Katerina Korolevtseva — Kyiv, Ukraine

“I wanted to have a big idea under my first typeface, Misto, which was to develop tourism and bring life to my native town, Slavutych, which has great cultural potential. The visual inspiration came from the architecture of the city. It’s amazing to feel the influence of doing something good for my city simply by creating a typeface. Also, it’s...

NM Type — Noel Pretorius, María Ramos — Stockholm, Sweden / Santiago de Compostela, Spain

“For our experimental variable font Movement we found inspiration in an unusual field, contemporary dance. We observed and analysed the movements of the South African dancer Andile Vellem. Trying to translate his movements into type forms was a challenging but wonderful learning experience. Connecting art and design is something we look for and feel passionate about. We also connected art...

Ryan Bugden
 — Brooklyn, New York City, USA

“My typeface Spec came from a curiosity about abstraction. I wondered how abstract I could make the alphabet while maintaining readability based on context. At first, I refreshed my knowledge of Gestalt principles of grouping and started making absurd sketches of individual letters. Then I proceeded to subject all other glyphs to the same intangible principles of abstraction that I...

BÜRO UFHO — Singapore

“We want to evolve 3D type beyond basic depth extrusions, so we view them as type sculptures, where we not only design the frontal face of a type, but all its facets. How would the type look from an angle as a real-life installation? How do we make it delightful when people walk around these fabrications in the real world...

29Letters — 29LT — Madrid, Spain

“The end of 2020 will mark the release of a new 29LT type system inspired by the Aljamiado script used by the Moors of medieval Spain. After months of intensive research on the manuscripts and analyzing their linguistic and typographic aspects, we came up with the idea of creating a new type family consisting of several styles ranging from geometric...

Kometa Typefaces — Brno, Czech Republic

“Making letters fall down like dominoes. Labil Grotesk started as a mere afternoon pastime that I eventually turned into my master’s thesis. One thing led to another and soon I was going down the rabbit hole of researching typographic classifications and genres that would represent the core idea in the most eloquent way. I settled on a somewhat generic, unassuming...