Difficult to imagine a best-of list with no showing from Ale Paul. This one is no exception. Ale released several great faces in 2008, but my favourite has to be Compendium. A fluid, beautifully crafted script, made all the more wonderful with a large helping of OpenType wizardry:
Newzald
by Kris Sowersby, a TDC winner for his sans National, his serif Newzald is already one of my favourite serifs. Has everything you could ever want from a text face. I’m still waiting for it to be taken up by a newspaper
Marat
A TDC 2008 winner, created by Ludwig Übele:
Skolar
Although it hasn’t been released yet, David Březina’s text face Skolar is already looking pretty exceptional.
Skolar is slated for release in 2009 (probably March/April) through Type Together as a family of six weights (regular, semibold, bold, and their respective italics); and will support most of the Euro-American languages, and come replete with numerous typographhic niceties (five numeral sets, ligatures, superiors, inferiors, fractions, arrows, …). A working beta version — minus semibold and bold italics — will be available by the end of January. Contact Type Together for further information.
MEgalopolis Extra
from the very talented Frenchman, Jack Usine. And it’s free:
Museo
The hugely successful Museo, from Jos Buivenga. Available in 5 weights, three of which are free:
Blaktur
Ken Barber’s simple yet in your face letterforms, wrapped up in some really smart OpenType features. If you’re looking for a ‘blackletter’ display face that won’t be lost in the crowd, then look no further:
Facebuster
A very bold slab serif with minuscule slit counters — from Silas Dilworth:
Tomate
Voluptuous, fun, and very sexy — from Ramiro Espinoza:
Soho
from Seb Lester, very talented illustrator and type designer who is finally starting to get some of the recognition he deserves. Both Soho and Soho Gothic are exceptional typefaces. Be sure to take a look at the Soho PDF specimen.
FF Utility
Lukas Schneider’s sans, FF Utility is one of the best you’re likely to see. A sans with real warmth and personality.
Credits : www.ilovetypography.com
