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The OmniLatin Tool
Staff Pick
Jan 21, 2025
The OmniLatin Tool is an open source RoboFont Extension that streamlines the design of a typeface with OmniLatin support.
The OmniLatin Research
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Jan 20, 2025
The OmniLatin character set aims to improve the representation of all the Latin-based languages.
Process: Rosalie
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Designed by My-Lan Thuong
Dec 4, 2024
Rosalie is a contemporary display serif by My-Lan Thuong, born from a medieval mural in Guérande, France.
Sharp Type in Eye Magazine 106
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Eye Magazine Summer 2024
Aug 12, 2024
Sharp Type Featured on the cover and in the pages of Eye Magazine #106.
Process: DOSS Collection
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Designed by Marc Rouault
Jul 10, 2024
DOSS is a collection of four display-oriented typefaces that also reference the aesthetics of ‘90s rave culture and ‘80s sci-fi tropes.
Sharp Type Season Two: Neutral Better
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The process of developing our new website.
Jun 3, 2024
Season Two, Sharp Type’s new website and e-commerce platform, is here! Read our interview with Systems Lead Justin Sloane for behind-the-scenes insight into our development and design process.
Sharp Earth Case Study
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May 14, 2024
Sharp Earth is a new multi-script sans serif typeface spearheaded by Lucas Sharp and drawn in collaboration with a team of local experts from around the globe.
Sharp Type’s Chantra Malee Wants to Pay it Forward
Apr 30, 2024
Down to the Letter: Sharp Type in Monocle Magazine
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Writer: Will Higginbotham Photography: Tara Rice
Apr 30, 2024
Sharp Type featured in Monocle Magazine's 2023 design issue No.168
Sharp Type Volume One Process
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Presenting Volume 1
Apr 1, 2024
Our first type specimen, 350 pages of pure Sharp Type from 2015-2023
Sharp Grotesk Global Case Study
Staff Pick
Oct 23, 2023
Making Sharp Grotesk Global
First Impressions of Earth: The Spring Melt
Staff Pick
May 31, 2023
Melting letterforms turn into a blissed-out six minutes of font ASMR ...and a special Beta release
Women in Type Insights interview with Its Nice That
Mar 20, 2023
Chantra discusses the state of type design with two other industry leaders for It's Nice That's Global Type feature.
Twilio
Oct 23, 2022
A custom typeface and logotype project
Williams College
Oct 4, 2022
Designing a bespoke typeface family for a leading academic institution.
Process: Octave
Staff Pick
Sep 25, 2022
Octave, Josh Finklea’s 2022 release with Sharp Type, is a reconsideration of the modern sans serif typeface.
Process: Ghost
Sep 25, 2022
A resurrection of the Humanist sans
Lover's Magazine interviews Sharp Type
Lover's Magazine
Aug 1, 2022
Sharp Type's co-founder discusses the business of type design
As versatile as the plain white T-shirt, Sharp Type’s new font is perfectly ordinary
Aug 1, 2022
Our newest humanist sans serif, Ghost, is featured in It's Nice That
Crocs X MCM
Jul 11, 2022
The latest Crocs collaboration showcases Sharp Type's recent logo refresh for MCM
Introducing Ceraph
Apr 27, 2022
Designer Emma Piercy's debut typeface, coming soon from Sharp Type
The Malee Scholarship: Interview with Chantra Malee Montoya-Pimolwatana
Feb 22, 2022
The Yule Ogg
Dec 16, 2021
Sharp Type is pleased to debut our inOGGural youtube video this holiday season.
Process: Greenstone
Sep 25, 2021
Process: Tarnac
Sep 18, 2021
Marc Rouault's Tarnac Slab and Sans
Design Feaster interview Chantra Malee about The Malee Scholarship
Aug 15, 2021
Branding Hillary 2016 and the Semiotics of Neoliberalism
May 10, 2021
The Rare Cursive Typeface That Actually Recreates the Feel of Handwritten Script
Staff Pick
Dec 15, 2020
19th century handwriting comes to life in My-Lan Thuong’s digital reimagining of copperplate calligraphy
The Dynamic Duo Behind Sharp Type
Oct 13, 2020
Process: Trois Mille
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Sep 18, 2020
Process: Carta Nueva
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Sep 11, 2020
Carta Nueva is the digital re-imagination by My-Lan Thuong of a pointed-nib calligraphy model from 1851 in Barcelona, Spain.
Polish Music Publishing House & Beatrice Display, Beatrice, Ogg
Aug 31, 2020
Three of our typefaces bring a new tempo to works by great Polish composers.
Dropbox
Oct 23, 2019
Logo Development & Sharp Grotesk Typeface for Dropbox Rebrand
Beatrice Superfamily Case Study
Oct 23, 2019
Making of the Beatrice Superfamily
Process: Doyle
Oct 19, 2019
Ogg Superfamily Case Study
Sep 12, 2019
The Malee Scholarship
Oct 23, 2018
Designing a scholarship for women of color in type design.
Process: Garnett
Sep 11, 2018
Samsung Sharp Sans
Oct 23, 2017
Samsung Sharp Sans Global by Sharp Type.
Process: Centra Superfamily
Aug 23, 2017
Josh Finklea's Centra No1, No2 and Mono as well as future expansions
Process: Respira Black
Aug 23, 2017
The making of Respira
Type on the campaign trail
Oct 30, 2016
Type Paris Q&A with Lucas Sharp
Jul 18, 2016
Process: Post Grotesk
Sep 12, 2014