Dutch designer Jos Buivenga made a splash with his first type family on MyFonts: Museo, a spirited semi-slab serif. His foundry, exljbris, has now released the typeface’s sans-serif companion, Museo Sans, offering the font’s medium “500” weight free of charge. As with Museo, the generosity is paying off — many users have decided to expand their collection with some of the non-free weights.

The original Museo’s most striking characteristics are in the whimsical shapes and placement of the asymmetric serifs. Lacking those signature accessories, Museo Sans may be less immediately recognizable — but that doesn’t mean it’s boring! Its clarity and legibility are remarkable, it has some lovely details and its wide range of numerals is both attractive and practical.

Philip Bouwsma is a prolific calligrapher and designer of script fonts; his recent Bouwsma Text has been hugely successful. With Mirabel, Bouwsma pays tribute to his mother, Beverly. Having developed her unique handwriting in the 1930s “in an act of teenage rebellion,” Mrs. Bouwsma adapted her style to the broad-nibbed Osmiroid fountain pen her son gave her in the 1960s and which she has used ever since.

The original handwriting is rich and varied, freely mixing loops and straight ascenders. This has allowed for the digital version to be split into two interchangeable fonts — one more flamboyant and informal, and the other more classically balanced. Both are equally delightful, and the flourishes are free for all.

Recently released by TypeTrust, Breuer Text is one of the coolest sans-serifs to have hit the shelves lately. In this age of no-frills sans, it is not an easy task to come up with something original; designer Silas Dilworth has done an impressive job. Avoiding the stroke-of-the-pen logic of a humanist sans, Breuer Text has a straightforward nuts-and-bolts structure but, despite the underlying squarish skeleton, is also rather elegant and reader-friendly. It is especially suited as a secondary typeface in a complex editorial design project, for pull quotes, running titles and subheads — check out the small caps and small caps figures — as well as moderate lengths of body copy. Interestingly, its designer suggests a more specific use: he sees Breuer Text as the ideal typeface “for instructional copy or safety warnings.” Breuer Text includes Small Caps, Old Style Figures and Tabular Figures.

Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero of the Andinistas foundry has definitely found a style of his own, and what’s more: through MyFonts he has also found an audience. He specializes in what could be described as “destructive penmanship,” producing one dirty script after another. The recent Heleodora is another variation on the theme to which earlier Andinistas releases such as Alcira and Ninja also danced. It is a family of three based on the same underlying drawing — Heleodora 2 and 3 are slanted and condensed versions of number 1.