Tonal is the blog of Goodhertz, makers of audio plugins such as “Megaverb” that was introduced with a video previously shown on Fonts In Use. Another Goodhertz product is the “Vulf Compressor”, named after the band Vulfpeck - which in turn was the namesake of OH no Type Co’s Vulf Mono.

OH no’s James Edmondson also designed the typeface used for for links and emphasis on the Tonal blog. Hobeaux was started during his TypeMedia year at the KABK in The Hague. The headlines and body text of the blog are set in a design by another TypeMedia graduate from a few years later: Messer (incl. Messer Condensed), a reinterpretation of Weiß-Antiqua by Inga Plönnigs. To complete the circle: Messer was among the first typefaces available at Future Fonts, the font-in-progress platform created by Scribble Type with assistance of, you guessed it: James Edmondson.

While the blog itself uses Hobeaux and Messer for all typography, some videos and interactive plugins are inserted, using more type. Here, a tutorial pairs Messer with Export Stencil, Vulf Mono and Metallophile Sp8, among many other fonts.

Messer Condensed is used for headings, with Messer Regular and Italic for text. Author names, date, and drop cap brought to you by Hobeaux Bold and Black.

Interactive example of a plugin that mimics hearing loss, with typography set in Covik Sans Mono, a typeface that evolved from Edmondson’s graduation project at the KABK.

Some of the blog posts (and plugin interfaces) have been translated to Portuguese.

The boathouse in St. Louis’s Forest Park, built in 1894, has been reestablished as a lakeside restaurant. For the identity system, local design agency Brevity combined the strong flavors of Eubie Script and Export (regular and stencil families) with workhorse Proxima Nova.