Anna Pizzey

Born in the lab as a research experiment, Reboot is great for that certain 70’s sci-fi need. It’s filled with the angular curves of the technology of yore, with full diacriticals for Eastern European Cold War era galactic display copy. It’s the first font of a series of research experiments, varying from rectilinear to ovoid.

Nomada Slab has a strong personality. The clear structure of the characters guarantee impeccable legibility in small sizes, and the solid slab serifs help guiding the readers’ eyes along the lines. In display use Nomada Slab creates forceful titles and headlines. Being derived from Nomada Sans, it falls in the category of the neo-grotesque slab serifs, with low stroke contrast and compact proportions. Like the Sans, it has square dots. Several design details like the round tails and the big apertures add a warm humanist touch, and its chunky square serifs give Nomada Slab a friendly look. The italics stand out due to their semi-serif structure – a refreshing choice for this type of slab serif face. Its 18 styles match those in the other families, allowing harmonious pairings.

My Lovely is a beautiful script font made with many swashes in start and ending character, offering beautiful love swashes. This font includes a full set of swash heart lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation. It also includes opentype Ligatures and Stylistic Setuntil 10 option. This is so perfect for invitations, monograms, wedding, fashion, branding, labels or logotype.

VLNL TpDuro was designed by chef Martin Lorenz and Juanra ‘Wete’ Pastor. Its concept was inspired by an Albrecht Dürer design from 1525, which shows a system to construct a gothic lowercase letter. Following the logic of this lowercase construction, but not the traditional uppercase letters of regular fraktur (brokenscript) alphabets, some brand new upper case letters were designed. The 45 degree tilted square that forms the basis of the letters, is as square and hard as a cracker. And we love crackers. You can put cheese on them. The ‘pixel’ feeling of the downstroke was intensified by repeating the rotated square module as often as they could. All this resulted in a strong, dark typeface with a steady rhythm, with one foot in history and the other in modern times. It works well as a display typeface for short texts, headlines and logos. Music festivals and heavy metal bands should also pay attention. This is hard stuff.

Radical Brush is a rather radical font: I made it with a really wild brush and Chinese Ink. I’d probably use it for revolutionary posters, packaging design for extreme products or for R-rated movie posters.