The Temporary State was founded by Roman Gornitsky in Moscow on April 28, 2017. Despite originating in Russia, The Temporary State has no sympathy for the Russian State and condemns the Russian invasion in Ukraine, as well as any other forms of imperial or nationalistic aggression. As of January 21, 2020, The Temporary State operates from Leipzig.
Heavyweight is the symbolic name for common creative efforts in typeface design established in Prague in 2013. The founding members are Filip Matejicek and Jan Horcik. The name refers to the typographical description of a voluminous font style, its heavy weight. Primarily, however, it express the emphasis put on simplicity, precision of detail, and tasteful design, which can be used variably across graphic design applications. Its contemporary approach to typeface design goes hand in hand with respect for the discipline and its history. Delight in experiment is rooted in a knowledge of rules of typography. Authenticity is an integral prerequisite of the creative strategy, with our signature style being dosed such that the result is original, but still variable in use. In its brief life, Heavyweight has produced fonts that are used globally by institutions such as The New York Times, Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum etc., but also small independent publishing houses and start-ups. Heavyweight fonts are designed and technically crafted to be available for a comprehensive range of uses in print and on websites, in digital applications, broadcasting, etc.
Creating typefaces takes time. It’s a delicate process that involves numerous rounds of revisions, decisions and sometimes even abandonment of the whole project. This catalogue functions as an accessible inventory of fonts that are «In Progress»; to start a conversation about their existence and potential in future designs.
Kostić Type Foundry is located in Belgrade, Serbia. It is a small private foundry, run in cooperation between Zoran and Nikola Kostić (father and son).
Zoran began making fonts in 1987 out of necessity, since his DTP studio needed PostScript Cyrillic fonts which, at the time, were being made by no one. While designing his first font, he discovered a whole new world whose beauty and complexity wove such a spell over him that he’s under its hold to this very day. He created a number of original typefaces like: Batke, Beograd, KosticSans, KosticSerif, Lapidary Capitals, Sketch, DesignerRound, Why Square (licence by Linotype) and Just Square (licence by Linotype) and about ten others, designed on the basis of Old Church Slavonic scripts (Hilandarski Ustav and Monah with 6,400 characters each).
Nikola grew up playing and learning in his father’s DTP studio, where he was surrounded by the amazing world of the late 80’s and early 90’s graphic design, a period when technological breakthroughs opened up new possibilities for everyone in the business. Naturally, he became a graphic designer. He got his master’s degree in graphic design from the Faculty of Applied Arts (University of Arts in Belgrade) in 2002. However, type design was a different story. This peculiar and seemingly uninteresting craft was something he grew to love only when he was in his thirties and years into the business. He had to push himself hard so as to develop the discipline required to master this particular art. By 2016 he has designed more than a dozen typefaces.
Among his most well known typeface designs are Breakers, Argumentum and the awarded Chiavettieri. Once mystified by his father’s craft, Nikola is now his proud partner at Kostić Type Foundry.
Charlotte Rohde is an artist, (type) designer, and writer based in Berlin, DE. Her way of handling ideas of hyperfemininity, the economy of trust and pop culture is bracing her horizontally expanding practice of both very applied and also quite fine arts. She is currently the Guest Professor for Typography and Type Design at Bauhaus Universität Weimar (2022- 2024).
We are a Lausanne based type design studio specializing in the research, design and development of fonts and variable font technology. Our multicultural divers team has years of experience in this unique creative and technologically driven design field. We strive to better understand our global visual communication needs, and to help protect our environment and the global community. With your help we are donating 10% of our proceeds to non-profit organizations committed to protecting our planet and all life on earth.
When an industry is dominated by a single race and gender, this not only creates a lack of diversity in peoples and experiences but ideas and creations as well. That’s why Vocal Type is working to diversify design through the root of all (good) works of graphic design—typography.
Each typeface highlights a piece of history from a specific underrepresented race, ethnicity, or gender—from the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Argentina to the Civil Rights Movement in America.
Vocal launched in 2016 with growing support from people who feel the same way as I we do. Now I've we’ve created a type foundry that introduces a diverse perspective from design communities that had a still small voice in the design industry.
Finaltype ist ein Kollektiv aus Gestalterïnnen, Künstlerïnnen und Lehrenden. Wir verstehen Gestaltung als ästhetische Praxis, die sich nicht mehr nur im Werk, sondern im Prozess selbst verwirklicht. So forschen und lehren wir.
Gradient is an independent type foundry and design practice with main focus on the production of high quality typefaces and type systems. In Gradient, we strongly believe that the deconstruction of traditional approach in typography combined with various type experiments, can re-imagine the future of contemporary typography. Gradient is run by Milos Mitrovic, and is based in the wonderful city of Bergen, Norway.
British Standard Type creates, publishes, and distributes retail and custom typefaces. Established to explore the creative potential of new type technologies. From artistic commissions to global brand launches, we provide enduring, effectively crafted digital tools for typographic communication.
Setup Type is a Slovak type foundry and design studio founded in 2009 by Ondrej Jób. The studio’s activities range from designing retail and custom typefac...
I am an independent type designer based in The Hague. I make logotypes, lettering, and typefaces. Within my expertise I like to solve new problems and to systemize and automate processes when needed. But also I like putting emotions into all of the work I do and find a personality in every project. I like working with people, because nothing is made in vacuum. Feel free to contact me if you’re interested in doing something together.
