K-Type

NEW FONTS

Excite

Excite is a neo-grotesque typeface family named after an x-height that’s as tall as you can get without compromising the distinction between upper and lower case, helping to make it extremely readable both in print and on screen. It is modern and spacious, has short ascenders and descenders, and an airiness augmented by using both horizontal and vertical endings of open characters like C, S and 3. Unusually for a neo-grotesque, Excite has a clean, contemporary, single storey lowercase A.

Bolshy

Bolshy is a stroppy font whose x-height has got ideas above its station, it’s ended up being equal to the cap height. Bolshy doesn’t go completely Bauhaus, and although the boundaries are somewhat blurred, the distinction between upper and lower case just about remains intact. There is something slightly Cyrillic about Bolshy’s bulbous terminals, exotic shapes and condensed curvature.

Transport New (Heavy, Medium, Light)

Transport New is a redrawing of the typeface designed for British road signs. In addition to the familiar Heavy and Medium weights, Transport New includes the previously unreleased Light weight font originally planned for back-lit signage but never actually applied. The original Transport font has subtle eccentricities which add to its distinctiveness, and drawing the New version has involved walking a tightrope between impertinently eliminating awkwardness and maintaining idiosyncrasy.

Openline

An open inline typeface with a clean, modern feel; Openline offers a more contemporary alternative to Art Deco inlines from the 1920s. Both Regular and Bold versions are included.

Celtica

Celtica is a kind of Helvetica meets Hibernia, the font can happily be used anywhere a Celtic identity is required for a twenty-first century context. The ubiquity and clarity of the sans-serif lends legibility to the uncial forms of some letters which become accessible to any audience of latin alphabet users. Even the ‘insular’, flat-topped G/g, is readable enough for general use in an increasingly popular and diverse typographical culture. The fonts contain Irish lenited consonants (with dot accents), Tironian et, and extra Welsh vowels.

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