Welcome to another edition of Fonts in Focus, our under-500-word reviews of great typefaces. Today, we focus on a recent release from Kostas Bartsokas of Foundry5. Evert is a large, thoroughly modern sans serif family that has been designed with a lot of thought to the details. It draws inspiration […]

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Welcome to the debut issue of Font Faces: the people behind the type. We ask type designers from around the globe the same five core questions (plus some potential follow-up or topical questions) and thus gain some insights into their working practices, their personalities and what makes them tick. Nick […]

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Sometimes I get a hankering to see someone use a good old Blackletter, spikey Fraktur, or rounded Textura that transports me back to medieval Europe when a printer’s digital handiwork was created with ten fingers. That Blackletter was anathema to the later movements of Modern European designers and typographers, so […]

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While trawling ILT for this month’s highlighted typeface, I was struck immediately by the elastic quality and irregular kinetic form of Art Grootfontein’s 2025 Gilway Paradox. The paradox is that it is not a beautiful nor an ugly face but a somewhat awkward one that excites something deep inside, reminding me of times of […]

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Slip cover, dust cover, or dust jacket — whatever you call it, and whether you’re the type to trash or treasure them — have you ever wondered what purpose they serve and when they were invented? In Europe, the first printed books were typically sold without covers! Printers were not also […]

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What typographers and designers want most in a font is a family that, under the right conditions, exudes a familiar yet distinctive voice. As I was scrolling around for this month’s selection, I found just that very face. It is a distinctive yet suggestive legacy with a “feeling” that is […]

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I have often heard type designers talk about the many years they spend developing a typeface. I would listen with awe and think, “That must have been a real challenge. It must be exquisitely crafted and probably a little bit groundbreaking too.” So it feels slightly absurd to admit that […]

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