Ben Kiel’s new typeface Ballast is here, hot on the heels of the release of Cedar. Version 0.1 of both typefaces are available exclusively from Future Fonts. Ballast’s strong but playful voice comes from a unique strategy to shift weight into balance while maintaining tight clearances. Bulky shapes pack into spaces carved out of other strokes, creating curled counterforms that provide a diversion from the monotonous rhythm of slab serifs.
Our upcoming typeface Cedar has made an early debut, exclusively on Future Fonts. Designed by Jesse Ragan, Cedar’s puzzling system wraps rudimentary vector shapes around calligraphic structures in a hand-carved aesthetic.
One of our most rewarding experiences as type designers is seeing the fonts we’ve created used well, so we love Fonts In Use, the public archive of typography. Here are just a few wonderful and unexpected examples—you can see more at fontsinuse.com.
Thank you to the graphic designers who make our work worthwhile!
Aglet Sans is the new streamlined companion to our previous release Aglet Slab, sensitively redrawn but springing from the same ethos: roundness is a disposition, not mere ornament. Narrow and straight-sided, Aglet Sans playfully exploits a system of angles and corner radiuses to arrive at a vocabulary of shapes that becomes more diverse and intriguing as it grows heavier, and feels as at home in editorial design and corporate branding as it does on the web.
Released last month, Jesse Ragan's Study is the result of a hypothetical dialogue with Rudolph Ruzicka. In a new post on our site, Jesse details the process behind bringing the design from a hand-painted alphabet to a comprehensive digital typeface family. With historical background and analysis of design decisions, the piece provides a personal look at how one typeface was made.
Our newest typeface has been waiting fifty years to be finished.
Study is based on an alphabet concept by designer and engraver Rudolph Ruzicka, first published in 1968 but never completed as a typeface. Now our own Jesse Ragan has reimagined it as a stunning 12-style family, full of unexpected twists and turns.
Great news—all of our fonts are now available on Fontstand and Adobe Typekit, for desktop use and as hosted webfonts. We’re proud to partner with our friends at these two unique font licensing platforms.
We’re proud to unveil XYZ Type, our new independent type foundry. This marks the debut of Aglet Slab and Export, two original typefaces, joined by our previous release, Cortado.
Free trial versions of every font are available on our site, so we hope you’ll download them and put them to work. We can’t wait to see where they end up.
