On January 1st, 2022, franchise fans received a unique gift, the special episode Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. Seeing favorite characters again is bittersweet and nostalgic, and clips with the greatest moments from the movie are all over social media.

All throughout the movie, the spectators see TT Ricordi Fulmini, in which chapter titles and the final quote from the book are set. It is a modern antiqua with historical roots that matches the British historical aesthetics, and TypeType is happy to have become a part of it.

TT Ricordi is paired with Minion, used mostly in all-caps roman and italic. Minion is also the typeface used for the opening titles (not shown here). See all animated title sequences on the Vimeo page of Sibling Rivalry Studio.

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts streams on HBO MAX.

Die Zeiten gendern sich is the title of Philipp Ruschke’s thesis in Communication Design made at HAW Hamburg in 2021. It includes a theoretical essay about gender-neutral and gender-inclusive language in German (booklet) and a complete “translation” of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, from the original German translation into a new gender-neutral version (book).

The design features the color scheme of the transgender pride flag as well as the variable superfamily VARIANZ by Viktor Zumegen which slowly shifts its appearance throughout the chapters by using the two axis “Expression” and “Serifs” of the variable font. The change in the typeface isn’t recognisable until you compare the first with the last chapter – in reminiscence of the gender spectrum.

The book has 288 pages (140×215 mm), the booklet 92 pages (206×286 mm).

Published by Nucleo, Unnützes Wissen für Potter-Fans (“Useless knowledge for Potter fans”) ist set in JAF Herb and Arek.

From Wikipedia:

Fantastic Beasts is a film series directed by David Yates, based on the eponymous book by J. K. Rowling and a spin-off prequel to the Harry Potter novel and film series. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of three fantasy films as of 2022, beginning with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and culminating with Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). Following the 2001–11 Harry Potter film series, Fantastic Beasts marks the second film series in the Wizarding World shared universe media franchise.

Kowalski Quality Baked Goods is the bakery of Jacob Kowalski (played by Dan Fogler), located at 443 Rivington Street in New York. The logo of this fictional company uses the Burford typeface, on the shop signs, the delivery car, and other items.

A flyer for the fictional bakery (with a chocolate frog), advertising the 2022 sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The flare serif used for “Quality Baked Goods” is unidentified. The hashtag and handle appear to be set in Optima.

Film props as seen in an exhibit at Warner Bros Studio. Burford is here used with a white shadow to the bottom left. “Quality Baked Goods” appears to be lettering.

The new special issue of French cinema magazine La Septième Obsession is dedicated to Harry Potter universe, with a 132-pages focus on the topic.

A modified version of Cattedrale was created for the cover as a reference to the original Harry Potter logo. For the inside pages, another gothic font was chosen: Adlibitum. The cover features an original illustration by Juan Esteban Rodriguez.

Illustrated by Lisa Zordan

Illustrated by Adrien Denis-Pasquier

Apple goes non-San Francisco and even went for Optimo’s types. The newly introduced Spotlight feature in Apple’s News app uses both Display and Text styles from François Rappo’s Practice, alongside Mark Simonson’s Proxima Nova.