Five faces I would like to see

[Riccardo Sartori]

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Often here on Typophile’s Critique forums are presented some beautiful typefaces.
As it happens, some of them gather a good deal of attention, while others will receive just a comment or two.
What I very rarely have seen happening is the designer coming back to the thread announcing the release of the font.
That said, here’s a short chronological list of fonts I would really like to see released in my lifetime:

• Tierra Nueva, by Sebastian Nagel * RELEASED! (see first comment by Jens)
  https://typography.guru/forums/topic/25535-forwarding
• Epiphany, by Oleg Macujev
  https://typography.guru/forums/topic/57571-forwarding
• Ernestine, by Nina Stössinger
  https://typography.guru/forums/topic/60670-forwarding
• Ambicase Modern, by Craig Eliason
  https://typography.guru/forums/topic/70316-forwarding

And, while to my knowledge it wasn’t ever submitted for critique, I would add the regular guest of the Type ID Board:

• Noir, by Frode Helland
  https://typography.guru/forums/topic/72447-forwarding

[Jens Kutilek]

One down, four to go: https://fdi-type.de/fonts/tierra-nueva/

Lucky you 😉

[Riccardo Sartori]

I knew I should’ve double-checked!
But that just confirms my statement about the lack of announcements… ;-)

And there are typefaces you would like to see published?

[eliason]

Assuming you're in good health, you will see Ambicase Modern released in your lifetime. In fact, I think before summer is gone.

I'd add

• Telefon, by Sindre Bremnes
• Mint and/or Feldspar, by Ben Mitchell

[Igor Freiberger]

I'd like to see Gecko by Ben Mitchell released.

[Riccardo Sartori]

These are good news! :-)
And good additions too.

[Frode Bo Helland]

Wow. Thanks! I’d love to see Sindre’s stuff too. And Ambicase Modern is just sick!

[Riccardo Sartori]

It seems that Ben will feel a lot of pressure… ;-)

[Sebastian Nagel]

i apologize for not announcing it here yet - you just came a few days early with this thread :)

tierra nueva was released just two days ago - on ralf herrmanns label fonts.info. as this site is quite germany/europe centred, i wanted to wait until it is available on myfonts.com too, which should happen in just a few days.

I'll update the developement thread right after that, and I guess ralf will post a thread in the release section too.

[nina]

Thanks! Ernestine is in progress.
And no worries, I'll announce it for sure. :-)

[Bendy]

Wow, I'm feeling bashful! Thanks Craig for pointing me to this thread :D

Once I'm back at my desk, I'll have to decide which order to try and finish these fonts in. You bet I'll keep you updated! For me all this has to fit around my career in comms too. And some day I really hope to make it to one of these type events, and meet some of you guys too!

In addition to the above mentioned fonts (which I wholeheartedly agree with), I'm very fond of Peggo's Farola and probably some others that I can't find on this — aah — slow connection right now.

[Bendy]

Here's one more I'd like to see Pomona Display, looks like it might have gone off the boil unfortunately.

[Riccardo Sartori]

I think Pomona actually shipped as Patchouli (with swashes!):
http://www.bvfonts.com/fonts/details.php?id=88

[Bendy]

Ah well there we are...very nice indeed. Thanks for the link Riccardo :)

[eliason]

Ambicase Modern has been released!

[Riccardo Sartori]

Wonderful news, Craig! :-)

Two down, three to go, and one seems very near…

[Riccardo Sartori]

The “one very near” seems lost again…

But Noir is finally up for critique! :-)
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/92518-forwarding

[Bendy]

It's looking like Mint is going to be my first one published, possibly by the end of the year.

[Riccardo Sartori]

!!!
Herzliche Glückwünsche, Nina!
:-)

[nina]

Here's a sentence I've been looking forward to writing for years:
FF Ernestine is now available. :-)
https://www.fontfont.com/fonts/ernestine

Edit: And there's a website for it:
http://ernestinefont.com

[eliason]

Word is that Telefon (on my list of long-awaited releases) is coming soon!

[Riccardo Sartori]

And I don’t know why, but i think the word could be “Monokrom” ;-)

[quadibloc]

The mention of Ernestine in this thread reminds me... while a Latin character set in Arek is yet to be made available, somehow I remember seeing in recent web searches something that resembled what I would expect it to look like...

EDIT: A web search has convinced me that I am mistaken. Even though I did find something that almost looks like Arek in the Latin alphabet: Alice, designed by another typographer who came from the same educational institution... and thus at almost the same time and place.

http://typemedia09.com/index.php?/graduates/marta-bernstein/
http://www.martabernstein.com/index.php?/type/alice/

But I don't think it was what I imagined I saw before.

EDIT: Legionary, from Tkachev, also resembles or suggests Arek, although being quite different from Alice.

[Frode Bo Helland]

Vinter (née Noir) + Telefon is out today: Monokrom.no. So is Satyr, Faunus and Aften Screen.

[Karl Stange]

Frode, I love the website, it shows off the typefaces perfectly. Really great work.