Mixing the best of its older siblings, Ropa Mix is the new kid on the block, part of lettersoup’s. Ropa Type Family. With two free weights, you can try before you buy.

We’re opening up our typographical treasure trove this week and taking a look back at the highly unique and individual design that is FF Videtur™.

Berlin-based illustrator and font designer Ulrike Rausch designs fun handwriting and icon fonts under the font label LiebeFonts. Her most recent release, LiebeGerda, is a brush font that imitates perfectly a lively script. In this tutorial, I will show how the clever OpenType features of LiebeGerda are used for revamping the headlines of the German food magazine “Fischbrötchen Deluxe”.

What image do you have in mind when you hear the typeface name “Kabel”? Let me give away the main thesis of this article right away: There is not the Kabel typeface. Planning a revival of “Kabel” therefore raises the first question: Where do you begin? Between Rudolf Koch’s original design in metal type for the Gebrüder Klingspor Type Foundry in Offenbach am Main in 1927, their face-lift “Neu-Kabel”, various phototype resurrections, eminently Victor Caruso’s interpretation of Kabel for ITC, and Linotype’s digital version, lie several transitions in technology that caused changes in character sets, disproportions and new weight concepts. Marc Schütz discovered his own path in this conglomerate and presents a “Neue Kabel” that overcomes some of its historical burden.

Jim Ford’s latest type family takes retro-futuristic poster lettering of the twentieth century and recreates its various styles along a streamlined typographic continuum. It’s an odd concept, retro-futurism. Its depictions of the future show us an idyllic age of scientific achievement, clean and abundant energy, adventure, leisure, and general tidiness. Using the years as a reference, Posterama’s styles represent major art movements that defined letter shapes, Arts & Crafts, Bauhaus, and Art Deco to name a few.