Anyone who’s tried their hand at designing a typeface will know it’s a wildly difficult process, and to actually come out at the end with something attractive takes an extreme amount of skill, taste and patience. Type design isn’t for everyone, but typography is, and nearly every designer works with it every day. This is exactly why Type Release creator Sean Mitchell is here to share with you a list of 32 beautiful typefaces, all of which were released over the last month. These are his findings: 1. Reserves: Acronym A highly refined neo-grotesque sans-serif based on Helvetica and its modern-day variants. 2. Hoefler & Frereâ€"Jones: Landmark The signature alphabet of one of New York’s most significant buildings becomes a family of clear and colorful display fonts. 3. Letters from Sweden: Kumla Letters from Sweden’s first release in the “Fabrik Suite” — a project inspired by Swedish industry, factories and harbours. 4. Aesthetic Apparatus: Brass Rule Script A geometric upright script constructed in the vein of the experimental “brass rule letters” from the 1952 German typography book Hoffmann’s Schriftatlas, combined with mid-century commercial chrome emblems. 5. Latinotype: Sanchez Slab A new version, more robust, with straight edges that give it greater character and power. 6. TipoType: Amelia A geometric sans, with the softness of humanistic strokes. 7. Constell
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