Mona Franz

Convinced that typefaces are key to outstanding branding, Mona combines skill and vision to create visual identities in all colours of the emotional palette.

Photography © Maria Bayer

Mona Franz is a designer specialised in type design and corporate design. In 2021 she founded the munich design studio Just Your Type together with Sebastian Berbig. Mona is a teacher of type design at Hochschule München. In 2018, Mona graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague with a TypeMedia master’s degree. In her final project, she developed Bridge Head and Text, typefaces now published by TypeMates. Her professional experience includes working with corporate agencies like MetaDesign Berlin, Martin et Karczinski and Blackspace, and the fabulous foundry Bold Monday. Mona loves to connect people and build bridges between different design disciplines. That’s why she organises together with and for other TypeLovers TypeTalks, TypeWalks and TypeStammtische in Munich.

Bridge Text’s crisp character gives long reads a comfortable, sparkling texture
Bridge Head, an editorial rockstar to attract attention in large sizes with high contrast and expressive geometric counters
Gratimo Classic is a fresh geometric humanist refined for reading
Gratimo Grotesk is a fresh modernist geometric engineered for reading