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Best of 2017 – Serif + Slab

A round-up of our favorite Serifs and Slabs released in 2017.

Noah Nazir
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Last edited September 17, 2018

2017 was a year full of fabulous font releases, so much so, that we couldn’t fit them in one list! So, we have three Best Of Lists for 2017, this time with our top ten favorite Serifs and Slabs.

brandy
enthusiastic
Move fast and break stuff

The Handel Gothic™ typeface has been a mainstay of graphic communication for over 40 years - all the while looking as current as tomorrow. Designed by Don Handel in the mid-1960s, and used in the 1973 United Airlines logo developed by Saul Bass, Handel Gothic was an instant success when released to the graphic design community. Its generous lowercase x-height, full-bodied counters and square... Read More

winter
fiddlesticks
Law prohibits underwater smoking

Wolpe Pegasus maintains all the inconsistencies and oversized, mismatched serifs of Berthold Wolpe’s original typeface, and incorporates them into a design tuned for 21st-century print and digital environments. Monotype type designer, Toshi Omagari, also added an italic bold weight, a suite of small capital letters, and an extra set of numerals and glyphs for modern usage. Long and short-form... Read More

Donald Handel, Nadine Chahine and Rod McDonald
ITC 2010
Xavier Dupré
TypeTogether
Juan Bruce
TypeTogether 2017
Eugene Yukechev
FontFont 2016
Jeremy Dooley
insigne 2017
Jan Fromm
Jan Fromm 2017

Sudtipos
Jan Maack
FontFont 2016

FaceType
Berthold Wolpe and Toshi Omagari
Monotype 1937