Ryan Martinson is the master of texture, and Canvas, his new font, highlights this all the more. A variety of rough stylized fonts really look like they belong on a canvas, or a chalkboard, or the side of a building. If you’re looking for a big family of display fonts that don’t look like all the others, this is a fantastic choice.

There are two ways to get a font to look good at both big and small sizes. One way is to introduce small features in a font that only are noticeable at big sizes, like Brown in this newsletter. The other is to create two distinct versions, one for big sizes (display) and one for small (text). Sans Beam embraces this second method, to fantastic results.

If you look at this font and think “I don’t get it, it just looks like someone’s handwriting” then you understand the point. A handdrawn font with over 700 ligature pairs, some serious attention was put into making this font natural and believable. Ditch whatever handdrawn font you were using to simulate notes before, this is your new go-to.

The fantastic grotesque sans from Nick Shinn has been updated and overhauled a few years after it’s initial release, and boy is it a looker. Sporting refined proportions and added visual interest, it fits just as well in display as it does in small text sizes. It’s also on the more condensed end of the spectrum, so use it when you don’t want things to look condensed, but you still need to fit lots of text in a smaller area.

A soft variant of their popular “Akhand” font, Akhand soft is a display sans with slightly rounded edges. It works great for modern articles or designs. It’s also condensed, which allows it to be used in place of other condensed headlines that may be a bit harsher, as was the trend from the last couple years.

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