion, I’ve now published the typeface in question.

Auld English® has three novel contextual features (default long-s, pseudo-random effect for body-text letterpress mimickry, and “re-writing”), but I thought I’d focus on the re-writing here, as the design space for this was informed by John Hudson and Thomas Phinney, with their hard line on the inviolability of canonical text—which is why I’ve released the “Spell” versions of the typeface as a free experiment. In particular, the transliteration is quite plausible for most text, but makes a hash of proper names!

Wobniar - Variable color bitmap like font

mitradranirban — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 01:51:23 +0000

June is #pridemonth, and this month's #tinyfunfont is WOBNIAR, a variable colour pixel font having seven colours of #rainbow, dedicated to LGBTQIA+ community, as token of solidarity to their struggle world-wide.
https://fonts.atipra.in/tiny/wobniar.html

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Victor, a new typeface of medieval display capitals

Daniel Mitsui — Tue, 20 May 2025 17:12:47 +0000

I have recently completed a revised and expanded version of my typeface Victor.

This is a typeface of display capitals, whose outlines are filled with tiny plants and animals, in the style of medieval millefleur tapestries. All of these are based on my own hand-drawn calligraphy.

I have been working on this calligrphic/typographic project, on and off, for over a decade.

Available here: https://www.danielmitsui.com/00_pages/typefaces.html

Slogantee font design

Seco — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:59:28 +0000

My New font design
https://creativemarket.com/akropol/291458234-SloganTee-Uppercase-Font

amœbic color variable font version 0.001 is out

mitradranirban — Thu, 15 May 2025 07:10:27 +0000

amœbic is this month's offering of Tiny Fun Font series. These are limited character set font for having fun with color and/or variable font technology, created using free open source tools.

Here each character can degenrate into an identical amœba at SHAPE axis value of zero, OR takes shape of a full fledged letter form on reaching SHAPE axis value of 100.https://fonts.atipra.in/tiny/amœbic.html

TDC.71 Winner: Gofteh Typeface is Awarded the Certificate of Typographic Excellence

NoonFont — Sat, 03 May 2025 11:20:38 +0000

Gofteh Typeface is a Heavy display typeface With an artistic and self-expressive spirit!

Type Designer and Developer: Alireza Nematollahi

More details : NoonFont.com للمزيد من المعلومات

Goethe Typeface is designed in one weight and has multiple combinations and alternate letters.

By enabling Stylistic Set 1 and Dlig simultaneously in the Open type settings, other alternative combinations are available for connecting the teeth to “final ی ”.

Gofteh Typeface in use, Magazine layout

Gofteh is suitable for poster design, content creation, and display typography and short texts.

Type Designer and Developer: Alireza Nematollahi مصمم ومطوّر الخطوط

More details and purchase: NoonFont.com للمزيد من المعلومات

Hasti Typeface Winner of the 13th Granshan

NoonFont — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:17:50 +0000

The Hasti typeface won the Second Prize in the Arabic Fonts category at the 13th Granshan Type Design Competition (2024) (The judges, maintaining strict standards, did not award a First Prize in this category).

For more details visit: NoonFont.com

Hasti typeface is the result of mixing "Naskh" with "Nastaliq". "Naskh" is a practical version of Arabic script and "Nastaliq" is the top of the beauty of Persian script.

The Hasti typeface comes in two styles: Round and Sharp. Each style offers two dot variations: Classic and Round. By purchasing this font, you will receive a total of four font files.

In Hasti typeface, there are a few optional letter substitutions that you can type according to the guidelines provided within the package.

Hasti supports Arabic, Persian, and other subsets such as Kurdish and Urdu using the Hasti font package. For English letters, the Shrikhand font has been used.

From Social Media to Newspaper Headlines The Hasti typeface can be utilized in various promotional and display materials. It can be used to design Instagram posts, website banners, urban advertising, packaging, or even serve as the headline for a formal newspaper.

Type Designer and Developer : Moslem Ebrahimi

You can buy Hasti from: NoonFont.com

BlockBone variable Serif cum Blackletter font

mitradranirban — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:27:36 +0000

The serif letterforms are inspired by LibreBaskerville and the Blackletter form is based on UnifracturCook. The interpolation between them can be useful for intersting web animation

Oisac Color Variable Font created using a single variable component

mitradranirban — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:00:55 +0000

The font has 3 in built color pallette
It is inspired by LCD backlit clocks
It has two variable axis of Weight and angle and various masters are created by changing the single component which is used to create all the glyphs

New ATC Site

christian_avondaletype — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:34:26 +0000

Avondale Type Co. has just updated their branding and website. Feel free to check them out at avondaletypeco.com

Altamira is out & about

Drawcard — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:19:19 +0000

My debut font has launched, almost a year to the day I started work on it: Altamira, now available at YouWorkForThem!

See the evolution of the font here.

ON a Contemporary Typeface for Arabic Scripts!

Amir Mesbahi — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:31:50 +0000

ON: A Contemporary Typeface for Arabic Scripts!

I am excited to announce the release of my new typeface, ON a modern typeface that offers a fresh perspective on Perso-Arabic typography. Designed with versatility and clarity in mind, ON is ideal for a wide range of applications, from print media to digital interfaces.

