New Hero Images for September 2014

A favorite aspect of having a brand new blog design is that we can now further showcase some of the great content we regularly offer on Fonts.com.

If you're a regular visitor to Fonts.com you know that we prominently feature four large hero images on our homepage each month. These images provide the opportunity for us to work with leading designers and illustrators to show the typefaces we offer in a larger-than-life scale. So going forward, each month we'll take a moment to profile the new hero images and the talented people behind them.

A new release from Stone Type Foundry, the Magma II collection is a striking update of Sumner Stone's classic design. We asked Adam Trageser—who runs the Philadelphia-based check out.)

Featuring Renaissance thinker Michel de Montaigne, Adam's new image showcases the versatility of the Magma II collection as an outstanding display and text face. What's especially wonderful is that Adam highlighted the family's flexibility while employing plenty of visual wit. The blue moustache? Glorious.

Check out the Magma II collection.

Austin-based designer first hero designers when we overhauled our site a few years ago.

We're glad to have her back, and she's delivered a excellent piece to showcase Jim Parkinson's Sutro Deluxe design. This new release is strongly built, and the family features inline and shadowed variations—which give designers great opportunities to create dimensional type settings. Bethany's image is wrought from Sutro Deluxe's industrial aesthetic, possessing a gorgeous blueprint-esque feel.

Head on over to the Sutro Deluxe family page to see it in action.

It's always nice to feature a hero image that's created by the featured typeface's designer. Mattox Shuler is an emerging force in the type design community, and his Fort Foundry (formerly known as Hold Fast Foundry) has produced a string of hits, including the Gin, Abolition, and Prohibition families.

Mattox's image features his Industry family—the typeface collection's namesake is quite appropriate indeed: the family's sturdy, no-nonsense letterforms mean business.

See more examples of Industry in use on its family page.

Rounding out September's hero images is a design from Charleston, South Carolina-based Monotype News Gothic family. This workhorse collection is ready for the challenge of both headline and caption use alike. Stitch's design highlights those scale differences quite well—from the angled headline to the tiny tabled text—the family remains legible. The near-monotone image also helps to convey the understated—yet quite structural—profile of this Morris Fuller Benton classic. Take a look at the family now.

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We'll see you next month with October's new heroes. Interested in designing a hero image for us? Send us a link to your site or portfolio and we'll talk!