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A brutal victory

Posted by in Awards on Oct/2020

While researching the typography trends for our 2020 Type Trends Look Book we became aware of the many influences of late 19th century sans serif typefaces on our contemporary taste for typeface design. We called this trend “brutal grotesque”, referring to the many quirks and mistakes easily found in vintage pre-digital lead type and printed specimens that had become distinguishing features in contemporary fonts. Slightly off proportions in letters, unexpected calligraphic solutions, uneven and slanted cuts, and the occasional appearance of type design most loved “wrong” feature: reverse contrast. Hagrid and Boring Sans – both presented in the 2020 Trend Book – were our first published explorations in this style. But both were designed while working on a more complex project that ended up being published as the last of our “brutal style” typefaces, that has been chosen as one of the winners of Communication Arts Magazine 11th Annual Typography Competition …

Zetafonts wins the Communication Arts Typography Competition 2020

Posted by in Awards, Promotion on Jan/2020

Monterchi type family was created for the rebranding of one of the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, the Madonna del Parto fresco by Piero della Francesca. His hand-painted autograph inscriptions inspired the elegant letterforms and the quirky ligature forms included in the four variants of this 50-weights ode to the beauty of classical roman letterforms. Monterchi Type Family has been chosen as one of the winners of the 2020 Typography Competition by Communication Arts Magazine. One hundred and thirty-one projects were selected by a jury of creative professionals; 1,264 entries were submitted to the competition. With his elegant, historical aesthetic, Monterchi embodies the spirit of early Renaissance and the humanist obsession with geometric beauty, while providing designers with over a versatile extended glyph set covering over 200 languages using the Latin alphabet, as well as Greek and Russian Cyrillic. […]