10 great Display fonts from 2017
List of orginal and inspiring typefaces for vibrant headers.
Oi! by Kostas Bartsokas
Oi! is a Clarendon on steroids. Oi is an interjection used in various languages. Its meaning varies, depending on the tone and abruptness of its use, from a simple “hi” or a call of attention to as far as a challenge to a fight. It supports Latin and Greek and comes in two styles. Oi! You!, the regular style, and its accompanying Oi! Mate!, a shadowed style that adds a third dimension to its playfulness.
Faction by Shiva Nallaperumal (Lost Type)
Faction exploring relationship between forms and counter-forms. About the name, “Faction” is a termed commonly used in politics to refer to a dissenting group within a larger group. This seemed perfect for a typeface where the counters contradicted the outer forms. Faction comes in two styles: Display and Outline. With a custom drawn outline style, and a unique attention to positive and negative space, Faction packs a punch for display uses.
Peristyle by Hoefler & Co.
Peristyle has a strong personal style that is chic, fashionable and elegant. Peristyle explores the effects of contrast across six weights, from a vertiginous Light to a groovy Black. What is more, the bicolor Peristyle Stencil Layers fonts automatically adjust the assignment of colors from shape to shape, in order to maintain an even rhythm.
Jaroslav by Tomáš Brousil (Suitcase Type Foundry)
While the Jaroslav type family respects efforts to find new expression in an old and seemingly exhausted Latin, it reflects everything that was to come in the last hundred years. For this reason, Jaroslav is primarily a reaction to the problem of the exaggerated unification of sans-serif letterforms. Its innovative approach to the lowercase and uppercase characters refreshes the clearly dried-up concept of the grotesque, and brings to it again the much-needed principles of freedom and creative playfulness. Jaroslav comes in 10 styles.
Rosella™ by Sabina Chipară(Monotype)
The Rosella™ family is an elegant and playful suite of typefaces inspired by late 19th century engravers typefaces that mimic the delicate and ornate hairlines of steel and copperplate engraving. The family’s foundation is built on the dramatic Solid design and then expands to Deco, Engraved, Flourish, Hatched and Inline styles.
Praho Pro by Maciej Włoczewski
Praho Pro is a part of Warsaw Types — a project based on Warsaw’s local typographic heritage. The project, presented at the Museum of Praga, is a collaboration of 12 young Polish typographers.
Praho Pro is a multilingual family inspired by the unique, historical character of Praga district of Poland’s capital — Warsaw. High contrast, thin serifs, sharp terminals and large x-height are key features for distinctive headlines. The whole family consist of 9 weights and real italics, small caps, superscript and subscript letters, oldstyle, tabular figures and fractions. It covers latin and cyrillic script. Every weight has almost 2000 glyphs.
Respira Black by Sharp Type
Respira is a contemporary blackletter inspired by Spanish and English models from the 15th and 16th centuries. From its release on Earth Day, 2017, ALL proceeds from the sale of this typeface will be donated to the NRDC.
Pilot by Aleksandra Samuļenkova (Bold Monday)
Pilot is an informal jobbing typeface for short texts and striking display use — e.g. headlines, posters, book jackets or packaging. The angular design and handmade character contributes to a slightly nostalgic feel reminiscent of sign painter-style lettering, especially in the bold italics. Pilot comes in 10 styles.
SangBleu Typeface
The typeface doesn’t follow the conventional classification (Serif/Sans/Slab). It doesn’t represent an obvious linear progression of optical sizes like Dispay or Text — although some styles lend themselves more to being used at a certain size than others. Instead, each member offers a distinctive voice that can serve a dedicated purpose, and meet a stylistic preference. Sang Bleu consisting of five full-featured collections: Empire, Kingdom, Republic, Versailles, and Sunrise. Each one comes in four or five weights, all of which are accompanied by matching italics. At 45 styles in total.
Velo Sans by Christian Schwartz, Mitja Miklavčič and Ben Kiel (House Industries)
Velo Sans is characterised superelliptical shapes and has energy for many races. Velo Sans includes sixteen fonts: Twelve display styles ranging from thin to black with complementary italics and four text styles designed for longer settings. Velo Sans Display features an increased x-height for more illustrative headlines while Velo Sans Text maintains a readable cadence in high word count environments.
