Our hardworking Adelle Sans family was just given an update and it’s free to download now (current Adelle Sans license holders). Adelle Sans has enough character to be eye-catching in headlines and branding. Listening to your feedback, we added an alternate lowercase ‘l’ to help with recognition. True, it does not change the fundamental design, but it softens the overall look ever so slightly and it’s now easier to tell apart from other characters. Log into your account on our website to grab the free update.

Graphic designers play a fundamental role in visual communication, whether in print or digital format. They sit between content and reader and, for better or worse, they shape the way the public interacts with information. So when graphic designers choose typefaces they have a responsibility to the reader that should be taken seriously. We covered the type selection process in a previous article so now it’s time to discuss how to assess font quality.

 We’re excited about the possibilities of variable fonts. While developers have been won to the side of “mobile first”, our newest font family in progress Belarius was created from the beginning as “variable first” — and its small file size and instantaneous responsiveness serves the developer community as much as the design and user community. Belarius is our most impressive magazine font yet!  

Monospace fonts carry opposite tones, from low-tech typewriters to high-tech development and coding. Our idea was to bring something more to the table with Adelle Mono and Mono Flex. Pooja Saxena wrote an informative post about monospaced typefaces and how our new family fits into, and extends, that category.

Last year’s winner of the Gerard Unger Scholarship was Lektorat (previously named Redaktion) by Florian Fecher. Since then Florian has been steadily refining his design, working with our team to craft a strong and focused family, and we’ve begun the first few steps of the marketing plan. But all that behind the scenes stuff isn’t as fun as getting a peek at Lektorat, so click the link and have at it!

 Feeling like having a Birrificio Martesana beer? We might have to wait a bit longer. Gianluca Pirotta, senior graphic designer at Leftloft has explored the branding and design of a fictional brewery in the old and trendy neighbourhood of Milan, La Martesana. He has used the recently released LFT Arnoldo, designed by Leftloft, to create a playful, typographic, and personable product image that combines historical and contemporary elements of La Martesana.