Refreshing Text Typefaces

Making Of Franziska

After 10 years at FontFont, tried and tested Franziska is now home. This is the process and details behind the …
Making Of Altona and Alison

A New Awakening with Altona and Alison

From street sign to progressive Didone
Making Of Netto

Netto is Moving Forward

Netto is a classic. After 15 years at FontFont, the essential type and icons are now republished and extensively …
Making Of Yuni Slab, Elma and Ottessa

Useful, but Not Always Easily Useful for Everything

Non-linear sans serifs, a nostalgic retro flair and small irregularities are trends in contemporary typography. …
Making Of Grato Marker

A Typographic Collaboration With Teja Smrekar

Based on writing tools, Grato Marker is an authentic, casual companion to Grato Grotesk and Classic. Here’s how …
Making Of Rumiko

The Empathetic Sans and the Distinctive Workhorse

Rumiko brings warmth, clarity and legibility to brands and digital environments. The release of Natalie Rauch, …
Making Of Resonay

An Ambitious Plan: the Making of Resonay

Is it possible to create a serious font that would work as an illustration rather than text? Sometime in 2014, …
Making Of Gratimo and Grato

All About Variation

United by graphic simplicity, confident in typographic complexity, Grato and Gratimo are four type families …
Making Of Pensum Sans

Pensum Shot the Serif, but Didn’t Shoot Legibility

Just chopping off the serifs? If only it could have been that easy to make Pensum Sans! Type designers simply like …
Making Of WsC

WsC Fonts and Mental Entanglement

Worksheet Crafter (WsC) helps users design teaching and learning materials. This article is about connected fonts, …
Making Of Bridge Text and Head

Make it Different to Match

Here you can find out how Mona Franz’s Bridge Text and Head are connected by a similar ideas but go different …
Making Of Halvar Stencil

Cut, Select, Delete, Repeat!

Halvar Stencil is here and ready to max the gap! Here’s how Paul Eslage managed to handle all the variable gap …
Making Of Sinews Sans

Back in Black

According to some designers, typefaces are never finished, but only abandoned. But sometimes typefaces are found …
Making Of Halvar

Engineering Halvar — Type Design as a Trialogue

“Four masters, plus italics and we are done!” At least that’s what we said. Designing a plain but complex font …
Making Of Cera Pro

From Commercial Success to Cultural Responsibility

An ode to the Cera collection, a type family that has had a huge impact on Jakob’s commercial success and given …
Making Of Meret

An Economical Newspaper Typeface

See early sketches and the research methods Nils Thomsen used to make Meret a well-fitting and economical …
Making Of Harrison Serif

A Closer Look at Harrison Serif

Designed Jakob Runge and Lisa Fischbach, Harrison Serif is a modern Slab Serif, that ranges between capable and casual.
Making Of Pensum Display

Display: Different Size, Different Design!

Seeing our Pensum Display release, you might be curious to see what the differences are between Pensum Display and …
Making Of Cera Round

Round and Round We Go

Inspired by the geometric character of Cera Pro, we — Lisa Fischbach and Jakob Runge — were excited to see what it …
Making Of Comspot

From Corporate to Public

After being put to work as a custom font for the large hardware and software reseller Comspot, the eponymous …
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