Not all type foundries are born from a brand and business model. Some, like Alex Chavot’s Apex Type Foundry, arise from a simple desire to share well-crafted and proficient fonts. The Paris-based type and graphic designer kick-started his own foundry…
Have you ever dreamed of a typeface inspired by a pine tree? Or imagined a typographic system with the magic ability to gender-neutralize Romance languages such as French or German despite their timeworn masculine/feminine grammatical structures? Dream no more—your typeface…
Home of contemporary typefaces that build on top of historical models and cultural legacy – Hot Type, founded by Marko Hrastovec based in Croatia’s capital Zagreb, is a Foundry and Design Studio equipped with typefaces that explore novelty and history…
The Netherlands-based type design studio Typotheque published recently two new Latin Typefaces: Rapida and Rapidissima. Originally created by the Italian Type Designer, Michelangelo Nigra, the idea of separating Rapida from Rapidissima is to investigate how italic, a system of cursive…
All eyes are on the very cool newly released Type Foundry Hard Type – and its trials to be available soon. The project, founded by the Spanish type designer Laura Garcia Mut, aims to create an organic connection between her…
As an Italian design boutique operating for twenty-five years in the field of graphic design, branding, and visual communication – we’re delighted to introduce the typographic project Hypetype by Kidstudio. Through their process, they began to discover how much they…
You may have remembered our first font release, T1 Korium, in collaboration with type designer Valerio Monopoli (@morula_type) back in 2021. Well, now we’ve given it its very own digital space on the internet that it can call it’s home!…
Born with the purpose of partnering with type designers from backgrounds under-represented within the industry, ALT.tf (@alt__tf) is a brand new type foundry accompanied by an international array of contemporary creative power. Founded by our sister brand Femme Type, whose…
The six-year-old design studio unveiled the stunning new collection of Indic fonts via their beautifully designed new website. Focused on expanding the design possibilities of Indic writing systems such as Devanagari, Tamil, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Bangla, Universal Thirst’s new font…
We asked Jonathan Bruun (DK) all about their experience as a type design intern at AllCaps. Jonathan Bruun introduces us to AllCaps (@allcapstype), a design studio focused on publishing typefaces, through his perspective and experiences as an intern. Jonathan has…
TYEPONE Issue 01 interviewee Daniela Retana shares the latest goings-on at her font foundry, newglyph. Including new fonts, the ICRC, and The Ocean Cleanup, here’s what she’s been up to. Since we last spoke back in 2020, Daniela Retana has…
Setting out to create a tool for optimal reading comfort in commercial word processing, Alex Dujet started working on the initial ideas for ES Face, independent Swiss type foundry Extraset’s new typeface, back in 2016. Blossoming into a stunning serif, ES…
In the context of the global upheaval brought on by the pandemic, Zetafonts have been taking a sharp look at the movements of (typo)graphic trends over the last year. In search of ways to ensure that our visual culture remains…
Since publishing their award winning book, A is for Ox, designers Rob Stolte and Maarten Dullemeijer from Dutch design studio Autobahn (@autobahnstudio) have extended their work into a one of a kind, multidisciplinary design project, to dig deeper into the origins of…
Recognising the qualities the third dimension can bring, New Letters have been working on a 3D series to enhance and reshape the way their typefaces make an impression on their audience. In this innovative series, each of their typefaces is…
