Change

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Change™ is an unconventional typeface with many peculiar details that is open to the new and embodies change. According to Proof&Co. The Weekly 39, 2022, Change is ‘A benchmark in humanist type design’.

Release 2022

Alessio Leonardi

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Alessio Leonardi

Even though he has spent three decades in his “new” home in Berlin, Alessio Leonardi has retained that extra special Florentine gene that exudes a wit rarely experienced in this country. A coffee with the young-at-heart professional always promises to lead to a stimulating discussion covering everything from professional to personal topics.

A glance at his CV proves that the Communication Designer and Type Designer knows what he is talking about. After studying at ISIA in Urbino, he was drawn to Erik Spiekermann at MetaDesign Berlin before running his own design offices (Leonardi.Wollein, Lion&Bee) and finally, after being employed as a Visiting Professor for Corporate and Information Design at Burg Giebichenstein and for Typography at HBKsaar, in 2010 he was appointed as Professor of Visual Communication at HAWK Hildesheim. Throughout his career, he has been (co-)responsible for numerous large corporate design projects, including WDR, Springer Verlag, Schering, Linotype or CECIL.

Alessio Leonardi designed his first analog typeface families in 1989. In 1992, he created his first digital famlies for FontShop International and Linotype. With Alexander Branczyk, Heike Nehl, Sybille Schlaich and Thomas Nagel, he founded one of the first digital type publishers called Face2Face. He then went on to set up Fontology with Fabrizio Schiavi. Some of his typefaces were designed exclusively for the legendary techno magazine Frontpage.

In the new millennium, he started his own label BuyMyFonts. This is also where the Corporate typeface for Berlin, the BMF Change, which is now published by Fontwerk in revised form for the rest of the world. Other work highlights include the complex type system for Schering AG (now Bayer), the Bröhan typeface for Bröhan Art Advisors Inc. and BDFoundation for the Bröhan Design Foundation, as well as FF Letterine, FF Matto, FF Handwriter and FF Graffio for FontFont and BMF Elettriche, which, in his own words, is “the largest type family in the world … until now”.

Besides speaking at (always a highlight!) and moderating conferences (e.g. TYPO Berlin), Alessio Leonardi also writes for design magazines and has published numerous books including: “From the Cow to the Typewriter: the (true) History of Writing”, “A Line of Type. 120 years typographic history” (with Jan Middendorp for the Mergenthaler Edition), “Mr. Typo and the lost letters” (also with Jan Middendorp) and “How passion ruins our lives.” and the typo graphic novel “Mr.Typo and the treasure of design”. This concludes his bio for now, before we have to publish it as a book …

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Fonts on Fontwerk

Change

Design Contributions

Andreas Frohloff

Imme Leonardi

Amélie Bonet Cyrillic and Greek Consultancy

Donny Trương Vietnamese Consultancy

Mastering, Production

Olli Meier

Marketing

Alessio Leonardi Naming, Illustrations
Priska Wollein Naming, Conceptual Contribution
Helmut Ness Naming, Conceptual Contribution
Ivo Gabrowitsch Copywriting, Specimen
Norman Posselt Photography
Anja Knust Graphic Design
Jürgen Siebert Copywriting
Lucy Beckley English Translation

Design Period

2008–2022

Release History

September 22, 2022

Recommended Use

Advertising & Packaging
Film & TV
Logo, Branding & CI
Poster & Billboards
Sports
Wayfinding & Signage

Formats

Static .otf, .woff2
Variable .ttf, .woff2

Additional formats on request

Licenses

Trial Free test license
Base Includes Desktop, Web and Social Media use
Extended Larger volume, App or Audio-Visual

Additional licenses on request

Modifications, Extensions

Available on request

Variable Fonts

Included in the Family package

1 axis: weight
Web file sizes .woff2: 108 KB Upright;  118 Italic

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Change™ is a trademark of Fontwerk GmbH

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A	Afrikaans Albanian Asu
B	Basque Bemba Bena Breton
C	Catalan Cornish Croatian Czech
D	Danish Dutch
E	Embu English Esperanto Estonian
F	Faroese Filipino Finnish French Friulian
G	Galician Ganda German Gusii
H	Hungarian
I	Icelandic Inari Sami Indonesian Irish Italian
J	Jola-Fonyi
K	Kabuverdianu Kalenjin Kamba Kikuyu Kinyarwanda
L	Latvian Lithuanian Lower Sorbian Luo Luxembourgish Luyia
M	Machame Makhuwa-Meetto Makonde Malagasy Maltese Manx Meru Morisyen
N	North Ndebele Northern Sami Norwegian Bokmål Norwegian Nynorsk Nyankole
O	Oromo
P	Polish Portuguese
Q	Quechua
R	Romanian Romansh Rombo Rundi Rwa
S	Samburu Sango Sangu Sena Serbian Shambala Shona Slovak Slovenian Soga Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Swiss German
T	Taita Teso Turkish
U	Upper Sorbian Uzbek
V	Vietnamese Volapük Vunjo
W	Walser Welsh

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