As I have shared in the past, I am quite a typophile. That is, someone with a passion for typefaces, font design, and the art of typography in general.
One of my main sources for typefaces is Google Fonts at fonts.google.comwhere Google provides over 1,700 free fonts (as of the date of this writing). These can be used by you and your students in most all of Google's products to add style, personality, and creativity to your docs, slides, and more.
Every now and then I like to go to the Google Fonts website and sort the fonts by date. This allows me to explore the newest fonts that Google has added. I did this recently and wanted to share some of my favorite new fonts. See below for a list, examples, descriptions and links to 15 awesome fonts from Google.
Keep in mind, you can easily add any of these fonts to your Google tools by clicking the font menu, choosing "More fonts", and then typing in the font name. And of course these are only 15 of 1,700+ fonts, so be sure to explore more at Google Fonts.
Teachers
About: The Teachers font is an educational font family created for use by publishers, teachers, students, and parents of children in grades K through 6. It is a clean geometric sans serif font intended to represent the letterforms of the alphabet as American children are taught to draw them in grade school. The font family was thoughtfully brought to life by a team of educators, designers and editors in 2023 for use in magazines and books, but is also well suited for class worksheets, newsletters, websites and other instructional and educational purposes.
Playwrite US Traditional
About: This style follows the traditional American style of Zaner-Bloser and D'Nealian, featuring a slanted continuous cursive. Capital letters vary in appearance, with some like 'I', 'H', and 'G' being more decorative, and others such as 'A', 'N', and 'M' maintaining a cursive style. (Note: There are also corresponding "Playwrite" fonts for most countries besides the USA.)
Playwrite US Modern
About: This style is a straightforward, completely upright modern cursive. The uppercase letters adopt a simplified print style, with notable features including a serif on 'I' and an 'M' with a raised center. The lowercase letters are semi-connected and designed with loopless, medium-length ascenders and descenders.
Madimi One
About: Madimi is a rounded sans with a mixed geometric and organic design. The design covers all of Google Latin Core. Madimi takes inspiration from the gentle curved geometry of certain Southern Afrikan graphic symbols.
Grandiflora One
About: Grandiflora, or in its original language, Neungsohwa is a decorative Hangeul typeface inspired by the Art Nouveau style of the 20th century. It is presented exclusively in hairline weight to highlight the elegant curves and ornamental characteristics of Hangeul.
Anta
About: Anta, a modern font family, is intelligently designed for screen publications. Anta Typeface has several interesting, constructed glyph shapes that give the typeface a modern look. The typeface is particularly suitable for graphic design, but also for branding projects.
Poetsen One
About: Inspired by the hand painted signs in supermarkets, and the roman structures of the classical alphabets. Poetsen is a display font, but it's not just intended to be used on big 'straight to the eye' titles. Since it has a large x-height, it can be used on short paragraphs in relatively small bodies of text too.
Delicious Handrawn
About: Delicious Handrawn is a font inspired by Agung Rohmat's handwriting. He drew all the glyphs on his iPad using the Procreate app. It took a lot of testing to find the perfect design as he felt his handwriting was not neat.
Marhey
About: Marhey is a playful Display typeface, custom hand lettering with contrast strokes that makes a dynamic and expressive impression.
Ga Maamli
About: Inspired by the historic handwritten posters found in the vibrant coastal communities of Accra, Ga Maamli is a font that embodies the spirited essence of the Ga people. Originally used to announce social events like concerts, boxing matches, and parties, these original posters exuded a distinct flair and vivacity.
Danfo
About: Danfo, a variable-axis font, is the result of a collaboration between Afrotype and Abu, a lettering artist from Ojota Bus Stop. It is inspired by the cut-out shapes of vinyl sticker lettering on public transportation buses in Lagos, Nigeria.
Kablammo
About: Kablammo is an experimental variable font, taking inspiration from maximalist curly doodad designs from the ’90s, the Memphis Design movement, as well as cartoons and toys from those eras.
Sankofa Display
About: Sankofa Display is a captivating African typeface that draws inspiration from a rich tapestry of African art styles, with a particular focus on straight-line geometric designs. This typeface embodies the essence of Africa's diverse cultural heritage, blending elements from various artistic traditions.
Tiny5
About: tiny5 is a variable-width, 5-pixel font playing with the concept of least amount of information while producing both legible and aesthetically pleasing text. It is inspired by the graphing calculators and digital gadgets of the 1980s-90s, where the constraints of limited pixel space demanded efficient and minimalist design. It can be used for invoking a retro or nostalgic feel, for conveying the idea of minimalism, or for efficiently presenting information on small displays.
Workbench
About: Workbench and Sixtyfour fonts are inspired by the article Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC) by Norbert Landsteiner. They are a rework of some old pixel versions of the Commodore 64 and Amiga Workbench fonts the author created years ago.
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