Fira Sans is a typeface designed by Erik Spiekermann for the Firefox OS. Fira Sans is available in four weights with corresponding italics: light, regular, medium, and bold, and is free to download.
You can download the specimen here.
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Type Only
Unit Editions continues to impress me. They continue to pump-out these high-quality books with great work. The newest book Type Only looks like it’s awesome. Designed by Spin, and edited by Tony Brook, Claudia Klat and Adrian Shaughnessy. The book celebrates type unsupported by illustration or photography. Type Only features the work of over 100 graphic designers from Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA.
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FS Emeric
Fontsmith has released a lovely new typeface called FS Emeric. Design studio, Believe in, handled the the campaign, which consisted of a beautiful type specimen booklet, and a series of studio posters from studios like Pentagram, Build, NB Studio, Hey, Bibliotheque, and Non Format. Each poster has been designed with one specific weight of the FS Emeric typeface. Screen printed onto 175gsm Colorplan stock and hand numbered, each poster has a limited run of 50.
Numerografía Numbers
Something really beautiful about these numbers. It’s probably because I’m a sucker for schematic drawings. They were designed for a Yorokobu magazine section called “Numerografía”. Designed by a Spanish designer who goes by the name of Wete.
La Fabrique Typeface
Type foundry Colophon have released a new heavy sans-serif typeface called La Fabrique. It is available in a single weight in a limited edition of 100 copies. To accompany the release of the typeface, a set of A0 serigrapher posters were produced and a 12 page A5 booklet.
Neue Haas Grotesk
Font Bureau has created this wonderful mini-site all about the excellent typeface Neue Haas Grotesk. It explains the history of the face, along with a nice section on its features and what makes it different from Helvetica. An instant valuable resource.