The League of Moveable Type

Knewave

Tyler Finck — 2011-11-11

Knewave is bold, painted face. Get it? Git it.

Ostrich Sans

Tyler Finck — 2011-05-19

A gorgeous modern sans-serif with a very long neck. With a whole slew of styles & weights:

Dashed (thin)
Rounded (medium)
Ultra light
Normal
Bold (race track style double lines)
Black

Fanwood

Barry Schwartz — 2011-01-06

Based on work of a famous Czech-American type designer of yesteryear. The package includes roman and italic.

For more information about the typeface, read this Wikipedia article: [link]

Notes from Barry:

Fanwood Text roman and italic are the same as Fanwood but slightly darker and reduced in contrast; I tailored it to increase readability on my Amazon Kindle 3 e-book reader.

Linden Hill

Barry Schwartz — 2010-12-27

Linden Hill is a digital version of Frederic Goudy’s Deepdene. The package includes roman and italic.

League Script Number One

Haley Fiege — 2010-09-17

This ain’t no Lucinda. League Script #1 is a modern, coquettish script font that sits somewhere between your high school girlfriend’s love notes and handwritten letters from the ’20s. Designed exclusively for the League of Moveable Type, it includes ligatures and will act as the framework for future script designs.

Raleway

Matt McInerney — 2010-02-20

Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface, designed in a single thin weight. It is a display face that features both old style and lining numerals, standard and discretionary ligatures, a pretty complete set of diacritics, as well as a stylistic alternate inspired by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than it's neo-grotesque inspired default character set.

Prociono

Barry Schwartz — 2010-02-17

"Prociono" (pro-tsee-O-no) is an Esperanto word meaning either the star Procyon or the animal species known as the raccoon. It is a roman serif with blackletter elements.

Orbitron

Matt McInerney — 2009-12-03

Orbitron is a geometric sans-serif typeface intended for display purposes. It features four weights (light, medium, bold, and black), a stylistic alternative, small caps, and a ton of alternate glyphs.

Orbitron was designed so that graphic designers in the future will have some alternative to typefaces like Eurostile or Bank Gothic. If you’ve ever seen a futuristic sci-fi movie, you have may noticed that all other fonts have been lost or destroyed in the apocalypse that led humans to flee earth. Only those very few geometric typefaces have survived to be used on spaceship exteriors, space station signage, monopolistic corporate branding, uniforms featuring aerodynamic shoulder pads, etc. Of course Orbitron could also be used on the posters for the movies portraying this inevitable future.

Goudy Bookletter 1911

Barry Schwartz — 2009-10-12

Based on Frederic Goudy’s Kennerley Oldstyle.

Notes from Barry:

This font predates the League and is in the public domain.

A few words on why I think Kennerley Oldstyle is beautiful: In making this font, I discovered that Kennerley fits together tightly and evenly with almost no kerning. Thus the following words from Monotype specimen books are just: “[W]hen composed into words the characters appear to lock into one another with a closeness common in early types, but not so often seen in later-day creations.” These are letters that take command of the space around them; notice, for instance, the bowed shapes of the v and w.

Side note: One of the spec images includes public domain clipart from openclipart.org. Go visit! :)

League Gothic

Micah Rich, Caroline Hadilaksono — 2009-09-22

League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic #1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993, and since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.

We decided to make our own version, and contribute it to the Open Source Type Movement.

Sorts Mill Goudy

Barry Schwartz — 2009-09-04

A 'revival' of Goudy Oldstyle and Italic, with features including small capitals (in the roman only), oldstyle and lining figures, superscripts and subscripts, fractions, ligatures, class-based kerning, case-sensitive forms, and capital spacing. There is support for many languages using latin scripts.

Blackout

Tyler Finck — 2009-06-19

Eats holes for breakfast lunch and dinner. Inspired by filling in sans-serif newspaper headlines. Continually updated with coffee and music. Makes your work louder than the next person’s.

Comes in two styles: Midnight (solid) & 2AM (reversed).

Notes from Tyler:

I made this font in 2008 with Illustrator and Font Lab Studio, 
both of which are wonderful. This is not based on any other 
font and was created from scratch, although I'm sure there are 
similarities to other fonts out there (purely coincidental). 

It was created for my own personal portfolio (I tend to do that) 
because I didn't want to simply fill in the holes of some favorite 
bold fonts. "Midnight" came first, but then I realized that I was 
tired of reversing the font color and adding a background to that 
font, so "2 AM" was born.

These fonts are not perfect. They are missing symbols and 
characters. But they are usable, and in my opinion, very fun. 
When using "2 AM" insert an underscore "_" to maintain a solid
background.

Chunk

Meredith Mandel — 2009-05-24

Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use.

Sniglet

Haley Fiege — 2009-02-10

A rounded display face that’s great for headlines. It comes with a full character set, so you can type in Icelandic or even French!

Junction

Caroline Hadilaksono — 2009-02-04

Junction is a a humanist sans-serif, and the first open-source type project started by The League of Moveable Type. We're expanding Junction to include additional non-English characters. We also plan to expand Junction to include different weights, to make a complete family.