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That’s two serifs and one multi-generational sans with fingerprints all over Switzerland. Healthy serif to sans balance here I come.

You may have noticed them in our Early Access area already. It’s where customers can request to use a typeface before its widespread release. Today, all three are officially available for everyone. I’ve written up their stories especially for the occasion.

Designed by our core family member Seb McLauchlan, Marist is a warm and robust re-examination of the Old Style genre first imagined by Nicolas Jenson in 1470.

Forget the Metaverse for a moment. Imagine instead a quiet library with stained glass windows and stacks of books, a place where time seems to slow down and the mind has space for careful traveling.

Read the whole story behind this mystery serif.

ABC Walter

A long-standing, joint scholarly effort by Dinamo and Omnigroup, Walter comprises of Walter Alte and Walter Neue, two related yet ideologically opposed families celebrating author and design educator Walter Käch.

Our point of departure has been Käch’s tool for teaching students how to draw letterforms: The triple styles of Walter Alte are a faithful study of his lessons, while Walter Neue is an extension, update, and digitally-minded interpretation.

Read the full-length family biography.

Gaisyr is a beautiful typeface with Dinamo house-style Butterfly Serifs. It takes its point de départ from sketches by the early 18th Century royal typographer for King Louis XIV, Jacques Jaugeon.

Close your eyes and imagine the King sitting in his garden, maybe a bit sunburned, surrounded by butterflies and low hanging citrus fruit, sipping on a (glass bottle) of Coke®. You have now entered the world of Gaisyr.

Read the full scroll.

ABC Gaisyr resides in the neighbourhood of “Romain Du Roi,” the typeface of King Louis XIV — or the King’s own 'lil custom font, one might say. The heavily rational design was drawn by Jaugeon, based on a grid and with geometric construction.

But the punch cutters who produced the font were still in the mindset of free-styling: They translated the sketches onto metal by eye, and with rudimentary measuring.

It’s the tension between strict geometry and a loopy, hand-held interpretation (think of the King after an evening inspecting his distillery) that lives on our own lines for Gaisyr.

That’s it! And don’t forget: You can customize these fonts with your favorite alternates before check out using our Font Customizer tool.

Let me know what you think.

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