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Vienna Airport adopts Fedra Sans
In June 2012 Vienna International Airport opened a new terminal which more than doubled the size of the airport. The new terminal was designed by architectural venture...
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Irma Screen, new hinted fonts
We are pleased to introduce Irma Screen. Irma Screen is designed to work equally well on paper and the computer screen. It is available in TrueType format only and has been specially optimised for...
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Different Kinds of Hinting
We at Typotheque care deeply how our fonts render in all media, whether in print or on screen. We started working on our first screen font back in 2002, and after we introduced our webfont system in...
View ArticleWebfont service improvements
We constantly monitor the performance of our webfont service and work on ways make it faster and more efficient. Today we are announcing technical changes that you can take advantage of to get...
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Karloff, convergence of beauty and ugliness
Animation: Thibault de Fournas & Christopher Wilson, Screenplay: Peter Bilak, Voiceover: Harvey Gold, Music: Nicolas Jaar. Karloff explores the idea of irreconcilable differences, how two extremes...
View ArticleWorks That Work, a magazine of unexpected creativity
For the past eight months we have worked on a concept of a new magazine. We are pleased to announce it now. Works That Work is conceived as a magazine that looks beyond mere portfolios, concerning...
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New fonts: Irma Text Narrow
Irma Text Narrow is a space saving addition to Irma type system. While the original Irma Text has generous proportions, the Narrow version is 20% more condensed, yet still preserving the Irma’s DNA....
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Print, Online and App
360 is a new Dutch magazine that gathers a wide selection of articles from over 800 reputable foreign periodicals and translates them into Dutch. Every two weeks its readers get a fresh compilation of...
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Works That Work, a new design magazine
In October 2012, after a year of preparation, we launched a crowdfunding campaign for a new design magazine, Works That Work. We were asking our potential readers whether there was room on the market...
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Supernova, a family of scripts
Supernova is a new family that combines the spontaneity of a script typeface with the versatility of multiple weights and cuts. The development of script typefaces has largely been limited to...
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Type & Carpets
The best work is often the most personal work. Work done not to fulfil somebody’s design brief, but for your own pleasure in your spare time. Recently we were looking for a carpet for our new house....
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Lumin typeface family
Lumin is an extensive type family designed by our longtime collaborator Nikola Djurek and intended especially for editorial use. The Lumin family includes slab-serif, sans serif, condensed and display...
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Client Spotlight: Communication Arts magazine
Communication Arts is the world’s largest magazine for designers, and over its more than 50 years of existence it has kept up closely with the rapidly evolving media of visual communication. It was the...
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Type as public service
Type surrounds us in a multitude of different forms, not just in books and newspapers, but on signs, television, computer monitors, cellphone displays and tablet screens. New communication...
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Lava — a Multilingual Typeface for Running Text
Lava was originally designed for Works That Work magazine, but far transcends its original application. It’s a no-nonsense workhorse typeface that can handle large quantities of text with ease. It’s...
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Harir, a modern Arabic typeface in three optical sizes
Animation: Bahman Eslami, Screenplay: Peter Bilak, Voiceover: Dinah Lammiman, Music: Ali Rezaei. Harir is a modern Arabic text typeface featuring three optical sizes, the first typeface of its kind....
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Extended Greek and Cyrillic Character Sets for Three Popular, Typeface Families
On November 8, 2013 Peter Biľak will be speaking in Moscow at Serebro Nabora, the first Russian type conference. Among other things, he will be presenting Typotheque’s latest Cyrillic fonts: a...
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History, Typotheque’s Multi-Layer Type System, Now Supports Greek and Cyrillic
History is a project that began even before Typotheque was founded in 1999. Early experiments with a layered, modular type system began as far back as 1994, but it was not until 2004 that Peter Biľak...
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Karloff Pro: Beauty and Ugliness Now Converge in Cyrillic
Karloff is one of the most conventional typefaces in our collection, revisiting the history of Didots and English Italian models. At the same time, it is one of our most conceptual projects,...
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Tribunal — At Home in Print and on Screen
Tribunal was originally developed as the custom font of a cross-platform magazine, designed from the start to work equally well in both print and screen media. Rather than trying to force digital...
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