Best New Typefaces — August 2026

Dominik Levitsky launched Fontalog on 24 August 2026. It’s a free, fast font database that already indexes more than 3.5 million fonts and lets you search by measurable visual traits—weight, contrast, proportion and x-height—rather than only by name or category. For designers chasing the right texture or a precise optical match, that search-by-shape approach is a real time-saver.

Why this month matters

August brought a compact but useful set of releases: new transitional serifs built for reading, chunky slabs for headlines, playful display faces and a practical micro text family for tough rendering conditions. If you work on magazines, packaging or brand identities, there’s something here to lift tone and legibility.

Notable releases

• Lingo by Mark Julien Hahn / Softdrive — a 12-style transitional serif aimed at long-form body copy, with low stroke contrast, small ornamental drops on characters like g and a, plus ten stylistic sets for expressive display work.
• Sektor by Chill Type — a monumental slab serif with tight counters and compact spacing, built for bold headlines and high-impact layouts.
• F37 Slabhead by F37 — a geometric slab with broad proportions and teardrop terminals; as F37 puts it, “Slabhead can go from quietly dependable to completely thick-headed.”
• Resan by The Designers Foundry — a warm, precise super family inspired by 17th–18th century transitional types with options to alter terminal shapes for different moods.
• Tuffo by Type Everything — a lively display family drawing on expressive lettering traditions, offered in six weights plus a variable axis; great for packaging and food brands.
• Puerile Display by Applied Systems — a decorative take on Civilité-style letterforms, modernized with OpenType alternates for playful, readable ornamentation.
• Se Micro by Gallery Type — the small-size companion to Se Macro, optimised for tiny text or low-resolution print but with a quirky character when scaled up.
• Suspiria by Felipe Sanzana & Latinotype — a grotesque-rooted sans with rounded stroke tips and high visual weight, designed to register in headlines and identities.

Other practical moves this month include a new platform refresh from Suitcase Type Foundry and a catalogue launch from Arthur Schwarz’s Bolid System, which offers trial access to several display families including Milkshake Display. Between Fontalog’s search tools and these families, August 2026 gives type-hungry designers fresh, usable options for everything from longreads to loud logos.