Now Ropa Sans Arabic adds the Arabic script to its considerable linguistic arsenal.ĭalton Maag expanded the language support of their all-purpose sans serif family Aktiv Grotesk - a viable alternative to overused neo-grotesques - to include Thai, Devanagari, Hebrew, and Arabic. Lettersoup’s popular Ropa Sans - also available in Soft and Mix finishes - already boasted support for Extended Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic. During Anaqa’s development, it became clear that the typeface also works with other humanist sans serifs like Gibson, Informa, and Davis Sans. Canada Type, for example, has produced Anaqa, a contemporary Arabic companion to the popular Semplicita. More and more foundries are exploring Arabic type design. Skolar Sans is also available in Gujarati and Arabic now, and the affable Nassim Arabic was designed from the outset as an Arabic-Latin family. The pan-European (PE) families Clone Rounded PE, Avory I PE, and Skolar Sans PE support all Cyrillic-script, Latin-script, and Greek languages. The sturdy text face Arek now has a counterpart for Armenian, an underserved script. Rosetta Type Foundry addresses the needs of global typography by collaborating with native type designers to create innovative fonts for a polyphonic world. Some letters were adopted from old Hangul - others are new designs based on the principles of Hangul. The typeface inserts new, phonetic Hangul characters to allow for the correct pronunciation of foreign locations and names. NohType’s Noh Sori is a new Hangul design project for phonetic transcription of foreign letters that don’t exist in Korean. In the new Glatt variants, Dunkel Sans’ lively strokes have been straightened for a tighter, more geometric appearance. Minjoo Ham has expanded her electrifying display face Dunkel Sans with additional styles and widths. It is not all new foundries, though: Visual Design Laboratory adds the friendly, rounded monoline VDL-PenLetter and two striking Mincho designs, VDL-GothicMincho and VDL-KuroMincho, to their library of Japanese fonts. Discover their modern geometric designs with boxlike or rounded stroke endings and different levels of squareness, or wrap yourself in the comforting blanket of their more traditional calligraphic creations. This results in unique and novel typefaces that nevertheless feel familiar.
Tokyo-based Kinuta Font Factory - the third new Japanese foundry on Adobe Fonts - develops fonts that inject contemporary accents into traditional letterforms. Eschewing artifice and displaying a great design sensibility, the foundry produces strong, well-balanced fonts characterized by versatility. TYPE-LABO aims to create typefaces that users and readers alike will enjoy by conveying meaning beyond textual content. These kanji characters are selected from character-frequency data compiled by newspaper companies, publishing houses, and linguistic research organizations - the character set also includes additional kana syllabic characters and punctuation marks.Īnother new foundry is TYPE-LABO, home of Yutaka Satoh, one of Japan’s leading independent type designers. Because fewer characters were needed in the phototypesetting era, the foundry selected a core set of 1,000 kanji (ideographic) characters required for typesetting Japanese. New Japanese foundry Font1000 questions how many of the 7,000 characters in the JIS standard are actually necessary.
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