Based in Berlin and founded by Ivo Gabrowitsch, Fontwerk are committed to delivering modern typefaces alongside innovative font engineering and type design services. Their dedication to providing stunning, good quality fonts is coupled with a desire to make their acquisition…
KNF Damryl, newly released on Type Department, is the brainchild of Azerbaijan-based Graphic & Digital Designer, Kenan Nasibov. This monospaced display font has a bold, robust character and sits comfortably as a modern geometric sans serif. Created with inspiration from…
Awista Montagne describes his understanding of typography as ‘a pattern and a unit of letters which creates a dynamic… this dynamic giving meaning to a concept’. This description seems to hit the nail on the head when looking at Awista’s…
Daniel Wenzel (@wnzldnl) works in the field of graphic and type design, specialising in utilising animation-tools and code. His multidisciplinary career has drawn him into exploring AI and questioning the unsettled, rapidly changing trajectories of the industry… How is tech…
Right now there’s tonnes of newly released, gorgeous fonts landing over at our sister marketplace, Type Department. From experimental displays to classical, confident serifs, Type Department have all sorts of exciting stuff to check out. So, we decided to give…
Recently, we chatted with Anton Moglia, author of the Velvetyne Fellowship License and member of Velvetyne, to speak about the foundry’s Non Font Objects (NFOs). We think these projects — separate from but related to type design — will introduce…
2020 has been a total whirlwind of upheaval and uncertainty, but if one thing is for sure, it’s that the incredible design community have continued to make it visually and conceptually breathtaking. From the influx in experimental serifs to the…
Newley released on Type Department, Kotei Condensed is the new sans typeface and display font from KOBU Type Foundry. Created by Portuguese Graphic Designer, Brígida Guerreiro, KOBU are a foundry mainly focussing on developing custom fonts with a rigorous, detail-oriented…
Created by Amsterdam-based multidisciplinary designer, Maarten van Maanen, LITIGE is a powerful, high impact sans serif typeface with unique, ecstatic energy and bag-fulls of character. Developed from the initial sketches for a logo for Dutch band, Kraak & Smaak, LITIGE…
After studying Design at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm, Graphic Designer, Combrisi tells us he felt doors opening everywhere… So it seemed, the ability to access the kind of work he’d been dreaming of felt possible. However, soon craving…
Inspired by the Astrantia flower, Astrance Regular is a stunning new typeface with features including a total glyph set of 191, 56 uppercase, 54 lowercase, 24 numbers, 6 diacritics, 22 punctuation marks and 6 ligatures. The serif typeface is the…
Salomée Souag (@chromae.s) — or Chroma, as her artist name goes — uses her practice to share crucial messages on social, environmental and racial justice. Pertinent, poignant and vital, Salomée’s large-scale wheat pasted murals have been lining Portland’s streets with…
German multidisciplinary designer, Marinus Klinksik, is the creator of the newly released all Caps font, Soapopera. Daring and experimental, Soapopera is ‘expressive’ and takes on an unusual form ‘based on contextual substitutions‘. The defining quality of the font is its…
Originally from Spain, Carmen Nácher (@carmen.nacher) made the move from Valencia to Germany after completing her studies in Graphic Design. Firstly living in Cologne for three years, Carmen used her time to gather graphic design work experience within branding and…
Can you introduce The Counter Press and tell us a bit about how it’s grown to where you are today + some background on your aims, ethos and aesthetics as an organisation? The Counter Press (@thecounterpress) started as a bit…
