A large expansion

I designed Myhota in 1990; it was one of my earliest designs. The bold version was first, and then a thinner version followed. It is a condensed font with a very high x-height that makes it work better as a display font than a text font. I have long thought an expansion with additional weights was desirable and I finally got around to doing it. The end result was a much bigger family than I originally anticipated, with a total of nine weights plus italics plus backslanted styles for all weights. 

Because Myhota was not very useful for text, in the early 1990s I attempted to alter it by lowering its x-height and widening the letters to create something that would work as text. The result was MyhotaHatched. It also originally had two weights. In 2021 I added an intermediate weight and italics, giving the family 6 members.

Both are available from myfonts (here) and FontSpring (here and here).

The biggest yet

 Introducing JetJane, a family of 36 faces, the biggest family currently in the IngrimayneType collections.

JetJane is a geometric sans-serif family. The family has two widths and each width has nine weights. Each of these 18 fonts comes with an accompanying italics version, giving the family a total of 36 members.

JetJane, like other geometric sans faces, is plain, unadorned, and highly legible. It is derived from JetJaneMono, a monospaced sans-serif face. This development is unusual because one expects the monospaced variants to be  created after the proportional variant, if a monospaced variant is even produced. This development history results in some distinctive differences between JetJane and two other geometric sans faces from IngrimayneType, AndrewAndreas and Yassitf. Below AndewAndreas is on top, JetJane in the middle, and Yassitf on the bottom. All are printed at the same point size.

JetJane is available from myfonts.com and fontspring.com.

An eclectic sans serif

In the fall of 2019 I created a Yassitf, a family of 30 sans-serif faces. This year, 2020, I have created a second large sans-serif family, again with 30 faces. While Yassitf was an attempt at a generic face, one that had nothing that stood out to call attention to itself, this new face, Samsheriff, is noticeably different from other sans-serif faces. Putting a sample of it into the What-the-Font engine at myfonts.com reveals no other face that closely resembles it.

Below is a comparison between Yassitf and Samsheriff. While a quick glance may suggest they look similar, a closer comparison of letters shows that they are very different. To make this comparison, Yassitf was sized at 26 points and Samsheriff at 33.

Samsheriff's is the result of reworking the lettering used in Coffinated, a novelty font that had only upper-case letters. Alterations and many additions resulted in Zimric, a hand-drawn face. Zimric was close to being sans-serif, and making additional changes resulted in Samsheriff.

Samsheriff is legible and suitable for text or display. It joins a very crowded field; there is a huge number of well-designed sans serif typefaces already available and more are added each month.

Samsheriff is available at myfonts.com.

28 more

The Zimric family simulates neat hand printing. It is a large family, with 28 members. It has condensed, narrow, and regular widths and each width has four or five weights. Each width/weight has both an upright and an italic style.

A number of my type designs have come from playing with previous designs, either making them more extreme or trying to make them more legible. The lettering I designed for Coffinated invited development. It was sans serif and quite simple. A first spinoff is the monoline Zimric family, which I considered naming Decoffinated.

It is available on fontspring.com and myfonts.

A generic sans

Sans-serif typefaces dominate in places where large type is used such as titles and advertising. Recently on myfonts.com 46 of the 50 best-selling typefaces were sans serif. Serif type is still used extensively where lengthy text is needed such as in books, magazines, and newspapers, but it does not sell well.

When updating Galexica by adding five styles to the existing five styles, I noticed that my limited offering of sans-serif type had nothing comparable to the superfamilies of sans serif type that have proliferated in recent years. Although the world does not need yet another sans-serif typeface, I could not resist the challenge of creating my own super family.

The result is the 30 styles of Yassitf. It has three widths: condensed, narrow, and regular. The regular has six weights, the narrow five, and the condensed four. Each of those weights has both an upright and an italic version. It is now available on myfonts.com

Creating Yassitf gave me the opportunity to further explore opentype features that I had not previously used. I learned that some of them can add a lot of functionality to a typeface. Going forward, I may add some of these features to my existing faces.