Our journey to uncover the best type from emerging design hotspots around the globe brings us to Argentina this month, where Sudtipos is setting the standard for South American type design. Alejandro Paul’s work with collaborators like local lettering artist Angel Koziupa has yielded script fonts that dance on the page, defying the conventional limitations of digital type. Also new on FontShop.com: fresh releases from Primetype and Emigre.

Brisa™

Script fonts with an authentic human touch are surprisingly rare. We posted our favorite handwritten type on the FontFeed a few months ago, and Brisa certainly deserves a spot on that list. With two variations for most lowercase letters, Paul and Koziupa’s Brisa successfully emulates handwriting that is either connected, printed, or a natural mix of both. For a similar look but with the rough contour of pen on paper, see Tiza.

Habano ST™

This heavy, compact script is the stuff of ’70s paperback novels and hand painted signs.

Herencia™

Diego Giaccone’s elegant hand-drawn calligraphy can hearken back to the olde world or feel completely new — it’s up to you.

Amorinda™

Another Koziupa original, Amorinda can scream wildly or blend in to make any design more human. With its versatile character and a complete set of alternates, Amorinda is the perfect display face for everything from product branding to signage.

Plumero™

The disciplined elegance of traditional calligraphy is replaced with the fresh, joyful swashes of youth. Attractive and care-free, Plumero will reward any typesetter who gives it the space to play.

Mobley™

Mobley was inspired by a 1960s jazz album which featured Wayne Stettler’s Neil Bold, a heavy display face with odd counters and cuts. Expanding on Stettler’s ideas, Mobley constitutes a brand new typographic whole molded around the original.

Download Mobley Serif Condensed now »

Romy™

Romy borrows aspects of lettering from comic strips, graffiti, greeting cards, and refrigerator notes.

PTL Skopex™

Andrea Tinnes’ extensive text family has received plenty of praise, appearing in Eye magazine and Typographica’s Fonts of the Year. Joining the rare and coveted group of serif/sans suites, PTL Skopex is somewhere between the curvaceousness of humanist types and the bluntness of geometric sans serifs. It is a unique European gothic, capable of carrying serious text without boring the reader.

PTL Highbus™

A versatile alternative to headliners like Impact, Ralph du Carrois’ family is compact and powerful but not stark and dated.

PTL Sadgirl™

Abandoning the mechanical nature of modern type, PTL Sadgirl’s detail and decoration recalls antique roman serifs.

Malaga™

Xavier Dupré is a prolific type designer, creating unique work for FontFont®, Font Bureau®, and Emigre®. Malaga may be his most practical design yet, but despite being tamer than his other typefaces it still reveals the Dupré touch — in its ingenious combination of curve and angle, right down to his trademark 'a'. Malaga is a contemporary serif that works quite well with its Emigre sister Vista Sans™.

Punchcut presents
The Typophile Film Fest 4, SF
in association with FontShop

The Typophile Film Festival 4 is best described as a three-hour party centered around an unequaled one-hour presentation. The short films — hailing from Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Canada and the US — create a visual mashup of motion design, typographic animation and short stories. This is the fourth such festival. It includes broadcast motion design, documentaries and typographic eye candy from Trollbäck + Company, Strange Attractors, Heebok Lee, Nick Shinn, Juan Leguizamon and others.

Details
Date: Thursday, October 25
Doors: 8–11pm
Film Fest: 8:30–9:30pm
Admission: $12 — Reserve tickets now

For location and transportation info, visit the FontFeed.

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Fonts used in title graphic: Milk Script™, La Portenia™.

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