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Our Favorite Typefaces of 2008

Type designers, educators, historians, engineers, and users select the year’s best new font releases.

Marlene

Nikola Djurek

Archer

Glosa

Dino dos Santos

Baskerville 10

František Štorm, John Baskerville, Otakar Karlas

Studio Lettering

Ken Barber, Tal Leming

Compendium

Alejandro Paul

Stag

Christian Schwartz

Carmen

Andreu Balius
Colophon

Typographica is a review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design. Edited by Stephen Coles, also of
The FontFeed and The Mid-Century Modernist.

Founded in 2002 by Joshua Lurie-Terrell. Redesigned in 2009 by Chris Hamamoto and Stephen Coles.

Set in Georgia by Matthew Carter and Lucida Sans/Grande by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes

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