15 Novel Typefaces Designed In 2014
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Producing a typeface requires not only an abundance of creative energy but also great skill and technique to deliver a unique script family. Thousands of typographers are busy creating a plethora of typefaces and many portfolios stand out. Yet there are hundreds whose work doesn’t cut it well enough. They fail to manage client expectations as well as their own. Therefore, we decided to bring you some of the best typefaces that have been introduced in 2014 so far. Most of these are selected on the overall quality of design and usage. They are not free but they would surely add value to your creative projects. Have a look!
1. GT Sectra
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Designed by: Marc Kappeler, Dominik Huber, Noël Leu
Released in 2014, GT Sectra comes in a variety of 30 styles available for desktop, web, and app licensing. It is a contemporary serif typeface that combines the edginess of the scalpel knife with the broad nip pen calligraphy. It was originally designed for journalistic purpose but now developed into three subfamilies: GT Sectra GT Secra Fine, and GT Sectra Display.
2. Abelina
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Designed By: Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari
Yanina Arabena is a Typographer, graphic designer, and Calligrapher who designed “Abelina” initially. But the beautiful typeface is now reborn as “Abelina Pro” by Guillermo Vizzari in collaboration with Ale Paul from Sudtipos. The Pro version maintains the dynamic rhythm of composition and a solid style. There are over a thousand glyphs available to easily merge the elements of typography with calligraphy.
3. Sanelma
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Designed By: Mike Melvas
Sanelma is a versatile script which can be easily customized for packaging design, logo design, and titles. It is a smooth brush script created with inspiration from Hot Rod Lettering and sign painting. It has over twelve hundred glyphs including many alternate characters, swash caps, end swashes, and small caps, etc. It is a beautiful flowy script created by Mika Melvas in 2014.
4. Wonderhand
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Designed By: Martina Flor
I liked this new font by Martina Flor for its extensive variety of scripts designed in seven widths and three weights. Also, it presents a third design axis, the slant, presenting an upright 0° cut, 20° cut and a 40° cut for each. To justify the hand-written quality, each cut has a unique character and appearance of its own. It is packed with icons and decorative elements that provide several possibilities in layout design.
5. Belleville FY
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Designed By: Benjamin Lieb, Gia Tran
Belleville is the new script in town with four styles as well as four weights. It is an original sixteen retro and modern font family that is inspired from the 19th century wood type and modern slab fonts. It also has elements inspired from Graffitis and the Art Nouveau Movement. The typeface is well suited to be used for logos, posters, headlines, packaging and signage. You can use it for pretty much any project you want related to branding and marketing.
6. Fixen FY
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Designed By: Yannick Fischer and Fontyou Team
This new typeface is a hit for both print and electronic media with is flared pointed serifs and its chiseled structure. It is especially well suited for the headlines but equally good for a smaller size. Co-created by Yannick Fischer and the Fontyou Team, these freely interpreting engraved letters provide a texture that is strong, trendy, and delicate due to the systematic and aesthetically pleasing cuts into the letter shapes.
7. Nanami Handmade
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Designed By: Alex Haigh
Here comes the celebrity font! It is indeed one of the best follow-ups to a font family as the original Nanami that was introduced last year easily overtook the world of Type by storm and quickly ascended to the top position on the MyFonts Hot New Fonts list. Then there was Nanami Rounded, which is now followed by an even perkier typeface Nanami Handmade. It comes in two styles; a solid and a hand-drawn, containing eight weights each. Alex Haigh from UK has done an amazing job on this typeface.
8. Meeko FY
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Designed By: Valentine Proust and Fontyou Team
Meeko FY is an elegant, warm, and an up to date typeface that works super well for headlines, logo design, and posters. It is a singular display type with both friendly and high contrasted shapes. The font combines various typographic styles such as didone, incised and the calligraphic shapes; but it also has some original letters like R or k which keep it unique enough.
9. NOH Squadra
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Designed By: Nach Oh!
This is a serif typeface of more than 220 characters which create a perfect combination of the typefaces of his style and unconventional pen calligraphy. It is modern, chic, and tastefully crafted with an imposing and strong appearance. The type is modifiable to suit the needs of superior graphic content in small and large format. It can be great for packaging design, logos, posters, and editorial headlines.
10. Lugatype
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Designed By: Cyrill Tkachev
This type of font is best used in the field of marketing. They are used to make posters, magazines, logos, branding products, making titles and for corporate branding. This font type is also used to design commercial or public display signs and symbols.
11. Clasica
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Designed By: Enrique Hernandez
Clasica font type is a geometric slab serif that is inclusive of 9 weights with italics and also has glyphs for letters a, e, g, r and y. This font type is ideal for cover designs, titles, magazines, posters, books, logos and editorials. Clasica font type can be most easily identified because of the thinness of its vertical strokes and symmetrical serif.
12. Rusulica Script
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Designed by: Marin Santic
You would love the flow of this premium script. It is a decorative font yet stable and very practical. With around 490 glyphs, created with special attention to diacritically marked letters, Rusulica Script can be used as both a stand-alone display font or as a compliment to another. It works super well with open type-friendly applications.
13. Bandera Cyrillic
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Designed By: Andrij Shevchenko
Bandera is Spanish for ‘Flag’ and it serves as the symbol of Ukrainian fighting for freedom for many years now. It is a square serif typeface with a modern tool for text design that is well-designed and legible. The Bandera Cyrillic typeface shares main proportions with sans serif Osnova Pro typefamily so works ideally when combined with it. Don’t forget to check its Pro version for pan-European support, i.e. complete Latin-Greek-Cyrillic.
14. Algo FY
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Designed By: Michel Derre and Fontyou Team
Algo FY works as a rustic, sculptural and dynamic font family. It was created by Michel Derre who has been teaching Calligraphy for four decades now. This is his first font family created in collaboration with the Fontyou Team this year. The typeface is singular as a font family with broken ductus and a black letter aspect. The powerfully differentiated instrokes and outstrokes provide a strong personality to this script along with spontaneous style. It’s an impressive font with distinctive shapes.
15. Campan
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Designed By: Dieter Hofrichter
German typographer Dieter Hofrichter launched the Campan font family this year which comprises of a mono-line and classic elements creating a brand new semi-linear face. The type is available in 12 styles, and works great for ambitious typography. It provides OpenType format with extended language support. Each weight contains proportional lining figures, proportional old style figures, tabular lining figures, lining old style figures, ligatures, matching currency symbols, small caps, fraction, along with scientific numerals and matching arrows.
Hope you enjoyed our Typography 2014 extravaganza and found something of use or interest in this post. Let us know what other typefaces caught your attention this year and which ones you plan on using from the ones featured in this post.
