New from MVB fonts

MVB Fantabular
Akemi Aoki, designer of the ubiquitous MVB Hotsy Totsy?, has created a monospaced, typewriter face with attitude. MVB Fantabular has serifs. MVB Fantabular Sans doesn't. Both come in Regular, Medium, and Bold weights with corresponding italics.

MVB Pedestria
MVB Pedestria is a somewhat condensed face, designed to be legible with just a hint of playfulness and informality. Because it feels like a playful take on everyday signage lettering, designer Akemi Aoki added a set of pictographic figures -- a playful take on bathroom and crosswalk symbols.

MVB Sirenne
A rare book, published in 1742, contains engraved plates of fishes and beautifully hand-lettered captions -- letterforms like those found in maps of the time. These were the inspiration for MVB Sirenne, a new text family by Alan Greene, designer of FF Atma (FontFont).

The challenge in designing MVB Sirenne was to capture the eccentricities of the hand-lettered forms, without them getting in the way of legibility. The solution was to make optical sizes: a small size for tiny text, where the forms could be wonkier, and a cleaner text size for basic use.

MVB Sirenne Six is full of quirks, and was designed for small print at about 6-point.

MVB Sirenne Text is a cleaner interpretation, designed for text 8.5-point and larger. It offers weights and a whole suite of features (small caps, oldstyle and tabular figures, swash italic, fractions, superior and inferior figures, f-ligatures, etc.).

MVB Peccadillo
MVB Fonts commissioned Holly Goldsmith to digitize a revival of an old, 96-point condensed face that was used widely in the later part of the 19th century. Alan Greene developed an optical size for about 8-point, and another for about 24-point. The three fonts, if compared at the same size, are remarkably different. Yet when used together at about their intended sizes, they harmonize beautifully.