Akko conspires to be both technical and warmly humanist, combining some of the familiar forms of Eurostile® and DIN with the density and heavyweight friendliness of Cooper Black™. Its compactness makes it perfect for situations where space is limited, and its crisp legibility is great for wayfinding and headlines; readable at speed and strong enough to stand out in busy environments.

The other technical, yet warm, type family we're featuring is Klint™, a superfamily of 30 fonts; five weights, three widths, and an italic for each. More firmly geometric than Akko, it also offers a generous x-height but gives more open letterspacing and a stronger horizontal stress. Use the italics for your fast-moving, forward looking designs, the Romans for a crisp technical punch.

Brilliantly revived and restored for the digital age by Christian Schwartz, Neue Haas Grotesk™ is the original design for the typeface that became Helvetica. Faithful to the character forms and spacing as designed by Max Miedinger in 1957, Neue Haas Grotesk has 22 fonts, from ultra thin to black, with companion italics, covering every use from display to body text. This is a true original classic and is destined to be at the core of any designer's repertoire of typefaces.

Designed by Laura Worthington, Samantha Script™ is a formal script face that offers great stylistic flexibility, with Opentype characteristics that let you choose between connected and unconnected forms, oldstyle figures, and a huge array of alternates and ligatures. The Pro version provides swashes and a set of 45 logotypes of common words such as 'and', 'at' and days of the week. Naturally suited to elegant, formal settings, experiment with this script to create strong compositions and inspire new ideas for your designs.

Another script by Laura Worthington, Sheila™ is a fast-flowing handwritten design with verve and enthusiasm, leaving heavy ink where the pen might dig into the page and hairline strokes where it would barely brush the surface. Stylistic alternates provide variety while maintaining the sense of rhythm, and the bold and regular weights allow for use at display and text sizes.

A gloriously exuberant script face by Anton Scholtz, Always™ is available in six styles and has dramatically looped ascenders and descenders. With a careful setting you'll be able to create intricate overlapping compositions across multiple lines, and the range of styles gives you the flexibility to experiment with sizes and densities of text in your design. Try using it for dramatic headlines and pairing it with a crisp humanist sans serif such as Akko or Frutiger® for the body text.

A classic commercial style brush script, Crostini™ by Merle Scholtz is ideal for vivacious marketing applications, expressive menus and in-your-face salesroom attention-getters.

Hannes von Döhren started out designing fonts for fun while working in a large advertising agency, distributing them for free online. “None of them were good enough to sell, yet neither were they so bad that I trashed them – so I began distributing them for free. After a while, I figured that I should learn to make good typefaces so that I could sell them.”

Since then, he's designed over 20 typeface families, including one of this issue's featured fonts, Klint, and the renaissance-inspired Livory, above. His work often bears closer inspection, with subtle details and delicate modulation enhancing the design and adding character and interest.

Von Döhren has some advice for younger designers. “Never lose your passion. The most important thing is that you love what you do. It's a long journey to become a good type designer. It is hard work and there is much to learn. And – with few exceptions – there are no rich type designers. The only reason to start designing type is for the love of it.”

With offices in London, Sapiranga in Brazil and Cairo, Dalton Maag has been designing fonts and logos since 1991. Fonts.com carries over 90 fonts designed by Dalton Maag, including the Helvetica-inspired Aktiv Grotesk™, above.

The foundry of type designer Jos Buivenga, Exljbris rose to prominence with the release of Museo™ in 2008, which became one of the best-selling font families of that year. Since then he's released both sans and sans rounded versions, various scripts including Fertigo™, above, and full-fledged Roman faces such as Calluna™.

Type designer and artist Laura Worthington creates beautiful scripts, ornamentals and Roman types using her skills and experience with hand lettering and illustration. Her scripts often suit an exuberant setting and with care many beautiful and delicate compositions can be made.

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