The Veneer collection is a highly detailed, hand-crafted typeface family presenting a vintage and well-weathered letterpress aesthetic. Highly customizable with six distressed alternate characters for every letter, Veneer also features three supplementary options for all other glyphs. Remarkably detailed, this typeface from Yellow Design Studio looks striking even at large display sizes.

Additionally, the Veneer family’s styles include: Veneer, Veneer Two, and Veneer Three, each possessing an increasing amount of distressed texturing. Veneer Extras (and its italic counterpart) is a face comprised of graphic icons and symbols, perfect for adding a visual punch to typographic compositions. For adding additional dimensionality to your designs, mix and overlay Veneer’s different styles to realistically replicate the spirit of letterpress typography.

Crafted by Laura Worthington, the Rosarian family offers two unique script faces; developed from lettering with pointed brush and ink, this connected script is not only playful and lively, but has distinct hints of vintage character.

With a comprehensive collection of over 215 alternate glyphs and ornaments, Rosarian allows designers to create messaging with an elegance and panache – whether for casual or formal correspondence alike.

Designed by Oliver Gourvat and released through the Mostardesign Studio foundry, the Sofia family is an effervescent sans serif collection, exuding modernist overtones and harmonious letterforms.

Geometric forms retain judicious humanist influences though; such considered nuances provide Sofia a well-balanced and sensible appearance, suitable for both body text and headline implementations.

Sofia’s extra light, light, and thin weights are lithe and airy, while bold weights and extended widths provide brawny, solid counterpoints rounding out the collection. Sofia is available in 8 weights, each in 3 styles — regular, condensed, and expanded.

The Aviano Contrast collection is a contemporary typeface family radiating with luxury – its overt elegance is perfectly suited for high-end applications such as cosmetic, jewelry or fashion branding. One of the newest descendants of Insigne’s Aviano suite of complementary typefaces, Aviano Contrast is equally as versatile as its kin, including over 230 alternate characters for designers to utilize.

Twelve style sets of Aviano Contrast are available, including four complete sets of art deco-inspired alternates, small forms, swash, and titling characters. As a supplement to these characters, Aviano Contrast also includes 40 discretionary ligatures for expressive typographic compositions.

Aviano Contrast is available in 6 styles – from a delicate thin to a substantial black weight. If enamored by this family, make sure to explore its additional companion faces from Insigne – Aviano, Aviano Didone, Aviano Serif, Aviano Flare, Aviano Future, and Aviano Sans.

The Acto family is designed as the sans-serif complement to the similarly named Acta collection, also from DSType. Both of these type families were created for the redesign of Chilean newspaper La Tercera. The letterforms are designed to avoid common legibility problems, so that the I and the l are distinct, and b and q have different characteristics from d and p.

Acto is a flexible sans family, with eleven weights and matching italics, ranging from a gossamer hairline offering, to the substantial UltraBlack. This robustness of styles affords the Acto collection visual stopping power, assuring a capturing of viewer attention. As a complete typographic system, this family is excellent for both editorial and corporate design applications.

Monsieur La Doulaise is a script revival based upon early mid-century designs from Charles Bluemlein. Flowing and fair, this script has also been exhaustively expanded by Sudtipos, reflecting not only the design’s original grace, but affording it the capabilities of contemporary OpenType features, such as extended language support.

Gallant and dexterous, Monsieur La Doulaise is excellently prepared for all manner of formal correspondence and graphic communication. Alejandro Paul’s expanded design retains another vestige of the script’s original design – the typeface’s namesake reflects Bluemlein’s hallmark of assigning fictitious characters to his design, a quirk which Sudtipos has preserved.

Monsieur La Doulaise is available for desktop licensing, as well as for online use through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

Linotype’s Rabenau collection was inspired by many factors, from fonts used upon book covers, to typewriter-based fonts, and even printed materials from England dating from the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Rabenau’s high contrast letterforms are tempered by organic tapers, subtly rounded bracketed serifs, and a generous x-height. These characteristics imbue Rabenau with an aesthetic that shines especially well in print applications.

With a broad repertoire of 16 weights and styles – including condensed, poster, and shadowed variants – the Rabenau family offers great versatility, while remaining distinct and dignified.

