I can’t tell you how much I love the myfonts.com Rising Stars newsletter. It’s one of the few I read straight through, and one that gives me a lot of great ideas for future work.

Today’s newsletter featured a fascinating new font called Horst, named after Horst Janssen, a German printmaker. If you search for some of his work, it’s reminiscent of that of Egon Schiele.

But just look at this font. It’s designed by Ricardo Marcin and Erica Jung of PintassilgoPrints, a Brazilian typefoundry. They have some other interesting fonts, but this is by far my favorite. It features unpredictable ligatures and alternates, and creates a crafty, hand-lettered look.

Horst, designed by Ricardo Marcin and Erica Jung

Here’s more from the description:

Besides the set of automatic discretionary ligatures, this all-caps font also comes with two extra stylistic sets, so there are 4 versions for each letter (plus the variations contained in the ligatures). When working with ligatures turned on, the carefully handcrafted kerning table takes advantage of overlapping some ligatures with its neighbor letters, multiplying ligatures performance.

I absolutely cannot wait to use this for a project.