Every once in a while something new gets added to an old standby. In this case, a tough slab serif has been jolted with a strong shot of exuberant flourishes. TypeTogether is proud to announce Molto — another significant release by Xavier Dupré. Molto is a slab serif font with large sections of stalwart concrete that are tempered by thin mohair connections. Its nine roman weights ensure posters and magazine headlines receive an elevated and contrasting treatment and captions are as legible as normal text. Grab a coffee and wake your eyes with a powerful and gentle take on slab fonts.

Our core team is constituted by some of the top individuals in their respective fields. In the first of a short series, type designer Azza Alameddine of Adelle Sans Arabic fame, writes about the parts of letterforms in Arabic script. English terminology for Latin-based type is clear and mostly settled, but in other languages there is no such clear consensus. So how do multi-script type users and designers discuss specific letterform parts? Here we offer proposals toward a standard in type anatomy, with future instalments covering Devanagari, Greek, Latin, and more, so be on the lookout for those.

Each year the European Design Awards selects the top type designs from the prior year. We’re happy to announce that Teo Tuominen’s Trevor was a finalist in a very close competition. To celebrate we’re offering a one-time discount of 60% off the Trevor family, but only for the first 60 takers. Use the discount code 56b24929 to make good with this neighbourly serif and snag yourself a great deal while you can! And congrats again to Teo and the other ED-Award winners!

Roxane Gataud has been on an upward trajectory since her release of Bely in 2016. She has won awards, joined the TypeTogether team, and continues with freelance projects on the side. In keeping with our team interview series, click this link to read more about our type and graphic designer Roxane.

The Society of Typographic Aficionados is bringing TypeCon back to Portland from August 1–5. Come join TypeTogether’s writer/editor, Joshua Farmer, this year as he leads a full-day workshop on how to write typeface descriptions for a font-buying audience. The discussion-plus-production workshop will show you how to market your incredible work with words, all while covering a wide range of subjects and allowing time to produce and refine your own descriptions. It’ll fill up fast so grab your spot while you still can!

We’d like to announce Protipo’s own minisite, developed by Kenneth Ormandy with design input by Cesár Sesio and the TypeTogether team. Try out Protipo’s display style, its three widths, and its icon sets in a live web environment that you can control! Make the characters stretch to fill space, shrink to add more letters to a line, and perform the “jumps” as its internal space changes. When you’ve realised how well it can work for your information design needs, grab the licence to this advanced family.
Note: The minisite features work best in the newest operating systems and the newest browsers, so make sure you are up to date to get the full experience.