Category Typeface Design

Top 20 Independent Type Designers

From futuristic, experimental font families to gorgeously rendered and timeless designs, these creatives are bringing us the most exciting type design out there. So, here’s our recent top 20… Laura Csocsán – @cs__laura Budapest-based creator of fonts such as Ambiant…

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Type Designer | Stefanie Vogl

Type designer Stefanie Vogl has been passionate about creating from a very young age. After attending art school she went on to study Communication Design at FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt. Here, she began her practice by focusing on illustration, later switching to…

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Nova Type Foundry

Nova Type Foundry

New to Type Department are a selection of typefaces by Porto based, independent digital type foundry, Nova. Founded by Joana Correia, collaboration is key to their values as a foundry, and they aim to bring new and original designs by…

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Blaze Type’s New Type Release: Massilia

New from Blaze Type is Massilia; a tribute to Marseille. The Lyon-based type foundry’s latest typeface family is inspired by Roger Excoffon’s famous Antique and the boldness of Marseille city’s borough and inhabitants. Balancing between brush-like features and geometric ends…

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Due Collective: Grotta

Co-founded by Alessio Pompadura and Massimiliano Vitti, Due Collective is a graphic design collective working since late 2016 from Perugia, Italy. The duo design communication systems for commercial, cultural and artistic fields and focus on print, visual identity, editorial design…

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NEXT Typeface for ESPN

Barcelonian Design Studio TwoPoints have once again executed an exceptional commission for ESPN Magazine, an American sports channel’s monthly publication. The project consisted of designing a font with two different widths for their NEXT section. Since 1998, ESPN Magazine has…

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The Super Twins | BurnType

Based in New York, BurnType Foundry design high impact typefaces that successfully balance functionality with expression. The studio’s ethos or motto is that “type should be loud and language should be coarse”. After all, life is too short for more…

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Samsonite Sans | Grilli Type

Grilli Type is an independent Swiss type foundry founded by Noël Leu and Thierry Blancpain in late 2009. The pair and their team offer original retail and custom typefaces and often collaborate with designers, artists and developers including Josh Schaub,…

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