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Commercial TypeStartling Spectator Paul Barnes has brought Alexander Wilson’s celebrated English No. 1 back to life.
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Commercial TypePlace’s place In collaboration with cabinetmakers Les Enfants Terribles, Julien Priez has built a prototype of a 3D specimen of his Place typeface.
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Commercial TypeOur new New Doric Caslon Doric gets a more straightlaced, versatile, and variable twin.
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Commercial TypeA bigger Place Julien Priez’s Place now has an even showier, sharper, more graceful companion: Place Display.
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Commercial TypeErik van Blokland’s Action Grotesque A variable-first, screen-first, reading-first sans serif joins the Action Collection.
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Commercial TypeCanela Arabic Khajag Apelian and Wael Morcos have adapted Canela’s graceful forms to Arabic.
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Commercial TypeSanomat News Paul Barnes has designed a variable version of the gently flared, quasi-inscriptional Sanomat as part of a digital overhaul of Helsingen Sanomat, art-directed by Anna Thurfjell Studio.
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Commercial Type2025 in review A highlight reel from a very busy year.
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Commercial TypeJan Tschichold exhibition in London Shaping Typography is a small exhibition chronicling the modernist period of the typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), curated by Paul Barnes and Fraser Muggeridge.
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Commercial TypeDelusse in the house A spiky-soft text serif from Sandrine Nugue is a playful response to one of the most iconic French typefaces of the twentieth century.
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Commercial TypeGuided licensing We’ve come up with a step-by-step way for our customers to license fonts beyond the standard desktop / web / app model.
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Commercial TypeFocal to the max Greg Gazdowicz’s stonewashed ode to soft newspaper sans serifs from the phototype era has a boisterous new partner.
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Commercial TypeRoyal Gothic’s staying power Paul Barnes has taken a boxy sans serif that first appeared as a single bold style in Britain around 1880 and has reimagined it as a complete seven-weight family for contemporary use.
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Commercial TypeEugenio comes out of the Vault Eugenio Serif, Eugenio Sans, and Eugenia—longtime residents of the Vault—have moved into the main Commercial Type library.
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Commercial TypeLettering for New York New York’s 2025 Yesteryear issue focuses on Broadway. Working from the iconic art deco lettering from the original 1975 poster for A Chorus Line, Christian Schwartz developed a full alphabet to tie…
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Commercial TypeCommercial Type Design Studio in Creative Boom The Commercial Type Design Studio was featured on Creative Boom.
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Commercial TypeShiva Nallaperumal’s path to Delegate An “American grotesk” combines function and beauty. Meet its designer.
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Commercial TypeCommercial Type Design Studio Launched in 2019 as a sibling of Commercial Type, and quietly relaunched in 2022 within the foundry, Commercial Type Design Studio now has a home on our website.
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Commercial TypeA Beautiful Place Responding to the briefest of briefs, French calligrapher and type designer Julien Priez delivers an adventurous new display serif that sits squarely at the intersection of elegance and width.
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Commercial TypeDouble Acts in Pop now shipping Double Acts in Pop: An Incomplete Survey is the first specimen book in almost a decade to feature Commercial Type’s full library.
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Commercial TypeTerza Display After releasing Terza last year, Greg Gazdowicz noticed that some designers were using Terza Reader—crafted with continuous text and immersive reading in mind—at very large sizes.
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Commercial TypeChanges at the Strib The Minneapolis Star Tribune, affectionately known as the Strib, has been reborn as the Minnesota Star Tribune—with a new mission and some Commercial Type fonts.
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Commercial TypeTim Ripper at the San Francisco Public Library Tim gave a lecture titled The Past Inside the Future: Commercial Classics at Five on July 9 at the San Francisco Public Library, presented by Letterform Archive and Type West.
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Commercial TypeRolling Stone refreshed Commercial Type teamed up with Food and c-ll-ct-v-ly to redesign a magazine known for continually reinventing itself. It landed on newsstands in June.
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