Each FontFont release is newsworthy in its own right, but there is something especially momentous about this one: four brand new families, each one very different from the others; new styles for three of our most popular typefaces; and a dozen expertly crafted OpenType releases that breathe new life into FontFont classics. Scroll on for the overview and see more samples and PDFs in the FontFeed.

FF Tisa

While earning an MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, Slovenian designer Mitja Miklavcic set out to design a softer and a more dynamic version of a slab serif typeface. He succeeded, earning the Type Directors Club’s highest honor: “Certificate of Excellence in Type Design” for 2007.

FF Tisa has a tone that suits the casual fare of magazines and advertising as well as the more serious content of newspapers and annual reports. The Pro version adds support for Turkish and Central European languages.

FF Pitu OT

As an editorial designer, Lukasz Dziedzic often creates new typefaces to fill a need in whatever job is on his desk. This is how FF Pitu was born, a headline face for the Polish weekly “Europa”. With a lowercase that sits somewhere between a Didone italic and a copperplate script, FF Pitu is almost indescribable. Its high contrast and blade-shaped sharp stroke endings are slightly softened by generous calligraphic loops with “foxtail” terminals. The three-weight family includes a set of swash capitals, small caps, decorative ligatures, and CE characters in the Pro version.

FF Cube

Despite its rigid rectangular structure evident on first glance, FF Cube is thoughtfully curved and angled in all the right places, helping it work equally well in text as it does in industrial-strength headlines. FF Cube is available in Condensed, Expanded, and Extra Expanded, in addition to its base width.

FF Nuvo

During a stay in Paris, French magazines with their elegant, extravagant appearance inspired Siegfried Rückel to create a typeface of his own. FF Nuvo has a soft, calligraphic touch with a set of alternates (a, g, k, s, and y) that offer stylistic versatility.

The best way to explore FF Nuvo's form and function is by using one of the full-featured OpenType fonts themselves. FF Nuvo OT Medium is a free download for a limited time.

Free offer no longer available but you can still test and purchase FF Nuvo OT Medium.

FF Clan Italic

With six widths at seven weights each and now the addition of corresponding italics, FF Clan is the most comprehensive FontFont family. The 84 styles of contemporary sans serif versatility are also available in a Pro version with Turkish and CE support.

FF Milo 3

Mike Abbink, one of the FontFont library’s most accomplished designers, has extended the light end of his FF Milo family. Like other hairline typefaces that have come before, FF Milo Light, Extralight, and Thin offer new possibilities for elegant display settings.

FF Daxline Italic OT

To create FF Daxline, FontFont veteran Hans Reichel reworked his hugely popular FF Dax into a cleaner, more mature text face. Now that it has italics, FF Daxline is ready for anything you can throw at it. FF Daxline Pro is a truly international product with support for CE, Turkish, Greek, and Cyrillic.

FF Atma Serif OT

The story of FF Atma Serif was first told in an interview with designer Alan Greene for FontShop’s Font magazine. The OpenType release of this rich book serif enhances its usability, unlocking easy access to its three sizes of small caps and correlating punctuation. The single Book Roman style, for example, required 15 fonts in its legacy formats. Those glyphs are now compiled in a single, efficient OpenType font.

FF Clifford OT

Inspired by 18th century English type, FF Clifford is steeped in tradition and blessed by Akira Kobayashi’s masterful touch. Once relegated to less manageable legacy formats (TrueType and PostScript), this gorgeous text serif is now given the treatment it deserves as a full-featured OpenType set. Small caps, ligatures, and figure sets are easily accessible via your OpenType menu or palette. Go Pro to set type in Turkish and Central European languages.

FF Bastille Display OT

FF Super Grotesk OT
OpenType enables easy access to the distinctive ligatures and alternates (a and g) that set “East Germany’s Futura” apart from other geometric sans serifs.

FF Transit OT
The OpenType release adds tabular and oldstyle figures to FF Transit Print and combines all the useful transportation icons into one font.

FF Cartonnage OT
Notice that the ‘S’s and ‘T’s aren’t the same? Switch on the Contextual Alternates feature in this new OT release to limit the appearance of repeating letter shapes and emulate a natural stamped effect.

FF Parable OT
Christopher Burke’s low-contrast text face is optimized for small print, with thoughtful details that only a PhD in Typography could craft. Now that it’s available in OpenType, it’s optimized for humans too!

FF Magda Clean OT

FF Dax Pro

FF Schmalhans OT, Pro

FF Tag Team Min

FontFont Language Extensions

As we continue to expand the capabilities of classic FontFonts, we’re adding support for more languages too. The best way to get access to these new character sets is to go OpenType, but you can get them separately in legacy formats as well. For more information on language support see this handy table of all the OpenType FontFonts.

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Font used in title graphic: FF Nuvo.

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