Designed by Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
Available at Google Fonts
Font family: 4 weights for every handwriting model. 68 handwriting models from 40 countries.

This font review was originally written in Spanish. In Colombia alone, there are more than 43 million native Spanish speakers. English translation below.

Las fuentes tipográficas suelen pasar desapercibidas, pero su impacto es profundo. Como demuestra Playwrite, pueden trascender su función estética para convertirse en puentes educativos. Detrás de cada trazo de lápiz hay un mundo de conexiones neuronales, memoria y creatividad. Aunque vivimos en una era digital, aprender a escribir a mano sigue siendo un pilar formativo esencial. El desafío surge cuando cada región del mundo enseña este arte con estilos y métodos distintos. La solución llegó de la mano de Playwrite. Diseñada por Typetogether y disponible en Google Fonts, Playwrite es más que un conjunto de letras. Es una herramienta pedagógica que se moldea a las particularidades de más de 40 países, desde la cursiva vertical de Francia hasta la escritura simplificada de Finlandia.

Designed and distributed by Giulia Boggio

This font review was written in English and translated into Dutch, a language spoken by about 30 million people worldwide.

Giulia B. is a multimedia designer based in London (UK), focusing mainly on type, graphic, and web design.

Monospaced fonts are a personal favourite and I had to shine a light on this editorial fixed-width for our Alphabettes Font Reviews 2024 segment. Sometimes, it seems that typefaces these days are by default superfamilies, covering every possible weight, width, style, optical size, and taking on any possible typographic application they face. Well—let’s flip that coin for a second and focus on this striking single-style design.

Designed by Mark Bloom and Diana Ovezea
Distributed by CoType
Typeface family: 4 sub-families, 6 weights. 24 fonts

This text was originally written in Romanian, the official language of Romania and Moldova, spoken by 25 million people. The English version of the review is below.

Lock, creat de Mark Bloom & Diana Ovezea, este prima superfamilie tipografică în catalogul CoType Foundry, îmbinând stilurile serif și sans-serif, alături de varianta stencil.Conceput ca un sistem unitar, și nu ca stiluri separate, Lock echilibrează contrastul și coeziunea, fiind o alegere versatilă pentru designerii care caută flexibilitate și impact vizual.

Designed by Diana Ovezea
Distributed by Blast Foundry 
Typeface family: 6 weights, 2 styles (upright + italic), and 2 optical sizes. 24 fonts

This text was originally written in German, a language with more than 90 million speakers worldwide. The English version (Thank you Dan Reynolds!) of the review is below.

Ich hasse einkaufen. Ausgenommen Schriften.

2021 bin ich via Future Fonts über die Schrift »Bizzarri« von Diana Ovezea/Blast Foundry gestolpert und war sofort schockverliebt. Wenn ihr eine ausgefallene Schrift sucht, die eigenständig, eckig, laut, egozentrisch und detailverliebt um die Ecke kommt, dann liegt ihr mit der »Bizzarri« auf dem richtigen Kurs.