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Baugenossenschaft Zuffenhausen
The basis of the new BGZ logo is the semibold variant of Neue DIN XWide, which is also used as the corporate font. The capital G in the logo has been modified in such a way that it builds a bridge to its serif predecessor, which served the brand for over 100 years.
Simplified education license
As we also wanted to simplify our academic offering as much as possible, we are introducing a unified educational license. We are extending the 50% discount on the entire font range from educational institutions to now include students, school pupils, trainees and teachers.
More fun with Trial Fonts
In our pursuit of always improving and refining what we do, we’re delighted to share our new and radically revamped and improved Trial Fonts.
Font Licensing made even simpler
Since our launch, we’ve striven to offer the simplest and fairest font license model. We regularly check whether we can still live up to this claim whilst keeping pace with changing customer expectations. The time had come for a comprehensive update of the Fontwerk license.
Fontwerk.com 2.0 – new, improved and easier to use
Over two years in the making, we are proud and over the moon to finally release our brand new website. With all the new changes, we are not just presenting a new version of our online home, but are taking the next big step with the entire Fontwerk project.
Semi-Custom Font for Seibert
Seibert turned to us because McQueen was already being considered as the new corporate font – as part of the gradual redesign of the visual identity. Two logo fonts were built in just six weeks, which ensure comfortable and safe use of the variants for all employees.
Logo Design for Trixie
The supplier of pet accessories, Trixie, turned to Fontwerk with the brief to modernize its logo.
Naturenergie
Together with a large character set, Pangea’s range of services corresponds 100 percent to naturenergie’s brand essence: transparent, clear, powerful.
Bischöfliches Priesterseminar
“Central to my design is the color red and its emotional diversity as well as the friendly font Pangea,” is how Jana Heinz summarizes her system.
Neue DIN wins Silver at Hiiibrand Awards 2023
Neue DIN has been awarded yet another award (number 6 now!) and we are absolutely over the moon that this relative newbie to the Fontwerk family continues to gain recognition.
Hamster hops to victory
Joe Stitzlein’s Color Font Hamster has just received a great deal of recognition: The prestigious “Certificate of Excellence” in the 70th TDC competition.
Schlossatelier Monaise
For corporate designer Luca Marie Julien, the neutral, well-constructed McQueen Grotesk was the perfect complement to her own font family Monaise.
Push
Seven widths in eight weights? Challenge accepted!
Neue DIN wins iF Design Award 2024
We are delighted to share the news that Neue DIN has also just won the prestigious iF DESIGN AWARD 2024 in the category Communication → Typography/Signage.
African Film + Art Festival
‘Choosing a font was vital because we required one that could also handle Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo or Lingala movie or song titles.’, says designer Osmond Tshuma about one of the reasons for picking Pangea Afrikan.
Iberdrola
‘Pangea is a digital, versatile, and easily recognizable typeface family, serving as a crucial asset for Iberdrola.’, Design Bridge and Partners designer Marco Walker states.
Arcomed
McQueen Grotesk ensures a light, unmistakable appearance both in printed material and on the website of the Swiss Company Arcomed.
Powerhouse
Melbourne-based design studio Side By Side chose Pangea for the visual identity of the Australian environmental company Powerhouse.
Granada Limpia
Colorful illustrations by Barcelona-based cartoonist and comic book writer Genie Espinosa paired with Nikolai.
4 People Who Care
The packaging design of 4 People Who Care’s product portfolio was completely redeveloped and the brand’s distinctive typeface is now Nice Headline.
Neue DIN wins a German Design Award
The German Design Award is one of the most prestigious creative awards in the world and we are proud that our work has been recognized and awarded this accolade by the German Design Council.
Aicono
Typographically, the Aicono brand is carried by McQueen. Designer A. Bjerk explains: ‘McQueen’s playful and distinctive design adds a touch of creativity and uniqueness to the brand, making it memorable.’
Competence Center for Water
Bureau Est have developed a completely new brand, website and literature concept for KWB using a customized Pangea.
Andrea Grudda
As her website is 90% text, the visual identity of the Andrea Grudda brand is primarily influenced by Nikolai’s identity.
MANA
The Pangea Typeface Collection corresponds to both the MANA design taste and its vision for sustainability.
Solomiya № 2
After the first edition, the designers were so ‘thrilled with the smooth appearance of the typeface’ that Nice (Poster, Headline and Text) was being used again in the 2nd edition.
ADC Bronze Award for Neue DIN
Neue DIN has won one of Germany’s most coveted creative accolades.
The Map of Beauty
Case Micro was being used for Marco Kugel’s documentary film ‘The Map of Beauty’. Since the documentary is mainly viewed on TV or streamed, the choice of the right font plays a decisive role in the legibility of the text overlays.
Egna
In Autumn 2021, the new secondhand mall Egna opened its doors in the Norwegian city of Bodø. For their house font, Egna chose the upright styles of the eccentric McQueen, pointing out the strong contrasts and whimsical ink traps.
REA Group
The Pangea typefaces are now the new corporate fonts and used globally across Australia’s seventh largest digital brand, REA Group. The public company operates realestate.com.au, the country’s largest real estate platform.
Berliner Hochschule für Technik
In 2021, the Beuth University of Applied Sciences became the BHT. To mark the occasion, the university launched a new corporate design featuring Case and Nice Text fonts.
Hamster
We are getting serious – with fun fonts!
