Spanning three widths and five weights, the resulting typeface maintains unexpected quirks and delights and is capable of a wide range of expressions. While the name may be French for “apothecary,” Alejandro Paul and his team found inspiration in an antique German design dating back to the late 19th century. (And hey: If you forgot to buy a little something for the designer in your life this holiday season, it’s worth mentioning that fonts are a fantastic gift, and require no shipping …) ApothicaireĪrgentinian foundry Sudtipos routinely turns out top-notch type-and their latest release, Apothicaire, is indeed just the medicine we need for the winter blues.
Herewith: 25 of our favorites new typefaces from 2020. (Speaking of subjectivity: As for PRINT’s own awesome typeface, Role-we’d have featured it, had it not been released in 2019.) We saw a lot of type that we loved in 2020-and throughout the year, as always, we catalogued it, notably in our Type Tuesday column.Īs we head into 2021, we’ve rounded up 25 of our favorite faces-a highly subjective list, as all such lists are, given structure by alphabetical order.
