With seven weights available – from light to extra bold – the robust Classic Grotesque family consists of well-balanced sans serif letterforms designed by Rod McDonald. Each weight also includes a cursive italic complement, for a total of 14 different styles. The light and book weights are excellent for body copy, while the bold and extra bold styles project a strong presence for larger display applications.

Classic Grotesque is available as OpenType Pro fonts, allowing for the automatic insertion of ligatures, fractions and the alternate two-story ‘g’ and single-story ‘a’ McDonald deftly designed. Pro fonts include extended character sets, enabling the setting of most Central European and many Eastern European languages. The Classic Grotesque collection is available for desktop licensing, as well for Web use through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

A bold and confident slab serif, the Soho typeface provides an expansive variety of weights and widths – over 40 styles are available, ranging from the delicate condensed light letterforms, to the behemoth-like ultra bold extended design.

In addition to its sheer breadth of weights and widths, Soho is exceptionally legible and – especially in its heavier weights – conveys a sense of solid reliability. The Soho collection is available for desktop licensing, as well as for Web use through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

A new design from exljbris designer Jos Buivenga, the Museo Sans Condensed family is the space-saving complement of the popular Museo Sans design, which is, in turn, based on the equally well-known original Museo family.

While a perfect companion to its sister designs, the Museo Sans Condensed collection also stands steadfast on its own, able to handle applications requiring both display and smaller text settings. An additional strength, with 455 glyphs per weight, the Museo Sans Condensed collection supports a wide range of languages as well.

Laura Worthington’s Sheila design is a flamboyant handwriting typeface possessing a lively range of alternate glyphs and ligatures. This attractive script can be used to create elegant settings or – by use of the alternate characters in contrasting scales – relaxed, expressive graphic compositions. Sheila is available in two weights for desktop licensing, as well as through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

Linotype’s handsome Sabon Next collection – designed by Jean-François Porchez – is a finely-hewn revival of Jan Tschichold’s original Sabon typeface crafted for the Stempel foundry. This adroit reimagining is remarkably well suited for book design, or other design applications requiring considerable amounts of body text.

The Sabon Next typeface family is available in 12 styles – from regular to black weights – with lithe matching italics completing the collection. Available for desktop licensing, as well as for Web use through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service, Sabon Next is truly a modern classic.

Designed by Dave Farey for Monotype, the Cachet family is a warm, readable typeface. While resembling many squared-off, monospaced fonts, Farey’s design also enjoys soft curves and gently flared terminals on many glyphs. These considerations project a decidedly affable character; in addition, Farey’s use of rounded diamond shapes for punctuation letterforms add thoughtful decorative touches, reinforcing Cachet’s ability to be compellingly utilized at display sizes as well as for body text.

With the design spanning three weights – book, medium, and bold, the Cachet collection is available for desktop licensing, as well as through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

Founded in 1989 by Roger Black and David Berlow, The Font Bureau is one of the leading contemporary designers and publishers of typefaces. With an impressive portfolio of custom design typefaces – including those originally designed for many major American publications – Font Bureau continues to offer first class designs crafted by industry-leading type designers. Showcased above are four families from Font Bureau’s collection available from Fonts.com.

At top, the Antenna design is a calm, deliberate sans serif typeface crafted by Cyrus Highsmith. Presenting a friendly, albeit subtly businesslike demeanor, Antenna possesses a modern flair without bombast. Handsome, but also versatile in myriad of styles, with weights ranging from light to black, Highsmith’s design is aptly fashioned for both display and text settings.

Below is the Dispatch type family, also designed by Highsmith. An industrial grade slab-serif for text and display, the Dispatch collection is a perfect coalescence of beauty and utility. Structural, yet still possessing expertly crafted curved letterforms, this typeface family is available in 16 hardy styles, from the gentle light to imposing black weights.

The third design presented is the Eagle type family. Whereas the Antenna design was reserved, the Eagle collection is unabashedly forthright – its chunky, geometric sans serif letterforms are sturdy, yet still possess an underlying grace. Developed by David Berlow and Johnathan Corum, this collection is inspired from titling designs for the National Recovery Administration drawn by Morris Fuller Benton. Despite its gregarious nature, the black weight of the Eagle family provides an imposing and attention-grabbing visual presence.

Last in the list is the voluminous Interstate collection; based upon the signage alphabets of the Federal Highway Administration, the Interstate typefaces were designed by Tobias Frere-Jones beginning in 1993. Possessing an aesthetic ethos striving for visual clarity, the letterforms of the designs are stoic and matter-of-fact. With the efforts of Highsmith, the Interstate family has evolved to a comprehensive collection of 40 different styles, ranging from hairline to ultra black.

Val Kalinic is a student and design enthusiast based in Zagreb, Croatia. His first offering available on Fonts.com – the friendly geometric Mauve typeface – is available in two styles: a straightforward monoline design, as well as a complementary outline version.

WeAreColt is a new UK-based foundry producing some bright display faces. The iamblock typefaces were developed with the rave and party scene in mind; best used with bright colors and strong visual contrast, iamblock includes both monospaced and proportionally-spaced variants.

This month we’re offering the bold weight of the Klint typeface for free! The Klint collection is a superfamily of 35 fonts consisting of five weights, three widths and matching italics. The family offers a generous x-height, but also has open letterspacing and a strong horizontal stress. Try the Klint Bold typeface – it will automatically be added to your cart at checkout. If you enjoy it, explore the rest of the family: use italics for your fast-moving, forward-looking designs, and the roman designs for a crisp technical punch.

For over 20 years, Jelle Bosma has crafted typefaces and technology for Monotype. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Art, Bosma’s career has spanned many arenas of typographic practice.

In addition to designing typefaces, such as the serifed Cambria and EF Forlane type families seen above, Bosma has been integral to the development of tools optimizing type viewed on-screen.

Working from his studio near The Hague, Bosma divides his time between designing type, programming font tools, hinting, and other type production projects. Learn more…