Since today’s issue is dedicated to new type foundries, we had to pick a font family of the month from an awesome new type foundry. Reset is an independent type studio from Montevideo, Uruguay. Despite being new, the foundry is not run by amateurs: among other things, co-founder Fernando Díaz was previously the co-director of TipoType for over 10 years. Reset Type’s starting catalogue includes a few beauties, of which we picked Thermal Display, for reasons that seem obvious. Note that Thermal is also available in Text and Headline optical sizes.

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From Berlin, Germany, Stereo Typefaces is the new indie foundry of Mark Julien Hahn and Jan Robert Obst. With a clear focus on variable font design and research, their starting catalogue includes four font families, covering a variety of genres. Our favorite has to be Protest Grotesk, which was selected to be one of our font families of the month last year. Protest Grotesk is a geometric workhorse with a few distinctive features, such as deep ink traps. All their typefaces are available as variable fonts.

Say hello to Furniture, a new type and design studio based in New York City. Their first retail font release, Art Company Mono, is designed by studio head Regan Johnson with production support by Ruggero Magrì. The team decided to make this monospaced serif family available for licensing after years of use by some of their clients. Initially conceived as a display face, Art Company Mono is a serif typeface in which “the seemingly awkward created by monospace constraints were embraced and even exaggerated.” I find it lively and refreshing.

With over 15 years of experience under his belt, type designer Malou Verlomme launched his own foundry last year, called DOUBLE ZERO. He opened shop with two extensive superfamilies — one sans, one serif — of which the depth and diversity of work is staggering. They’re also both variable fonts, with four axes of variation: Optical Size, Weight, Italic, and Monospace. And since all fonts released via DOUBLE ZERO maintain the same relative proportions, they work great when paired together.

Meet Schrifteria, a type foundry started by Yulia Gonina in late 2022, with its first typeface published early 2023. Three typefaces are currently available, including Schrifted Sans, a geometric sans serif inspired by the city of Stockholm, with some interesting alternate characters to spice things up. Its serif counterpart, Schrifted Serif, was just added recently and is still in beta version. Note that all typefaces in the Schrifteria catalogue come with support for both Latin and Cyrillic.

Faire Type is the new Brooklyn-based type practice of Sabrina Nacmias and Maxime Gau. The indie foundry has gone live with a new website, and a starting retail catalogue of six typefaces. My personal favourite, Sprig Sans, is a friendly and geometric grotesk in eight weights (from Hairline to Super). Octave is also worth highlighting, a French Old Style typeface with small serifs and heavy-feeling bowls in letterforms. Both families are available as variable fonts, and come with a wide number of special characters like swash caps, ligatures, and alternates — including a set of emojis.

Cool Swedish design agency Kruppa Hosk has launched their own foundry wing, Kurppa Hosk Type or KH Type, where they provide typefaces developed from their decade of established client work and custom type services. They launched with four typefaces for sale: KH Teka, a neutral grotesque sans with an eye for branding, KH Giga, an energetic high-contrast editorial display serif, and two monospaced fonts intended for display use.

I’m not sure this qualifies as a “new foundry” but Labor & Wait made its apparition last year, as the the successor of Constellation (the type foundry that used to run vllg.com until its official closure). Therefore, all Constellation typefaces previously offered on vllg.com are now available on the new Labor & Wait site, of which my personal favourites are Cosmica and Polaris. They also added fresh releases, such as Obligato, a condensed font in a single Bold style, of which I find the arrows particularly cool.