Custom fonts are a steadfastly popular way that brands connect with customers in a unique, memorable voice. “If a brand is a person,” Mucca studio founder Matteo Bologna has said, for example, “its custom font is like the sound of…
For multi-award winning Designer Taurai Valerie Mtake, investigating the potential of design in contemporary African visual culture has been an area of interest for some time. In an ongoing project surrounding the revival of Nguni Symbol Writing, she examines Indigenous…
It has always been part of PP‘s ethos to empower the beautiful design community. This Font Starter Pack is one more way they’re doing just that. “Every graphic designer, aspiring or seasoned, needs great tools,” says Pangram Pangram‘s founder, Mathieu…
Eko Setiawan delivers not one, not two, but four delightful new fonts to sink our teeth into. Here’s the roundup… Designing under the name Emyself Design, Eko is an Indonesia-based graphic designer who’s been creating fonts since 2018. Following a…
For Type-01, Production Type’s Jean-Baptiste Levée digs out the best gems of his foundry’s work library…Spoiler: it’s not your usual collection of grimoires. The hypercenter of Paris hosts Production Type, one of France’s most prolific type foundries. In this article,…
It’s only been a year and a half since Pangea was first released (more on that here), but thanks to the ongoing donation of a quarter of all designer royalties, over 75,000 trees have been planted, and at least 2,600…
Recently, we had the opportunity speak with Ran Zhen on the subject of climbing the ladder and becoming a senior designer in the (type) design industry as a woman. A multidisciplinary senior designer at Pentagram, New York, Ran has built…
Looking for fresh new fonts in 2022? Type Department has you covered. Check out this selection of new fonts, crafted by independent type designers and carefully curated by us… Ringift New from Graptail Studio, Ringift is a modern, curvaceous serif font…
We’re honoured to welcome the wonderful Production Type for a guest post today. They offer their expert eyes to reveal 12 top type designers you need on your radar in 2022… Some new blood, some seasoned crafters: here is a…
Just in from Porto-based type foundry Nova Type, Loretta is a beautiful new body text typeface drenched in contemporary elegance. Well versed in type design before creating Nova Type Foundry in 2018, Founder Joana Correia set out to experiment with…
Want to learn how to choose the best font for your web page, how to create killer font pairings, or how to maximise the power of type in your UX/UI design? You’re in the right place. Working out how to…
Designing new type systems that are visually harmonised across diverse language contexts is no small feat. The aesthetics of the Latin script, for example, may not easily be translated to Arabic or Hebrew environments. In this way, the concept of…
The result of a collaboration between The Foundry Types (the independent type foundry of David Quay and Stuart de Rozario), and Amsterdam-based design studio Thonik (founded by Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven), Fernhout is the new typeface created for the…
Despite the perception of abundance we often operate with under modern consumerism, it is well known that many of our resources are becoming less and less available. Resulting in a savage race for said resources – from construction materials, paper and…
We’re delighted to announce the addition of five juicy new weights to T1 Korium – the first ever font from our very own foundry, T1 Foundry! Designed in collaboration with Valerio Monopoli, also known as Morula Type, T1 Korium is a…
