2001 Recent Releases

Find a new favorite font as we premier the latest typefaces and type families.

Maidenhead & Cruz Handy
Richard Yeend & Ray Cruz
November 2001

Named after a small English town on the River Thames, Maidenhead is dynamic, tactile, and downright striking. Cruz Handy, designed by Ray Cruz, mimics the quick, broad-brush lettering of a hand-painted sign.

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Mustang Sally, Tugboat Annie and Woodley Park
Nick Curtis
October 2001

Nick Curtis’s love affair with typography began in an alley. During a routine boyhood hunt for tossed treasures in his East Dallas neighborhood, young Nick came across a fat green binder displaying hundreds of fonts. It was his first contact with a type specimen catalog, and he was hooked.

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GitchHand and Arty
Ken Gitschier & Barbara Mendelsohn
September 2001

These two designers add their distinctive flair to this months New Releases. GitchHand design has an almost painterly quality, while Arty combines cut-paper lettershapes with a hint of Ben Shahn’s poster lettering.

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Achtung Baby, DoubleBack & Adamantium
Richard Starkings & John “JG” Roshell
August 2001

Richard and John are the creators of some of the world’s greatest comic book fonts. Their work appears in most of the best-selling Marvel Comics on the market today, including Uncanny X-Men, Fantastic Four, and The Amazing Spider-Man.

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ITC CuppaJoe & ITC Ludwig
Nick Curtis & Giuseppe Errico
July 2001

The inspiration for ITC CuppaJoe comes from Art Deco lettering. ITC Ludwig has an edge. It’s nervous, tense — maybe even a little scary.

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Blockade & Spoleto
June 2001

Want to make a point, drive home a message, scream a product name? Blockade is the face for you! Soleto's uppercase shapes commingle happily with lowercase letterforms in this vibrant design.

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Xander
Julius de Goede
May 2001

Based on the handwriting of the eminent Dutch typographer Alexander Verberne, Julius de Goede’s Xander typeface manages to be both sophisticated and whimsical.

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Steele Modern & Chicago Modern
Mike Adkins and James Stirling
April 2001

These two talented designers from The Fontry, an Oklahoma-based design and lettering studio, have carefully and sensitively reproduced many of Becker’s alphabets as digital fonts.

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ITC Rastko & ITC Aspera
Olivera Stojadinovic
March 2001

ITC Rastko began as a series of initial letters for a book of poetry. Aspera is the product of graphical experimentation with a special pointed brush used for making cyrillic characters.

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Architec & New Gothic Light
Hans Bacher
February 2001