How we pick

About

The directory is curated by Dargan Crowley-Long.

Release Type is a directory of new typeface releases. A crawler keeps it current. The Release Type newsletter is sent weekly on Thursdays. It is not a shop, and it does not host font files.

What gets a page

A foundry or platform that designs or distributes original type. The first list is sixty-five studios.
A release is a new family, a substantial update, or a deliberate reissue, named in the foundry’s own announcement.
Essays, jobs, sales, and event posts are not releases. If a title only might be a typeface, it waits in a review queue and is not published.
The short note on each release is written here from the facts: name, foundry, date, and whatever the announcement actually states about style, axes, trials, or licence. Marketing copy is not reprinted.

How it stays current

A crawler reads public feeds every day and, for studios without a feed, checks the site for new links. It names itself, obeys robots.txt, and waits between requests. Low-confidence finds are not turned into pages.

Each week’s releases are published at /digest/latest.json and /digest/rss.xml, with an archive for every week. The Release Type newsletter is sent weekly on Thursdays.

Images

A release page may show up to three pictures the foundry itself published on that release, its announcement, or its press kit. They are copied into this site, resized, and never hotlinked. Each one is credited “Image: foundry name” and links back to the page it came from. When that page has no specimen, a picture the foundry published on its Future Fonts page can be used. That credit reads “Image: foundry name via Future Fonts” and links back to the Future Fonts page. Release Type does not take retailer photos, social posts, or specimen files the foundry did not publish.

Images are removed on request. Set removed to true on that image in the release file and it stays in the data and disappears from the site. Where there is no image, the family name is set in the site’s own sans, with a link to the specimen at the foundry, so the site type is not mistaken for the release.

Newsletter issues also show type in use: work by studios and designers, chosen for review. Each picture is credited to its owner where known and links to where it was found. If an image is yours and you would like it removed, email hello@releasetype.com and it will come down.

Corrections

To correct or remove a listing, use the contact link below. hello@releasetype.com