Rabenau is available for desktop licensing, as well as through the Fonts.com Web Fonts Service.

Designed by Johnathan Hill, the Regan Slab collection is a precision-cut slab serif typeface. Simple curves are combined with considered angles to provide a design that is not simply thoroughly readable, but one which features quiet flashes of beauty.

Lighter weights of the typeface are delicate indeed, but they still retain a discernible strength and structural composure. Conversely, the hulking heavier weights of the Regan Slab family, while visually imposing, are not overwrought – they possess a delightful grace and remain approachable despite the heft of their letterforms.

Regan Slab is ideally suited to wide range of applications, including magazine, newspaper as well as design projects for hand-held devices. With an encompassing 10 weights – from a hairline ultra thin offering to a mammoth ultra – Regan Slab is a comprehensive type system. In addition to its 10 weights, matching italics are also provided, along with OpenType features such as: 5 variations of numerals, small caps, and stylistic alternates.

Dieter Hofrichter’s HT Ashbury collection derives inspiration from 18th century transitional typefaces such as Baskerville. This release from the Hoftype foundry is designed not simply as a facsimile of historic offerings, but as a modern interpretation of the type classification’s best aesthetic features.

With flowing, graceful lettershapes, HT Ashbury remains warm and pleasant, yet also assertive due to its solid stroke weights. HT Ashbury is available in ten styles, from extra light to bold weights, and features regal matching italics. Additionally, these refined italics are enhanced through carefully-crafted OpenType ligatures, and the HT Ashbury family provides extended support for over 40 languages.

The conception of the Foco family originated in ideas crafted by Fabio Haag at a workshop held by Bruno Maag in 2002. Haag continued to work on the design, and in 2004 Dalton Maag expanded the typeface to its current offering.

Foco is a four-weight typeface family with open and round character shapes that feel warm and inviting. Slightly flared strokes provide the face a modern fluidity, infusing the design (especially the italics) with not only a sense of motion, but an amiable character as well.

Foco’s gamut of weights, from light to black, allows it to be particularly suited for use in publishing and advertising environments – whether utilized for billboard applications to leaders into magazine articles, Foco assures that graphic messaging is seen.

The Sheepman collection is inspired by and based on William Page’s No. 506 design, a popular wood typeface of the 19th Century. The original angular design was softened, creating a warmer aesthetic without losing sense of its vintage traits.

While the collection’s roman stylings have a sober, no-nonsense spirit, the oblique offerings are imparted with a sense of urgency and liveliness. Sheepman includes 3 weights – light, regular, and bold – with matching oblique designs, as well as a suite of alternate characters.

Released by its namesake foundry Arabetics, the Arabetics Latte family is a distinctive serif typeface featuring thorough support for Arabic scripts.

The design of this font family strives to harmonize Latin letterforms with those of Arabic script typography. Through this feature, Arabetics Latte features extensive language support and is available in both OpenType and TrueType formats. The Arabetics Latte collection includes two weights – regular and bold – and each features italic, and left-slanted companion styles.

Rama Gothic is an antiqued sans serif designed inspired by wood type of the 1800s. Crafted as a nostalgic retro face with an impressive 18 styles, this offering from Ryoichi Tsunekawa is exceptionally suited for display type undertakings, whether headlines, posters, or any design situation requiring high impact typographic settings.

With matter-of-fact, no frills letterforms, Rama Gothic is superb for design projects requiring attention-grabbing broadcasts of information; available in three widths – regular, condensed, and expanded – weights of the Rama Gothic family range from the a wiry light to a stout heavy offering.

Named from the Portuguese word for ‘wire’, the Arame design is a family of monoline faces from DMTR.org. Designed by Dimitre Lima, Arame features three proportional styles as well and one monospaced offering; while the face conjures comparison to traditional “machine readable” fonts – such as OCR-A and B – the Arame family projects a modern disposition with its carefully shaped curved letterforms.

These modernist traits will find inherent appeal for science fiction and technological settings – the family may also see successful use in magazine layouts, whether for pull quote or headline implementation. Arame is available in 4 styles; thin, regular, and bold weights are complemented by a handsome stenciled variety.