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fontba.se7 Best New Fonts of August 2026 — FontBase BlogOur (subjective) picks for the best new fonts released across different type foundries during August 2026.

4 Sept

Best New Fonts of August 2026! fontba.se/blog/seven-... Featuring Novaform by Identity Letters Ragequit by Grim Type Co. Juncture by Lettermatic MF Parma Sans by Metis Foundry Animono by Storm Type Foundry Thaw by Superior Type Rempart by Douglas Hayes

3 Aug

Introducing: Global font rankings and stats! Now you can view global font usage, watch daily leaderboards, track best fonts of the month, observe total usage numbers and ranking changes. All that for free an directly on our website. fontba.se/tools/rankings

22 July

We now officially support missing font auto-activation in Figma! You can get our plugin here: bit.ly/3TPZucn

15 July

License management in FontBase. Simply add some fonts, add licenses, set the number of maximum seats. And bada bing bada boom you and your team will now stay compliant!

17 Apr

⚠️ Our database provider Supabase is currently having some technical issues. FontBase login might nor work for some users. We continue to monitor the situation and will update as soon as this is recolved.

19 Feb

For the latest FontBase update we were required to change our signing certificate for Windows. Unfortunately, this causes an error during the update. If you are getting this error, please download a new version of FontBase from our website manually.

3 Dec 2025

Introducing the FontMarket provider! We've partnered up with FontMarket to bring you 2164 high quality fonts inside your favorite font manager. Subscribe and use the fonts in a single click, just like Google fonts. Read more: fontba.se/blog/fontba...

27 Aug 2025

Discover is now available in the latest FontBase release! All new font releases from 60+ foundries across the globe, gathered on a single page, updated daily. Get to know about new fonts before everyone else. Free to join for any foundry. Check it out: bit.ly/4p0Cl2m

28 July 2025

Remember the IDEO font map? Well, it's gone and not available anymore for quite some time now. But guess who's doing a better (hopefully) version of it?

Font family page updates in FontBase! Here's what you may have missed: 1. Improved style selection. The select dropdown is now on top of the page. Double clicking a style now navigates to the Waterfall tab directly.

3. Added Details tab. On that, you can copy information from the font "name" table, such as author, license, website, and more.

fontba.seUpdate HistoryOur font organizer is regularly updated multiple times a month. See what changed in the latest updates.

Check out the full update list here: fontba.se/updates

2. Improved Glyphs tab. Glyphs are now grouped by Unicode categories. You can search glyphs by name or by Unicode group name. Also, tab performance with many glyphs is much faster now.

16 July 2025

We have a NEW logo!

16 June 2025

Currently we're working on an updated Glyphs page in FontBase. It will have glyph search, Unicode groups displayed, and work faster with lots of glyphs. What features would you like to see on the new Glyphs page?

A really short history of type. 🧵 Roman letters started as inscriptions carved in stone in 8th century BC. Romans adapted the Greek alphabet, creating the foundation for all Western scripts. These early letters had thick/thin strokes & serifs - still influencing type today.

Evolution continued: Transitional types (17th century) added more contrast, Baskerville's sharp forms were "shocking" in the 1700s, then came Baroque variations mixing roman & italic on same lines.

20th century: Sans-serif fonts emerged (no serifs, even thickness). Phototypesetting in the 1960s revolutionized production, leading to today's digital typography.

1440: Gutenberg's printing press changed everything. His Bible used Gothic typeface, but Roman letters inspired by classical inscriptions soon emerged. Nicolas Jenson created one of the first balanced Roman typefaces in Venice ~1470.

Renaissance brought vertical stems, circular bowls & crisp serifs. Aldus Manutius introduced italic type in 1495 to save space. Claude Garamond's famous typeface from the 1530s is still widely used today.

Medieval monks became scribes, evolving letters from rounded "uncial" shapes to sharp Carolingian minuscule under Charlemagne. Then came dense, angular Blackletter (Gothic script) - beautiful but hard to read.

Oi, a thread about italics! 🧵👇 True italics aren't just slanted text! They're completely redrawn typefaces with cursive structure, like handwriting. Compare a true italic 'a' vs roman 'a' - totally different shapes.

⚠️ Most "italics" today are fake! Helvetica "Italic" is just slanted Helvetica. Real examples: Adobe Garamond Pro, Mrs Eaves, Dante - each hand-drawn with cursive structure.

Some italics don't even slope! Structure matters more than angle. Quadraat has upright italics. It's about that flowing, cursive DNA from Renaissance scribes.

📐 Real italics slope 7-20° and have "transitive serifs" - strokes that show the pen flowing from letter to letter, like Renaissance calligraphy from 1500s Italy.

Francesco Griffo's 1499 italic had 70+ ligatures (letters tied together like 'ffi'). True italics are 5-10% narrower than their roman partners and sit compactly.