With Monumenta Pro, the Parachute foundry takes the Latin alphabet right back to where its roots lie — to Athens, Greece. The success of Trajan (a staple of movie titles) has already inspired several other revivals of the Roman inscriptional capitals, such as the well-equipped Jupiter. So how is Monumenta Pro different? As it was designed in the land of Alpha and Omega, it naturally comes with a perfectly drawn Greek character set; it also supports Cyrillic. What makes the Monumenta family especially attractive and versatile are its open varieties: the Shaded version is virtually identical to the Regular, but with a finely carved inline. “Metallic” is slightly bolder and simulates three-dimensional metallic lettering. Elegant!

The London-based Kapitza sisters — Nicole and Petra — have created a versatile library of picture and ornament fonts. Their collection includes beautifully crafted silhouettes of people (such as Victoria Park), geometric dingbats and snow crystals. But their most popular sets are those that picture botanical forms. We Love Nature is their most recent offering in this genre: a vaseful of lively stem flowers. The crisp outline illustrations are characteristically well drawn, with a minimum of vector points. The pictures are equally interesting as single illustrations and in multi-colored combinations.

Harry is one of those fonts you may have seen a million times without being able to name it. Published in 1966 by VGC, Harry was ubiquitous in the book and record cover design of the late ’60s and early ’70, and is typical of its time: clean, geometric, unorthodox and jazzy. Its main designer was Marty Goldstein, co-founder of the groundbreaking Creative Black Book, who named the typeface after his father. For this recent digital revival, the people at the Red Rooster Collection added four new weights to the original six.

Aphrodite Slim is the lighter sister of Aphrodite Pro, one of this year’s best selling script typefaces from Buenos Aires’ Typesenses. Its designers have more or less been growing up in public, and this new version shows a remarkable leap in ambition. Aphrodite Slim Pro has duplicated the number of characters of its partner, reaching a total of more than 1000 glyphs, including a large number of pre-designed words and syllables in English, French, Spanish and German. It is more delicate and more meticulously drawn than its predecessor, tapping into a variety of calligraphic styles. The result is a curious but attractive hybrid, combining elements from uncial, copperplate and cancelleresca scripts — and more. If you’re interested in Aphrodite Slim’s complex pedigree, check out the text on the font page.