Carl Crossgrove describes his Biome typeface family as “both futuristic and organic, with a sense of calm.” Biome was born from combining twin threads, one exploring superelliptical, globular forms, while the other surveyed futuristic and mechanical influences; the result is a typeface that is generously spaced, warm and modern.

Biome grew out of a succession of unrelated typographic experiments. Crossgrove says, “I wanted to see what resulted from subtracting superellipses from each other.” Superellipses are the kind of squared circles and ovals used in typefaces such as Eurostile and Korataki. Crossgrove noticed that “some of these faces were drawn within an unbending rectangular grid, others were developed primarily for display sizes, or were based on the ‘Grotesk’ character structure. I saw that by retaining a softer demeanor, with generous character spacing, Biome would accommodate a wider range of sizes and applications.” After successive design refinements, the simplified, superelliptical design resulted in a typeface with a large x-height, squared bowls and soft diagonal terminals.
 
Biome’s soft corners and distinctive character shapes make the family a natural choice for branding, packaging or advertising applications, as well as film titles, gaming and other interactive graphics.

Elsner+Flake was founded in 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake after ten years of freelance experience in the field of type design, typography, as well as the digitizing of fonts and logos. Elsner+Flake take great care to ensure their faces are technically, as well as aesthetically, complete with kerning tables, individually designed accents for caps, as well as lower case and true italics; many of their typefaces also include small caps and old style numerals. The resulting faces are flexible, precise and possess excellent legibility.

Designed by Volker Küster, the Today Sans typeface (above) is a humanist sans in the same vein as Eric Gill’s Gill Sans® or Jeremy Tankard’s Bliss. Overall, the typeface has an open, friendly demeanor with large counters, angled stroke terminals and generous curves. The design spans a range of characteristics from the elegant, refined sense of the light italic, to the warm, bouncy chunkiness of the ultra black. Despite the range of personalities of the typefaces, the designs retain a consistent familial character between all styles.

Last month, we debuted a new Fonts.com. The new design pairs a broad inventory of desktop and Web fonts with a bold, new aesthetic. We are pleased to now bring the site out of beta, and give you the best experience for finding type for use on the desktop or the Web. In addition to a new logo, Fonts.com now features easy access to more Hand Tuned Web Fonts, new tools for trialing fonts in your creative projects, as well as more content and imagery to fuel your typographic passion. Read more…

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