Soho Gothic Alternatives

The branding agency's client wanted an "ultra modern" typeface that was "futuristic without being gimmicky or ephemeral," according to... Read More

FF Fago is the quintessential corporate typeface, a result of many years of work within the challenges and requirements of complex... Read More

A grown-up, no-nonsense sibling to Erik Spiekermann’s popular FF Meta, FF Unit irons out many of the quirks of its predecessor, dialing... Read More

FF Zwo started as a constructivist concept, which was abandoned over time in favor of something more functional. Its final resulting... Read More

Following Generis, Aeonis is Erik Faulhaber’s second large type family. Lapidary inscriptions from Ancient Greece supured Faulhaber on to create this typeface’s basic sans serif forms. This clarity is visible in the simplified form of the typeface's capital A. Further inspiration came from a domed lamp designed in 1952 by Wilhelm Wagonfeld; this went on to inspire the roundness in Aeonis.... Read More

During planning for the new Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris at the beginning of the 1970s, it was determined that the airport's... Read More

This lively sans combines plain shapes with calligraphic touches. FF Sanuk’s roman letterforms are clean and crisply drawn, but their... Read More

Lucida is a family of fonts with one basic design, but offered in two variations. It has both serif and sans serif characters. Lucida is suitable for books/text, documentation/business reports, posters, advertisement, multimedia.

FF Enzo is a vigorous Scandinavian sans. Drawn by Swedish designer Tobias Kvant, the family comes in five weights from Thin to Black, each complete with companion italic. Inspired by past and present type styles, the face achieves a unique look; this mix of various sans serif design currents creates a quite contemporary, lively texture. The design features a high x-height with particularly... Read More

Through his hands-on experience choosing fonts as a graphic designer, type newcomer André Simard developed a type family with a good measure of design sensibility. His ITC Migration™ Sans suite of fonts offers five readable weights that can be utilized across a variety of projects. Expect more to come from this designer-turned-typophile.

Created for magazine and newspaper headlines, FF Turmino is probably the first typeface that inverts the usual relation between weight and width. In other words: the heavier the font the more condensed it is. When using the family for newspapers or magazines it is now possible for the first time ever to set more text in Black than in Normal or Light. The result is a happy little family that... Read More

FF Zwo started as a constructivist concept, which was abandoned over time in favor of something more functional. Its final resulting forms create a legible and clear face, rigid and sturdy, but with a decidedly contemporary handling. The design spreads out over eight weights, each with italics and small caps. Single-story “a” and “g” alternates are included, as well as stemless “u.” A... Read More

During designer Felix Braden’s search for an offline companion to the Verdana typeface, he set off on the development of a new series of... Read More

The ITC Stone Sans II typeface family is new from the drawing board up. Sumner Stone, who designed the original faces in 1988, recently collaborated with Delve Withrington and Jim Wasco of Monotype Imaging to update the family of faces that bears his name. Sumner was the lead designer and project director for the full-blown reworking – and his own greatest critic.The collaborative design effort... Read More

Eurostile Next is Linotype's redrawn and expanded version of Aldo Novarese's 1962 design. This new version refers back to the original... Read More

Folio® was designed by Konrad F. Bauer and Walter Baum, and released in several weights and widths by the Bauer Type Foundry from 1956 to 1963. This legible sans serif family was designed around the same time as Helvetica, and in many ways it is quite similar to Helvetica. There are some notable differences in certain characters, like the lowercase a, and the caps G and Q. The designers of... Read More