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The process of Pensum Sans

Pensum shot the serif, but didn’t shoot no legibility

Just chopping off the serifs? If only it could have been that easy to make Pensum Sans! Type designers like making their work more and more complex, more and more subtle. Read more

The Story of Bridge Text and Head

Make it different to match

Here you can find out how Mona Franz’s Bridge Text and Head are connected by similar treatments but make new paths by combining different design approaches. Read more

Making a Schablonenschrift

Cut, select, delete, repeat!

Halvar Stencil is here and ready to max the gap! Here’s how Paul Eslage managed to handle all the variable gap sizes, weights and widths; struggled through the Cyrillic and Greek letters and tried to include all of the three TypeMates’ opinions. Read more

The making of Halvar

Engineering Halvar — type design as trialogue

‘Four masters, plus italics and we are done!’ we said. Designing a plain but complex font system with three designers, an intern plus consultants felt like it would be easy. Read more

The story how Sinews Sans was re-mastered

Back in Black

According to some designers, typefaces are never finished, only abandoned. But sometimes typefaces are found again. This is the story how Sinews Sans was re-mastered and trained for pan-European language support. Read more

Introducing Cera Compact and Cera Condensed

Super space-saving slender shapes

Along with a major update to Cera Pro, we’re introducing two new widths to the Cera Collection. With Cera Compact Pro for efficient text and the super tight Cera Condensed Pro for headlines, the geometric sans is now a multi-width typeface system. Read more

Making Of Meret

Making Meret

See early sketches and the research methods Nils Thomsen used to make Meret Pro a well-fitting and economical newspaper typeface.  Read more

Pensum Display vs. Pensum Pro

Display: Different size, a different design!

With our latest release, you might be curious to see what the differences are between Pensum Display and our text monster, Pensum Pro Read more

The story of a contemporary serif

A closer look at Harrison Serif

A modern slab serif that ranges between capable and casual is the latest release of Jakob Runge and Lisa Fischbach. Read more

The making of Cera Round Pro

Round and round we go

Inspired by the geometric character of Cera Pro, we — Lisa Fischbach and Jakob Runge — were excited to see what it would be like to make a soft version, a Cera Round. Read more

The making of Comspot

From Corporate to Public

After being put to work as a custom font for the large hardware and  software reseller Comspot, the eponymous typeface was extended and is finally available to the public. Here is how Comspot made it from corporate to retai. Read more

The making of Urby

Branding a typeface

Urby and Urby Soft were designed with muscular branding in mind — and here’s how they got ready to rumble. Read more

Making of: Jabana

Background of Jabana and its OpenType madness

Documentation about the roots and OpenType expansion of the Jabana family. Read more

Making Of Cera Brush

Hand-crafted high-res details

The brush-made version of Cera Pro did not use any digital printed effect only pure hand-craft. Read more

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Norbert, Cera Pro, Resonay, Pensum Sans, Sombra, Kaius Pro, Halvar Mittelschrift, Pensum Pro, Bridge Head, Halvar Stencil Breitschrift, Meret Pro, TJ Evolette A, Pensum Display, Mikkel, Cera Round Pro, Harrison Serif Pro, Halvar Breitschrift, Bridge Text, Halvar Stencil Mittelschrift, Halvar Engschrift, Halvar Stencil Engschrift, Cera Stencil Pro, Sinews Sans Pro, Comspot, Urby, Cera Condensed Pro, Muriza, Conto, JABANA ALT, Cera Brush, Urby Soft, Jabana Extras, Conto Slab, JABANA, Conto Narrow, Conto Condensed, Conto Compressed