Rob Leuschke’s foundry, TypeSETit, describes their current best-seller Corinthia in just two words: “Elegant font.” That’s something of an understatement. Like all of Leuschke’s scripts, Corinthia displays the designer’s dazzling craftsmanship, acquired while working at Hallmark Cards and as a designer of custom fonts and lettering. Corinthia is gracious and more formal than some of Leuschke’s other steady sellers such as Inspiration and Ambiance, but it is never stiff or stuffy. It connects beautifully into a confident cursive flow. A perfect script for invitations or classy packaging.

Earlier this year the insigne foundry presented Sommet, Jeremy Dooley’s take on the popular model of the computer-age simplified sans-serif. Sommet Rounded, the new variant, enhances the typeface’s retro-futurist feel by rounding off the terminals. Sommet Rounded does not look very different from its predecessor — its condensed, squarish silhouette and angled horizontals are immediately recognizable — but the overall impression is friendlier and less formal. In a layout requiring a wider range of type styles, the new variant can be easily mixed with the original Sommet. It has several figure styles as well as small caps, which you won’t find among the font’s OpenType functions — but they’re there!

Columbian designer Manuel Eduardo Corradine has been hugely successful with his recent bunch of releases. His informal scripts Memoria and Salpicon are doing very well and Happy Day is one of this month’s absolute best sellers. With its range of weights and shadowed versions, the Happy Day family gives you access to the kind of crazy comic-book alphabets ideal for kids’ projects or scrapbooking. You can use the Black version as a “filler” for the Black Shadow, although that requires some tweaking: they aren’t designed to line up seamlessly. The festive dingbats are ideal for adding pizzazz to any birthday party invitation.

Bohemian Filigree is, as they say, a beautiful mess. Its 19th-century-style capitals and numerals show signs of wear and tear in various degrees and directions of corrosion. The upper- and lowercase sets are whimsical collections of letterforms that may be large or small, light or dark, straightforward or ornamented. This can be great fun if you like surprises, and will no doubt lend a sense of Bohemian anarchy to your greeting cards, newsletters, scrapbook journaling, and other desktop publications.