Kaitlyn Morison

First designed in the early 1800s, Walbaum never achieved the audience or acclaim it deserved despite its easy elegance, and sophisticated persona.

Its been fully restored for this expansive family, which includes 32 weights including ornaments and two decorative cuts.

More Walbaum offers the kind of warmth thats missing from comparable typefaces such as Bodoni or Didot, feeling effortlessly approachable and legible.

Monotype team Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix and Juan Villanueva have adhered to designer Justus Erich Walbaums original intentions, also incorporating work by the designers son into some of its more extreme display weights pushing the possibilities of Walbaum without compromising on its spirit.

Text weights work well for the demands of digital environments, while decorative and display weights offer more dramatic, sculptural forms.

Unusually, the family also includes a generous range of ornaments. From massive billboards, to micro-type on e-readers, Walbaum has it covered. The family is available as OpenType OTF font format, and includes over 600 glyphs with OpenType typographic features including small capitals, old style and lining figures, proportional and tabular figures, fractions and ligatures.

A user guide is available in PDF format from the gallery view. It gives an overview of the optical sizing available and provides a keyboard guide for the ornaments.

VAG Rounded Next brings a classic 1970s typeface up to date, keeping all of its easy going, approachable personality but adding some much-needed versatility and language support.

Originally commissioned by Volkswagen, VAG Rounded remained in use by the company until the early 90s and has also been used by Apple, Skype and Myspace.

Its enduring appeal lies in its appealingly rounded terminals, and its immediate, informal tone of voice.

More When you look at the Volkswagen Beetle it has these curves that are timeless and legendary, says Steve Matteson, who led the creation of VAG Rounded Next.

I think thats what stands out in this design that friendly aesthetic, and the simple line and circle.

This new version offers 700 glyphs with pan European language support (including Greek and Cyrllic), as well as 10 weights of upright and italic styles.

New display weights Shine and Rough which create chocolate popsicle and rust effects are begging to be used in branding, packaging and editorial projects, while the lighter weights are well suited for text.