The phenomenal success of Pluto from HVD Fonts has left us all in awe here at MyFonts. The immediate appeal of its friendly shapes, combined with an introductory offer that sounded almost too good to be true, immediately convinced hundreds of our users, carrying the newborn star to the highest spot of both our Hot New Fonts list and our Bestseller list. Even at its current list price, the Pluto family is an excellent value, with Normal and Condensed weights in two widths — 16 fonts in all. Informal yet sturdy and readable, Pluto works well in both text and display settings, and is a good choice for cosmetics and food packaging and advertising — and so much more.

Guadalupe is very nice and a little crazy. In fact, with all the cheerful swashes and ligatures going on, this font from Latinotype might just as well have been called Guadaloop. With OpenType enabled layout software, the user has access to inventive combinations seldom seen before. How about an ‘si ’or ‘ri’ ligature? While in other fonts such novelties may seem far-fetched or a bit pompous, the lightness with which Guadalupe binds one character to the next is simply endearing. Combining the simplicity and clarity of a modern face with the flourish of an ornamental font, Guadalupe is a great choice for menus, luxury goods and romantic literature (the covers, not the body text). The Gota (‘drop’) variant adds tiny ball terminals for extra finesse.

Alejandro Paul drew Sugar Pie after some experiments trying to concoct an italic to match his successful Candy Script. As suspected, his first trials confirmed that “an italic Candy Script would be a bad idea. However, some of these trials showed conceptual promise of their own, so I decided to pursue them and see where they would go.” Where they went was what is now Sugar Pie: a lively bold script in a typical Sudtipos vein, recalling some of the clean brush scripts found in the different film type processes of late 1960s and early 1970s. Ideal for packaging design, Sugar Pie’s alternates and ligatures contain quite a few nice variations on the main character set (OpenType-enabled software recommended). Very likeable, very sweet.

Hipopotam Studio in Warsaw, Poland, is a great little design company that specializes in children’s books, from which they often create their font spin-off projects. Mr Black, a set of distorted capitals, was originally designed for a book titled Who eats Whom, which you can find on their wonderfully whimsical website. Designers Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielińscy based Mr Black on dry transfer lettering sheets used decades ago for making military maps. With just two lettering sheets at their disposal, damaged and almost used up, they made a rather complex font with detailed outlines (allowing for high resolution large-scale use) and up to three alternate versions for each letter. Grunge 2.0, so to speak.