Spooky season calls for blackletter, but Schmaltzy by Matthijs Herzberg works well beyond Halloween. It's about as relaxed as a blackletter gets, with no sharp edges, only smooth curves flowing into one another, and a distinct personality that can anchor a brand identity. 👉 License Schmaltzy at typenetwork.com

Nickel Gothic by DJR in use for Waterford Walls Daily Bulletin. Waterford Walls is an international street art festival that brings more than fifty artists from around the world to Waterford each August for ten days of painting, music, and events. 👉 License Nickel Gothic at typenetwork.com

Our second Meet the Network episode features Valentina Casali, a type designer, junior engineer, and project manager at CAST Foundry, a cooperative based in Bolzano, Italy. Watch the full video at buff.ly/JuDFpHr

Looking for fonts that make some noise? Comicraft’s typefaces are made to be heard, from a quick ZAP to a full KA-BOOM. Here are a few of our favorite sound effects, each set in a different Comicraft font. 💥 Get these Comicraft fonts at typenetwork.com

Violeta by Quintana-Font in use for the book Hotel Love by Petra Piuk Vienna-based Sellerie Studio designed the book, developing a series of lipstick lettering along with the layout and typesetting. The typesetting pairs MT Baskerville for the main text with Violeta for titles and highlights, and Input Mono Compressed for the ISBN and the book’s sections. 👉 License Violeta at typenetwork.com

Want an elegant serif with a modern edge? Clarinetta, designed by Jürgen Huber, pairs deliberately pronounced serifs with striking contrast, bringing fresh energy to time-honored typographic principles. 👉 License Clarinetta at typenetwork.com

Good menu type does what a good host does: It makes a stranger feel like they already belong at the table. Here are five faces for the menu, the packaging, and everything in between, from bistro serifs to chalkboard scripts. buff.ly/SSCC1Q5

Late Serif by Henning Skibbe is a silky, contemporary text typeface. The typeface family supports 210 languages through its Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. 👉 License Late Serif at typenetwork.com

Ringold Clarendon by Bijou Type in use in Nation’s Dumbest – Nation’s Dumbest follows celebrities competing in school-themed challenges, where the goal isn’t to win but to avoid coming in last. 👉 License Ringold Clarendon at typenetwork.com

Dyana Weissman is typically not a fan of sans serif typefaces, but on a trip to Norway, she was inspired by the labels on antique medicine bottles she saw on display in a museum. The robust personality of the letters convinced her to give sans serif a try. 👉 License Apotek at typenetwork.com

Sudz by Jamie Chang is a graffiti and bubble-letter inspired color font, built from winding, looping strokes that create a dynamic and hypnotic texture. Made for display use, it's best suited for brand identities, merch design, and packaging. 👉 License Sudz at typenetwork.com

Borax is an ode to the typography scene of New York City and Chicago in the late 1970s, when ad agencies and typesetters used cameras, geometry sets, and drafting boards to model an ideal life of consumption, printing it all into a sleek culture everyone thought would last forever. Borax revives that tension between restraint and personality, and the quirkiness that comes with it. 👉 License Borax at typenetwork.com

Looking for an interesting script typeface? 🖋️ Sedgwick, designed by Troy Leinster, is a mannered, upright, unconnected script, with a touch of ’tude. License Sedgwick at typenetwork.com

The season begins, and it’s time to send out the premiere invites. Here are six scripts, six different ways to make an entrance. Some are polished and formal, others are playful and a little unexpected, but all have plenty of personality. Together, they make a case for letting your type do a little of the talking. buff.ly/c276e2g

For posters that want to make some noise: BF Buffalo pits faceted outer contours against taut inner curves that turn into angular corners as the weight increases. 👉 License BF Buffalo at typenetwork.com

Fall issues are cast long before they hit the newsstand, and there is no better time to audition your typographic masthead. We're recommending five typefaces with real newsroom pedigree, each matched to the publication it was born to run. Read it here: buff.ly/bQxq4XX

Meet Naipe Foundry, a duo from Rio de Janeiro and now based in Barcelona, who have been helping brands find their typographic voice since 2018. Watch their Meet the Network episode, where they talk about how they navigate being both business and design partners, share a recent favorite project, and let us in on what they get up to when they’re not designing type. Catch it in our Instagram Reels: buff.ly/6D254nj

Apostil is a typeface rooted in handwriting, drawn to harmonize with hand-drawn sketches while still holding the cadence, texture, and rigor of a font. It comes in Light, Regular, and Bold, with stylistic alternates throughout. License Apostil at typenetwork.com

Forged in the fires of gaming legend, Dargon is an audacious serif family built to bring the epic to any text. The family comes in two parts: six uncial-inspired display fonts, each named for a school of magic (Ignis, Limen, Mutatio, Oculus, Aegis, and Umbra), and Dargon Text, five text and italic styles built for continuous reading on screen and page. License Dargon at typenetwork.com

About Spritz is an eclectic Sans and Serif variable type system that turns Art Nouveau’s ornamental richness into something thoroughly contemporary. Watch it shift from Sans to Serif and back, a single structure carrying two distinct voices. Get it at typenetwork.com