Designed by Bea Korsh
Distributed by Future Fonts

This font review was written in English and translated into Portuguese (BR—below). The Museu da Língua Portuguesa, in São Paulo, is the venue of diverse exhibitions with hands-on activities about Linguistics and Portuguese language developments.

Fellow Type@Cooper alumni Bea Korsh probably graced us with the freshest type release of 2024. Where to start? That I’ve never seen anything like it. Or the fact version 0.1 already has 70 interlocking ligatures. Or maybe the foresaw standalone Inline style—that’s simply dazzling. Let’s take it from the top, Henmania is a stencil typeface with meshed warped strokes and a slightly forward-leaning feel planned to grow to a 5-weight family—a playground of pure creativity!

Designed by Sabina Chipară
Distributed by Type-Ø-Tones

This font review was originally written in Spanish. There are more than 45 million speakers in Argentina. Guarani and Quechua are other important languages in this country. The English translation of the review is below.

Joc Display es una tipografía que propone mucho juego y está inspirada en formas geométricas. Es perfecta para crear patrones y composiciones que necesitan impacto. Podríamos argumentar que nada supera a esta categoría tipográfica para diseñar títulos o encabezados. Su diseño incita a explorar y experimentar al momento de usarla. Considero que su propuesta osada y personal la vuelve perfecta para logotipos y aplicaciones de gran formato. 

La estructura y forma de sus signos se desprende de los bloques de madera que fueron el centro de la exposición de Sara San Gregorio: Juguetoría. A l’alçada del Joc curada por Helena Ayuso Moli y Anna Roigé Barrull en el Centro de Arte La Panera de Lleida, España. La exposición proponía a los niños de 5 a 9 años crear sus propios juguetes combinando esos bloques de madera. La lógica propuesta por este juego y sus formas han sido traducidas por Sabina para crear JOC. El espíritu del diseño gráfico de principios de los años 70 también es una gran influencia en las formas geométricas que caraterizan a esta tipografía.

Designed by Valentina Casali
Distributed by CAST

This font review was written in English and translated into Portuguese (BR—below). Portuguese makes use of five diacritics: the cedilla (ç), acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú), circumflex accent (â, ê, ô), tilde (ã, õ), and grave accent (à) to mark the contraction of two consecutive vowels in adjacent words (crasis).

Valentina has been on my radar for a while. It’s no secret how much I hate working on connected scripts, so I will forever be amazed by people who can do it well. Combine that with gorgeous ornamental lettering and sharp letter carvings, and you would be crazy not to watch her work. First, was Pritzious, conceived during the Type Design Expert Class at the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp (2021–2022), and now she is back with AM Majella—a revival of the homonymous wood typeface, Majella (released by Xilografia di Verona between 1937-1939).