Jan Fromm, designer of Fontwerk’s latest type system, Nice, on designing vast, varied type systems and complex superfamilies. ZLM: Hi, Jan. What was your personal motivation for creating Nice? JF: I wanted to make a text family that was infused…
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…
Dedicated to the remembrance of his late grandmother, Taiwan-based freelance Graphic Designer Shun-Zhi Yang (楊順志) has created a project entitled The Buddhist Sutra Reconstruction, which merges traditionally inspired scriptures with performance-based elements to reimagine ancient Chinese typographic practices and spiritual elements…
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…
Operating through a set of axes that allow users to fluidly and dynamically slide between weights, variable fonts have been around for longer than you might expect. Developed in their earliest form between Apple and Adobe in the 1990s, variable…
Since its beginnings in 2016, Type.Today has been hosting a small collection of contemporary typefaces with high-quality Cyrillic letters which “reflect the visual language of the present and the near future.” Publishing fonts created by designers and studios globally, although…
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa)’s new visual identity emerged, broadly, as a response to modern art’s demand to be viewed from multiple perspectives. Through concepts developed by Michael Aberman, the graphic designer behind the identity, Camelot Typefaces were…
With chiseled finishes inherited from calligraphy, Morillas Sans is a new, contemporary yet timeless typeface that seeks to unite tradition and innovation in the same typographic skeleton. With extended proportions and open counterforms, the typeface reflects in its shapes the…
Yai Salinas‘ (@yaisalinas) latest font, Cleo, is a mixture of Vaporwave aesthetics and modern and retro letterforms. A microgenre of electronic music, Vaporwave emerged as an internet-born aesthetic subculture in the early 2010s, and has since built itself a tongue-in-cheek,…
We’ve seen some staggering work from independent type designers over the last year, so we thought it about time for a refresh on our last roundup. So here it is: our top 30 independent type designers you need on your…
Freshly dropped by Grilli Type earlier today, GT Maru is a bold, explorative, expansive new typeface release that strikes the perfect chord between joyfulness and functionality. The new typeface arrives with five weights in both proportional and monospaced subfamilies—all accompanied…
Tasked with designing an identity and custom font for an exhibition exploring sustainable fashion, Natalia Radnaeva has recently created an innovative custom font inspired by 3D printing, which will soon be available for purchase online. The young graphic designer is…
For Christoph Koeberlin, creating Pangea grew as a project in response one pivotal question: how can a typeface improve the world? He wanted to prove, to designers and the public alike, that those in the (type) design industry have the…
Like music, Rio de Janeiro-based (although currently remote) type design studio Plau believe that type has the power to spark conversations, bring people together and move ideas forward. This conviction sits fittingly with their recent work for Brazilian TV channel,…
While Daan Rietbergen believes leaning into variable fonts for their dynamism and flexibility is going to be of great importance in the type world to come, he’s hasty to add that what seems more important—despite a fast-paced design culture that…
