So, Design Cuts just came out with another font bundle.
Here’s a couple of rules to live your life by:
Love thy neighbor.
When Design Cuts releases a font bundle, you buy the goddamn font bundle.
Just to make some things clear from the get-go, I’m not chummy-chummy with Design Cuts and I won’t be posting an affiliate link at the end of this post.
Design Cuts font bundles are always amazing value. The discount they say you’re getting is not an outright fabrication like the “Was $3997, can be yours for the next 5 seconds for $47” nonsense you get from fake gurus eager to peddle their courses to unsuspecting victims.
Just as an example, let’s look at something like Latinotype’s Árida, which is included in the latest bundle. On Creative Market, with the 70% off introductory offer included, you can get it for $38. In case you haven’t realized, this is more than you pay for the entire bundle at Design Cuts.
Artegra’s Habanera, also included in the bundle? It’s $49 on Creative Market.
Before you get the impression that I have beef with Creative Market, let me assure you that I absolutely do not. In fact, it’s probably my favorite place online for design assets. I’m just using its prices for comparison’s sake, to stress how much value-for-money the Design Cuts bundle offers.
Is every Design Cuts bundle offer as good as this one? That’s arguable, but in general I’d say no. The reason I’m always excited to see that their latest bundle is exclusively font-based is that their more unfocused bundles tend to include such a wild variety of assets that (inevitably) some of them will leave me cold.
Picks of the bunch
So, what are the three standout typefaces from this bundle? Here are my favorites:
Zeit by Fenotype: Oh. My. Goodness. A sweet but powerful serif in a multitude of weights and matching italics and a selection of ligatures sexier than Susanna Hoffs in a catsuit. Awesome for display text, but spacy counters make it viable for body text too. Without a doubt, my #1 pick from this bundle.
Corporative.slab by Latinotype: Bold, assertive slabs and curvy details make this perfect for logotypes, signage and large, display type in general. A close second place.
Gentle by MadeType: a distant cousin of Cooper Black, this typeface exudes retro class. Perfect for display use on products such as records, personal care items packaging and clothing labels. Not as flexible as the other two, so my #3 from this bundle.
You can download Design Cuts’ latest bundle HERE.
