The best new typefaces for September from leading foundries and designers

From playful sans serifs to versatile superfamilies, the latest font releases offer a great way to give your designs a fresh look and bring them to life this autumn.

As we enter autumn, it feels like time for a fresh start. And so, as a designer, it’s the perfect occasion to delve into the latest fonts on the market and consider updating your typographical toolkit.

To help you out, we’ve carefully curated a diverse selection of typefaces from leading foundries and designers, each of which brings its own unique character and functionality to the table.

From typefaces inspired by children’s handwriting to those rooted in mid-20th-century Italian design, these fab new releases demonstrate the ongoing evolution and innovation in type design and offer plenty of scope to reinvigorate your design work.

So, whether you’re working on branding projects, editorial layouts, or digital interfaces, let’s explore the standout typefaces of September and discover how they can inspire and enhance your creative projects.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t checked out previous selections of new typefaces for spring and hot new fonts for summer, you’ll find plenty of added inspiration there too.

Peasy by Delve Fonts

Peasy, designed by Peter Cho, is a friendly, modern sans-serif typeface that balances readability and personality.

With its open apertures, comfortable x-height, and low-contrast strokes, Peasy offers excellent legibility across various applications. That makes it well-suited for editorial design in print and digital formats.

Its pleasant reading experience makes it ideal for long-form content, while its subtle flair adds character to headlines and pull quotes. Peasy could also excel in user interface design, signage and branding projects where a balance of clarity and warmth is desired.

More broadly, the typeface’s broad language support, including Vietnamese and numerous African and Oceanic languages, makes it a versatile choice for global projects. Furthermore, OpenType features, such as small caps, old-style numerals and thoughtful stylistic alternates, provide a rich toolkit for creating nuanced typographic compositions.

Heltar by The Northern Block

Created by Jonathan Hill of The Northern Block, Heltar is a neo-grotesque typeface that pays homage to Helvetica while carving out its own distinct identity.

This typeface reimagines classic design principles for the digital age, featuring carefully crafted letterforms with optical precision and subtle corrections. Heltar’s design incorporates innovative approaches to white space and stroke contrast, resulting in a typeface that feels both familiar and refreshingly contemporary.

With its range of weights and styles, Heltar is exceptionally versatile. Its thinner grades make it perfect for sleek, modern tech branding and user interfaces. As you move up to the bolder weights, Heltar takes on a more dramatic presence, suitable for impactful headlines and display text.

This typeface would be an excellent choice for forward-thinking brands, particularly in the technology, fashion or design sectors. It’s also well-suited for editorial design, corporate communications, and anywhere a balance of authority and innovation is required.

Astra by Positype

Astra, the latest release from Neil Summerour’s Positype, arrives as part of a significant expansion of the foundry’s offerings. This new typeface exemplifies Positype’s commitment to creating versatile and expressive typefaces that cater to a wide range of design needs.

Astra is a sophisticated geometric sans serif typeface, offering nine weights ranging from delicate thin to robust bold. Its design beautifully merges geometric precision with subtle humanist details, creating a clean yet inviting appearance. It also supports an incredible 286 languages.

This balance ensures Astra is versatile, making it a particularly good choice for branding projects. Overall, the typeface exudes modernity and elegance and is a great option for designers seeking a fresh and aesthetically pleasing font to elevate their work.

Sixten by NM Type

Sixten, designed by Noel Pretorius and María Ramos of NM Type, is a playful and innovative typeface inspired by the intuitive letter shapes drawn by a four-year-old child. It sounds a bit mad, but the results are superb: a font that balances childlike creativity with professional design sensibilities.

As you might expect, this typeface is perfect for projects that require a touch of whimsy without sacrificing readability. More specifically, its mix of conventional and rebellious letterforms makes it ideal for children’s books, educational materials, and playful branding projects. It could also be an excellent choice for ad campaigns targeting younger people or, indeed, any design aiming to capture a sense of creativity and spontaneity.

Sixten is available as a variable font, offering a range of widths and featuring both conventional and expressive alternates. This enables you to fine-tune its personality, making it adaptable for both headlines and body text in the right context.

Argile Fusion by Art Grootfontein

Created by Stéphane Mattern of Art Grootfontein, Argile Fusion is an innovative font duo that combines a sleek geometric sans serif (Argile Grotesk) with a cartoony, hand-drawn lettering style (Argile Syrup).

This hybrid font allows you to seamlessly mix and match characters from both styles using OpenType alternates, offering a unique tool for creating dynamic typographic compositions. And the versatility of Argile Fusion makes it an excellent choice for a wide range of design projects. For example, its geo-sans component would be well-suited for clean, modern layouts in editorial design, while the expressive lettering style can add a personal touch to branding and packaging.

Moreover, the ability to blend these styles opens up creative possibilities for logo design, book covers and advertising campaigns. As such, Argile Fusion would be particularly effective in projects that require a balance of professionalism and creativity, such as lifestyle magazines, artisanal product packaging or cultural event promotions.

Rifugio by Apex Type Foundry

Rifugio, designed by Alex Chavot of Apex Type Foundry, draws inspiration from the quirky 407 Bastone series by Nebiolo and the vibrant Italian typography of the 1950s and 1960s. This sans-serif typeface features high-waisted capitals and whimsical letterforms, giving it a warm, charming personality while maintaining functionality.

With its blend of Italian flair and modern flexibility, Rifugio is well-suited for projects that require a touch of personality without sacrificing legibility. It would excel in editorial design, particularly for lifestyle and travel magazines where its character can shine in headlines and pull quotes.

Rifugio’s charm also makes it a great choice for branding projects in the hospitality, food and beverage, or fashion industries. Its extensive weight range and OpenType features ensure it can handle both display and text settings, making it a versatile choice for comprehensive brand identities.

Available in weights ranging from Thin to Black and as a variable font, Rifugio offers extensive OpenType features and alternates for rich typographic expression.

Pangea Condensed by Christoph Koeberlin

Designed by Christoph Koeberlin, Pangea Condensed is a new addition to the already extensive Pangea superfamily. This expansion introduces three narrower widths – SemiCondensed, Condensed, and XCondensed – increasing the family’s versatility.

The new condensed versions of Pangea make it an even more powerful tool for designers working across various media. They’re particularly useful for editorial design, allowing for more efficient use of space in newspaper and magazine layouts. They’re also excellent for signage and wayfinding systems, where space is often at a premium.

Pangea is notable for its broad language support, including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese, with additional scripts like Arabic and Hebrew available. This makes Pangea Condensed an ideal choice for global brands and multilingual publications.

More broadly, its clean, modern aesthetic combined with space-saving condensed options makes it suitable for both digital interfaces and print applications, from mobile apps to corporate reports.