Wrapping up the year we’ve got just a few items left to bring to your attention: New fonts from Alias, Emtype, Harbor Type, Sudtipos, and TypeTogether, as well as an interview with type historian and fellow FontShop editor Ferdinand Ulrich.

Now at FontFont’s 25th Anniversary, we celebrate Erik Spiekermann’s formative work and reexamine FF Meta®—his most prodigious family and a truly founding member of the FontFont library. FF Meta has kept its youth through the years, owning to the fact that certain things never go out of fashion.

We’ve got a lot to be thankful for. You, our readers, and all the fantastic foundries we work with, and each other. As we are around the corner into the holiday season, we just felt we ought to say thanks. We couldn’t exist without you. And now for your regularly scheduled newsletter:

Tantalizing full-featured scripts from Laura Worthington and Sudtipos, plus Dalton Maag tests our notions of what the geometric sans should look like, and more.

Monotype revisits Eric Gill’s classic works, producing a unified superfamily with better forms, expanded glyph coverage, compatible weights, and fonts better suited to today’s rendering environments. We happily present: Gill Sans Nova, Joanna Nova, and Joanna Sans Nova.