After a long hiatus (inexcusably skipping 2009 and ’10) we’re back with our annual review of the year in type. The idea is simple: I invite a group of writers, educators, type makers and type users to look back at 2011 and pick the release that excited them most. The reviews range from the academic (like Paul van der Laan on Zizou or Jens Kutilek on FB Alix ) to the theoretical (such as Jan Middendorp on Agile ) to the personal (like Carolina de Bartolo who reviewed Calibre and Periódico after firsthand experience with a redesign of WIRED magazine) to the playfully unexpected (Microsoft’s Si Daniels praises Apple Color Emoji ) to the exclamatory (Matthew Butterick on Neue Haas Grotesk )

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Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011