Ika Collection

Timelessness of the highest order

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The Ika™ Collection: While Ika is one of the most legible typefaces of our label, we claim Ika Compact to be the ideal symbiosis of American grotesque and classic European sans.

Release 2020 · Update 2021

2 Subfamilies

Jörg Hemker

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Jörg Hemker

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Jörg Hemker is a seasoned expert when it comes to knowing exactly what European companies need in terms of typefaces and branding.

Over the years, he has gained vast experience and has designed comprehensive font systems and logotypes for brands such as Bosch, Blaupunkt, Harry, dm, Metabo and Jette Joop. He also developed communications and branding solutions for Deutsche Telekom, ARD, rbb, Rheinische Post, Fresenius SE, Mainova, Mercedes-Benz, Allianz, Commerzbank, State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Würth, Alperia, REWE, Jil Sander … the list goes on, but we’ll stop here due to lack of space ;)

A commonality across all of Jörg’s typefaces is that they don’t ride the latest wave or comply with the newest trend, they are quite simply timeless. Five of his typefaces, FF Zwo (2002), FF Zwo Correspondence (2002), FF Sero (2011), FF Nort (2017) and FF Nort Headline (2020) all appeared in the renowned FontFont library.

He has won pretty much every communication and font design award and accolade out there: DDC, reddot, iF, German Design Award, Communication Arts, ADC New York, amongst many others. Jörg’s motto: Never compete, never compare (Karl Lagerfeld). We are over the moon that he has found a new home with Fontwerk.

More about Jörg

Fonts on Fontwerk

Ika Collection

Design Contributions

Andreas Frohloff

Eugene Yukechev Cyrillic Consultancy

Mastering, Production

Andreas Frohloff
Christoph Koeberlin

Marketing

Jörg Hemker Naming
Ivo Gabrowitsch Copywriting, Specimen, Photograpy
Lucy Beckley English Translation
Anja Knust Imagery, Graphic Design

Design Period

2017–2020

Release History

July 20, 2020; Variable Fonts July 6, 2021

Awards

D&AD Awards 2021 Shortlist
2021 ADC Awards Merit
Modern Cyrillic 2021 Awards Shortlist

Recommended Use

Editorial & Publishing
Film & TV
Small Text
Logo, Branding & CI
Software & Gaming
Poster & Billboards
Wayfinding & Signage
Responsive Designs

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 particular Family packages

1 axis: weight Ika VAR, width Ika Compact VAR
Web file sizes .woff2: 101 KB Ika Upright; 112 KB Ika Italic; 71 KB Ika Compact

Trademarks

Ika™ is a trademark of Fontwerk GmbH

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Languages

A	Afrikaans Albanian Asu Azerbaijani
B	Basque Belarusian Bemba Bena Bosnian Breton Bulgarian
C	Catalan Chechen Cornish Croatian Czech
D	Danish Dutch
E	Embu English Esperanto Estonian
F	Faroese Filipino Finnish French Friulian
G	Galician Ganda German Greek 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	Macedonian Machame Makhuwa-Meetto Makonde Malagasy Maltese Manx Meru Morisyen
N	North Ndebele Northern Sami Norwegian Bokmål Norwegian Nynorsk Nyankole
O	Oromo Ossetic
P	Polish Portuguese
Q	Quechua
R	Romanian Romansh Rombo Rundi Russian Rwa
S	Samburu Sango Sangu Sena Serbian Serbian Shambala Shona Slovak Slovenian Soga Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Swiss German
T	Taita Teso Turkish
U	Ukrainian Upper Sorbian Uzbek Uzbek
V	Volapük Vunjo
W	Walser Welsh

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	Volapük Vunjo
W	Walser Welsh

Greek

A	Azerbaijani
B	Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian
C	Chechen
M	Macedonian
O	Ossetic
R	Russian
S	Serbian
U	Ukrainian Uzbek

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