Key Features:

Modern Aesthetics:
ON blends traditional elements with contemporary design, creating a typeface that feels both familiar and innovative.
Extensive Language Support:
ON supports multiple languages that use the Arabic script, including Persian, Kurdish, Urdu, Pashto, Turkish, Tajik, Kashmiri, Kyrgyz, and Uyghur, ensuring clear and effective communication across diverse linguistic contexts.
Advanced OpenType Features:
Equipped with a range of OpenType features, such as ligatures, stylistic alternates, and tabular numerals, ON gives designers the flexibility to craft precise and creative typography.

Availability:

ON is now available for licensing. To learn more and explore the typeface in detail, visit: https://noonfont.com/fonts/on

I look forward to seeing how ON enhances your typographic projects—feel free to share your experiences and feedback!

Thank you for watching it!
--{Amir Mesbahi}--

Skeena Indigenous

John Hudson — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:20:57 +0000

Skeena Indigenous is a family of indigenous-first fonts for North American languages using Latin-based orthographies, piublished by Microsoft under the Open Font License v1.1. This is something I have been working on with @Paul Hanslow for the past couple of years, based on our earlier Skeena typeface that was one of the Calibri-replacement candidates.

The fonts are now at the public beta stage.

You can read about the project in a short article I wrote about it for the Tiro website, or in a lot more detail in the project documentation.

My new font Kordak is now available for purchase

Vasil Stanev — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:45:02 +0000

https://www.myfonts.com/collections/kordak-font-vsf?queryId=undefined&index=universal_search_data&objectIDs=MTAwMzc0NV80MzUxMzlfMTc0MTM2MjI5OA

The Mell font family

JencelPanic — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:37:52 +0000

My first typeface is called Mell Sans and is available from myfonts and from my gumroad shop.

Mell Sans is the first release from the Mell Extended family, which will feature five more families --- Mono, Display, Constrast and Slab.

I've been working on this project for a long time. In fact, I asked for critique on this same forum some 7 years ago. But since then I drifted in many different directions --- I liked the faux-monospaced signage look, I like the humanistic playful look too, I also thought it looked really good in reverse contrast. It seems that only the peculiar raindrop-like shape of b and d remained from that version.

Then an idea came two years ago --- to create not one, but several different families for each look, and bind them all into one extended family.

Then, slightly later, I got another idea --- to merge all these families into one variable font.

These projects are largely a reality now, so I decided to start releasing my work, starting with Mell Sans --- which is a very legible sans-serif font with a distinct look. I use it on my website and I frequently get comments on how unique it looks. And it looks even better in print.

The family is on myfonts and gumroad, on Myfonts there is a promotion, and also some fonts are free.

V-Love - A tiny fun color variable font

mitradranirban — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:17:59 +0000

I am starting tiny fun font series, where I learn to make color and/or variable fonts using open source tools only and have fun in the process. The fonts are proof of concept and contains a very limited character set.

First in the series, I am releasing V-Love, a Caps only variable color font dedicated to month of Love, February. It has a custom variable axis LOVE which can be increased to make the characters more lovable.

Hello everyone!

michele casanova — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:57:33 +0000

I’m a font enthusiast, particularly drawn to typefaces under the Open Font License (Github).

In my spare time, I enjoy reviving historical fonts, focusing mainly on designs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some examples include DisSenso and Vulnus, as well as various decorative drop caps like Capo Bicolore. Since these aren’t exact replicas of the originals, I give them unique names.

I’ve also experimented with creating new fonts to explore specific features. For instance, Alma Virgo and Cane Nero were designed to test ligatures, while Mala Tempora Currunt delves into OpenType features to apply Meyer’s rules for Gothic script.

Cane Nero (means "Black Dog" in Italian, but means "Sing, Nero!" in Latin) with 'dlig' feature:

Mala Tempora Currunt with 'ss03' (r and d rules) and 'ss04' (overlapping rule) features:

While these projects are primarily experimental, I hope you’ll find something of interest in them.

Pesteh Perso-Arabic Typeface! (Official Font Release)

Amir Mesbahi — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 22:34:24 +0000

Hi everyone,

I am thrilled to share that my Perso-Arabic retail font, is now officially released!

PESTEH Perso-Arabic typeface is a personal and creative interpretation with a modern look that carries the visual and impression characteristics of the traditional #Nastaliq script. PESTEH strives to bring to the public a combination of traditional beauty and innovation. When classic and traditional calligraphy is combined with modern design.

with different bends and thicknesses as well as combining corners with delicate, streaming shapes, it gives a new impact and dynamism within the letters, whereas passing on the impression of ease to the open.

The idea of designing functional typefaces that aim to take the rich and important assets of Perso-Arabic calligraphy and look at them in a modern way started in 2014 with the #Iliya Font Kufic Style project.

And now, PESTEH is another typeface in this exploratory collection by Amir Mesbahi. After a few years of hiatus, it was produced in spring 2024 and its first version is currently being distributed.

Font project design and development process of PESTEH will continue! ✍️
Pistachio is called PESTEH in Persian!

For additional details and to make a purchase outside of Iran, kindly visit the https://fontiran.xyz/fonts/pesteh

Thank you for watching it!
--{Amir}--