Bruno

Multilayered type always looks nice, but it's a pain to work with. Until now!

Leo Koppelkamm releases Bruno, a lovely multilayered font that is pretty easy to work with. For that he developed an InDesign plugin, which fetches the colors from your swatches, and lets you use them for the background layer. Essentially it seems to be two text frames, but glued together, and instantly updated. You can track the text, underline it, rotate, resize, basically do pretty much everything you can do while using any other font. Better see it in action in this demo video.

While it's cool from a technological point of view, it is also a cute design, which would feel at home with anything kids-related. The last line in the image is how the glyphs actually look in this font — with alternates to make the background. How Leo didn't go insane while designing them, is beyond me. Anyway, it's great to see people pushing the boundaries of what's possible in typography.

Protip: get Bruno while on sale!

 Nice write-up about Karloff, the new typeface from Typotheque. Interesting, how we perceive one extreme contrast shift as elegant, and another as monstrous.

Turnip

David Jonathan Ross is a master of contrast. His playful Trilby, majestic (and enormously extensive) Condor and the fun Manicotti all show that, some more subtle than others. Turnip has plenty of the subtle but visible contrast variation, a wide top-heavy design with squarish inner and round outer curves and sharp angles that make for paragraphs "with a bite" as he calls it. It all sounds clunky, but makes the paragraphs sit remarkably well on a page. I loved Joshua Darden's Freight Micro, and this goes into similar direction, with Bookman (and hints of Clarendon?) as a role model. Take a look at Turnip here

Cassannet

A good-looking free font based on lettering of the poster artist Cassandre, and an excellent site

Chrono

Chrono by Process is another addition to the range Recta/Neuzeit-esque faces, including Calibre by KLIM, Graphik by Christian Schwartz and digitized Recta itself, by CanadaType, to name a few. Eric Olson's vision is DINified a bit, and it's good to have alternatives, right?

Kontrapunkt Bob

Kontrapunkt, the danish guys behind award-winning free Kontrapunkt typeface, have released a nice slab serif in two weights, for free. Test and download here

Prestiggio and Mingray from Rekord

Mingray is a stylish monospaced font in three weights

Prestiggio is an elegant display font with many alternate characters and ligatures

Smidgen from House Industries

Nice revival, and it comes with drop shadow style

Irma Text

I've always liked Typotheque Irma, the tight spacing, rigid but somehow warm geometric shapes, fun ligatures. But I've also asked myself, y u no lowercase? Now there is the Text version with lowercase and even new Rounded styles. I must say, I didn't expect the Text styles to go in this direction, reminds me of De Groot's Taz a bit (which is not a bad thing at all).

Marlene Stencil

Nicola Djurek has extended his wonderful Marlene with Stencil styles, which offer 4 alternate swashes per glyph. He's crazy.

Capitolium, Coranto and Pollen

Finally, the magnificent Gerard Unger typefaces can be bought at typetogether or MyFonts. Developed especially as newspaper headlines faces or signage type, they are both very space-saving and have excellent display qualities at the same time. Now if he only would release Gulliver as well ;)

Pollen is a very nice, playful, soft serif by the Brazilian designer Eduardo Berliner

Touchfont

Sexy stuff by i_sunny_smile, m and z are my favourites

India-inspired type

Great work by Henrik Kubel of A2-Type & Geetika Alok for Indian issue of Wallpaper. Also check out Copan by Julia for the Brazilian issue.

Essenz

Get it at typemanufactur, Georg Salden's foundry

Larisch Neue

If you look for some unconvenitonal (but still functional) fonts, take a look at Radim Peško's site

Simplon

BPfoundry has changed its name to b+p swisstypefaces, redesigned the website and finally released Simplon, which is a good thing if you're looking for a technosans that is not DIN. Let's hope they'll finish New Fournier soon.

Spore custom type

While the type itself is not my cup of tea, it's an interesting write-up over at The Case and Point (bookmark them!)

Espinosa Nova

Amazing stuff from Cristóbal Henestrosa and the Regular cut is free!

Periodico

There is now an awesome newspaper type family available from emtype (Geogrotesque, Relato). I could marry that S!

Carter Sans

Carter Sans is out, but am I the only one who's not that impressed? I wonder why did Matthew Carter lend his name to the humanistic-seriffed Verdana? Having said that, it is still a great design, but I'm also afraid it's going to be overused in no time.