Charlotte Weeks

Malden Sans is a mischievous grotesque sans serif with charming details that gives designers a solid typographic voice. It was created by Michele Patanè with regular and condensed widths, as a utilitarian typeface family for print and digital environments.

It was originally designed as part of a type system for cinema magazines, and embodies the devil-may care attitude of the silver screen. Designer Michele Patanè looked back to an earlier era of typography to create the typeface, embracing unusual details, rather than ironing them out.

“There is a very naive way of using typography in the 30s and 40s, something not as clean as how it’s used in the late 50s and 60s when everything passed through a rationalisation of the typographic palette,” he explains. “In film magazines you can still see a bit of roughness, and I like that.”

This is a design that’s desperate to be used in editorial environments, and has been created to stand up to lower quality paper. It would be equally at home on posters, packaging, and even in digital environments where designers are looking for something more expressive than another geometric sans serif.

Malden Sans includes a Normal and Condensed range, with 7 weights in the normal and 6 in the Condensed, both including italics.

Designed by Alberto Romanos, Bw Seido Round is a semi condensed font family with rounded corners striking a gentle balance between minimal strict geometry and typographic refinement, conveying a subtle industrial yet friendly feel. It consist of 12 styles (6 uprights + 6 matching obliques) supporting all European Latin languages.

The design of Bw Seido Round started heavily Influenced by the systematic principles behind the original German DIN 1451, with its clean, minimal shapes and rigid geometric feel: Both the lowercase and the uppercase have their own horizontal waistline running through all the characters of the font, reinforcing the engineered feel and focusing the rhythm on its vertical pace.

Beyond the very obvious rounded corners and terminals, which are instantly softening the feel and positioning this font on the friendly side, Bw Seido Round presents a series of subtle typographic adjustments elevating the design while staying invisible: The monoline look is achieved seamlessly thanks to the subtle modulation and the corrections at the joins; the tall x-height married with the open counters and the unambiguous shapes make it a very legible font,... All these ingredients play a balancing game with the crude geometry by adding the right doses of warmth into the industrial feel.

The resulting combination is a very functional font family suited for carrying the weight of a contemporary brand’s visual identity. Its tabular figures feature includes currency symbols and punctuation, making it a great candidate for information design and annual reports. Bw Seido Round is equally comfortable in print as it is in digital environments, thanks to the additional symbols and arrows included matching each weight. Other OpenType features included on the Bw Seido Round font family are stylistic alternates, slashed zero, fractions, case sensitive and localized forms.

Qualion Text™ is a modern geometric sans serif typeface with humanist and calligraphic inspirations. It is a text family designed for excellent legibility.

Qualion Text™ is a sibling of Qualion™, geometric family with lots of swashes and ornaments. Letter shapes and proportions has been adjusted to fit paragraph text and small sizes:
- typeface is narrower now in order to fit more text in the design space
- larger stroke contrast
- pronounced ink traps and tapering
- elegant true italics made even more calligraphic
- adjusted spacing and kerning
- adjusted font weights

The main purpose of the family is clean and legible paragraph text, however it is very attractive choice for branding, headlines and display use, too. The italic styles as well as thin, bold and black upright styles have very strong character and look great in display sizes. Italics are very fluent, calligraphic, subtle and elegant, from the other side bold and black uprigths are very modern, powerful and unique thanks to the pronounced ink traps.

Qualion Text™ family consists of 20 styles - 10 weights with corresponding true italics. Both have extended language support, as well as broad number of OpenType features, such as small caps, case sensitive forms, standard and discretionary ligatures, swashes, stylistic sets, contextual alternates, lining, oldstyle, tabular and small cap figures, slashed zero, fractions, superscript and subscript, ordinals, currencies and symbols.

Steal the spotlight with Senlot. A high contrast sans serif, Senlot’s figure is perfect for enrapturing your audience. The font shows off a unique calligraphic stress, which--with the contrast--makes the face quite usable in luxury and high quality design work.

The gorgeous appearance of Senlot is accompanied by a complete set of small capitals and a true italic. Dress your text in any of nine separate styles from Thin to Bold. Senlot also holds a full set of OpenType features, including titling capitals, superscripts and subscripts, and oldstyle figures and has an extended Latin cover with span for over 72 languages.

A special thanks to Lucas Azevedo and ikern for production assistance on Senlot. Let Senlot’s beauty and simplicity carry the stage on your new text or webpage.

A truly faithful ally for every designer looking for fresh yet familiar and reliable font choice. Geller was created as a part of graduation project in Typowa Pracownia at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. It is a typeface family intended for newspaper, editorial usage.

Geller family comes in two optical sizes - headline and text, it is a complete solution for editorial purposes. During design process the technical needs of certain typographic fractions were examined. The capital letters were designed with certain purpose: it’s modern proportions (derived from Didone fonts) with optimised inner lights as well as short ascenders and descenders work very well within titles and leads. Except of wide range of opentype features, Geller contains bullets & dingbats providing many possibilities in introduction of entry points in editorial design. Compact diacritics, proportionally tall x-height, narrow letter construction, all this designed features make typesetting of narrow text columns and spreads economical.