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FontShop: Top Type of 2009

This FontShop list includes best-sellers, most-blogged-about and groundbreaking typefaces in the FontShop stable in 2009:

• Sangbleu: The Fine Lined Fashionista---With gossamer strokes and a classical stature, SangBleu was born to be set at 150 pt. on the pages of a glossy magazine. Pic.
• Geogrotesque.
• Mousse Script: "best retro script", a revival and expansion of Stephenson Blake's Glenmoy. Pic.
• Effra: A sans for all seasons. Pic.
• Heroic Condensed, by TypeTrust. Pic.
• FF Dingbats 2.0. Pic.
• Axel: A Spiekermann family. Pic.
• Olicana: Nick Cooke's flowing handwriting face. Pic.
• Milo. Pic.
• T-Star, by Die Gestalten. Pic.
• Ingeborg: a fun didone family by Michael Hochleitner. Pic.
• Typonine Stencil: Most sophisticated stencil. Pic.
• Head Pro: For Gearhead and Techjunkies. Pic.
• Mr Eaves Sans and Mr Eaves Modern, by Emigre: Mr Eaves Modern is classy and high-legged. Pic.
• Mic 32 New: A contemporary sans by Chris Dickinson. Pic.
• Unit Slab: By Spiekermann and co. Pic.
• Dessau: 1930 meets 1980 meets 2010. Pic.
• Lexia: A slab for all seasons. Pic.
• Perec: Most literary. Pic.
• Metroscript: Best sports script---I guess they mean baseball, as played in the 1950s. Pic.
• Ludwig: Most unconventional revival. Pic.
• Pinup: Most cuddly curves. Pic.
• Kulturista: a slab family that rocks harder than Rockwell. Pic.
• Carmen: The Iberian didone. Pic.
• Alpine Script: The most delicious script (for signage or food packaging). Pic.
• Regime: A slab with a swing. Pic.

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Choice of fonts ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Fashion mag typefaces ⦿