The font industry in short, dated entries: new releases, rebrands, foundry moves and licensing changes. Updated daily; every entry names its source. For the long reads, see the articles.
October 28, 2026
Smith & Diction built the identity for the 2027 Philadelphia Flower Show, themed Iconic for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's 200th anniversary, around monumental floral photography and Herbus by Ornamental Type. The studio chose the typeface for its bold elegance and late 20th century references, and kept the rest of the system deliberately simple. The show runs in March 2027.
October 27, 2026
Global law firm White & Case unveiled its first rebrand in 13 years, created by Uncommon Creative Studio. A logo drawn from Trajan's Column inscriptions, with diagonal cuts through the letters, carries through to custom headline serifs meant to suggest momentum, set in an electric Catalyst Blue palette. The identity is rolling out across recruitment, client materials, advertising and a brand film.
October 26, 2026
Visa refreshed its visual identity with a standalone V symbol replacing the flag like symbol introduced in 2021, plus a custom typeface called Visa Sans. The name and wordmark stay unchanged. Visa says the simpler mark and typography are meant to stay recognisable on small screens and across digital and AI driven commerce.
October 26, 2026
Blaze Type worked with GraphicHunters to turn the Eredivisie league emblem into a full custom typeface for broadcast, stadium screens and matchday graphics. The design carries the mark's rounded forms and diagonal cuts across capitals, numerals and diacritics, with spacing built for scoreboards and LED ribbons.
October 26, 2026
Letters from Sweden has released Exemplar, a multi-script family begun by Goran Soderstrom in 1994 and completed in 2026. The family covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Arabic in five weights with matching italics, and the foundry marked the release with street signs carved in Carrara marble in Pietrasanta, Italy.
October 25, 2026
Akuru Type Marketplace, founded in 2024 as the first dedicated marketplace for Dhivehi typefaces in the Maldives, won first place in Other Innovations in Tech and third place overall in ICT at Maldives Expo 2026. The platform connects independent designers and foundries with users who need to license Dhivehi fonts.
October 23, 2026
Base Design built the identity for Brussels' Kanal Centre Pompidou around a variable typeface developed with Charlotte Rohde. Its axis runs from Underflow to Expressive to Overflow, so posters can flow or overflow while the blunt KANAL wordmark and a fixed footer hold the system together. The museum opens on November 28, 2026.
October 23, 2026
TYPE01 spoke with Koto's founder about CCType, the branding studio's new retail foundry. The conversation covers custom type as a brand's digital handwriting, licensing fatigue at large companies, and CCType's answer: one licence priced by company size, covering web, app and out of home use. Its debut family is the variable typeface CCTimeline.
October 23, 2026
Microsoft is shipping Michelangelus, the typeface Studiogusto designed for the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the office that maintains St. Peter's Basilica. The family is free to install; font.io's page on it has the full story of the commission.
via Microsoft
October 22, 2026
Fontfabric has redrawn Gabriel Sans, first released by Svet Simov in 2011, glyph by glyph for a 2026 update. The new family adds Cyrillic, an expanded Latin set and more OpenType features, and now runs to 24 static styles and two variable fonts covering more than 130 languages.
October 22, 2026
TypeType has redrawn the ExtraBold, Black and ExtraBlack weights of its flagship geometric sans across every width, with new hinting and kerning. The family runs to 104 styles, adds a set of interface icons matched to the letterforms, and covers nine Arabic script languages in a Naskh style.
October 21, 2026
Prezly has added custom fonts to its newsroom sites. Customers can pick from a wider preset selection, connect Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts, link a CSS stylesheet, or upload their own font files, with separate choices for headings and body text.
October 21, 2026
Apple Music's new identity sets its name in a custom drawn version of the SF Pro lineage rather than an off-the-shelf face, continuing Apple's practice of treating its service brands as type design projects.
via Adweek
October 20, 2026
Berlin foundry Softdrive has released Lingo, its first retail typeface, designed by Mark Julien Hahn. The transitional serif carries a full International Phonetic Alphabet character set offered as stylistic sets, including italic phonetic characters, in six weights with true italics.
October 20, 2026
The October pick is a blackletter revival with a contemporary cut, a reminder that the Fraktur tradition keeps finding new designers. ILT's feature traces the sources the revival was drawn from.
via I Love Typography
October 17, 2026
Ciel is a new text family from the Paris foundry Production Type, drawn with the low contrast and open forms the studio has made its signature for institutional publishing.
via Production Type