Neue DIN
The German type icon reimagined
Demostack
The cloud-based design tool Demostack was developed for the Sales, Marketing and Partnership Managers of SaaS companies to set up, control and maintain a product demo environment. Demostack’s visual identity and digital design makes great use of Pangea Text.
The Spirited Garden
After years of developing brand concepts for others, the Rotterdam designer Emily van Vught launched her own brand called The Spirited Garden. Its typography is set in Nikolai, stimulating imagination, while small print, set in Pangea, provides transparent information.
b-good
With the evolution from B2B to B2C business, a revamp and revision of b-good’s visual identity became necessary. Creative Director, Merve Gülay chose Turbine as their house font.
West and Pangea recognized
Both West and Pangea have won awards in the Joseph Binder Awards 2022.
AVIVX ‘Dark Temple’
Written in capitals on a black background, the typography for the first AVIVX release was meant to counterbalance the music. A perfect job for Pangea.
Nice wins Award of Excellence
Out of over 1,100 entries to this year’s competition just 137 were selected by the jury and awarded across fifteen different categories.
KARAK
Perhaps the rebelliously constructed letters K and k were the calling card that opened the door to Nikolai as a brand font for KARAK tiles.
Ordinary Lifee
McQueen’s strong stroke width contrasts and deep cuts in curve transitions ensure that it gives the identity of Ordinary Lifee a distinctive profile.
Environment Agent
Supermarker sparks customer interest in busy and distracting shopping situations, but it attracts even more attention in the classroom.
Gropyus
On the Gropyus website as well as in the app, the typefaces Pangea and Pangea Text perform excellently, exuding confidence and credibility.
Berlin
The Be Berlin campaign got its unmistakable profile from the typeface Change, which later was used across the city’s communication.
Berlin Fire Brigade
The Berlin Fire Brigade is the largest one in Germany. Berlin also ranks 5th in the world, coming after Tokyo, New York, Paris and London. It uses Alessio Leonardi’s Change typeface which has been made publicly available by Fontwerk.
Change
The only constant
s.Oliver
In the summer of 2021, fashion label s.Oliver reformed its brand identity in collaboration with the Munich agency Serviceplan: a new logo, new tagline and a new house font, Case.
Solomiya
Photographers Sebastian Wells and Vsevolod Kazarin decided to start a project with and about young people in Ukraine and so the foundation was laid for an extraordinary art magazine – set in Nice Poster and Nice Text.
The Blufftop at Rocheport
The Blufftop at Rocheport is a trailside vineyard retreat located ten miles west of Columbia off Interstate 70. Among other typefaces, it uses West.
L’Amour du Pain
‘Designing a new brand is about avoiding clichés.’ At the heart of the boulangerie-patisserie’s brand design is Nikolai. The agency’s goal was a contemporary, fresh appearance without losing sight of tradition.
200 Years of the Frauenbad
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Frauen- und Carolinenbad in the Austrian spa town of Baden, an exhibition at the Arnulf Rainer Museum documented its history.The accompanying catalog is based on a perfect combination of Case and Nikolai.
10 Years SAPV
On the occasion of its anniversary, the Specialized Palliative Care Outpatient Team in Ludwigsburg pays tribute to the work of the facility and all its stakeholders in a commemorative publication, which is set in Pangea.
Font Engineering for Hyundai Card Corporate Font
Hyundai Card was the first Korean fintech brand to transform its corporate typeface into a variable font. The design work was overseen by the original designers, while the technical development was our responsibility.
Sundance Festival
Many famous directors have celebrated their breakthroughs at the largest independent film gathering in the US, including Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers and Jim Jarmusch. The 2022 edition used the Pangea family as its house font.
Nice
Clarity × Liveliness × Legibility
K’UP Agency
On the website of kleinundpläcking, Case is used in Regular and Bold, where it shows its strength in terms of readability and clarity.
Kintell
Kintell is an Australian technology company specializing in video-based learning: from 1-to-1 expert advice to solutions for teams and companies. Its choice of Pangea Text as its font is therefore backed by experts.
Jonas Arleth
Ten years ago, Jonas Arleth started his career as an independent developer and trainer. Today, more than one million people a year attend his courses and projects which are designed using Pangea and Pangea Text.
Honey (PayPal)
Under the wing of Paypal, the Honey apps’s visual identity was also strengthened, among other things with the Pangea font family.
Foodspring
A young, dynamic font is part of the visual magic of a young, dynamic brand. The website team of the direct-to-consumer startup for sports nutrition opted for Pangea Text.
Magnitude
A year before the acquisition, Magnitude prepared itself: with a revised visual identity in which the fonts, Pangea and Pangea Text play a leading role.
Pangea Afrikan
Fresh free fonts for 430 million
effektkommunikation
Making a typographic impact in dark blue on a light green background is Ika Black, the second most powerful of the nine weights in the Ika family.
Font Engineering for ZDF Corporate Font
The design studio bBox completely revamped and redesigned the corporate typeface for Germany’s largest TV channel, with Fontwerk responsible for font engineering. Taking a lead from Helvetica was the guiding goal and brief from the ZDF.
Kravt
The KRAVT website has undergone a full revamp – using the Case typeface – and now shines in new splendor. It goes without saying that they practice what they preach.
Fontwerk.com wins American Web Design Award
We are over the moon that Fontwerk.com has been awarded an American Web Design Award in their 21st awards showcase.
Coronado Bikes
Coronado’s three brand values are: locally made, quality and love for the environment – these qualities and values are reflected in the logotype which is set in Nikolai.
Ika honored by three
We celebrate Jörg Hemker’s beautiful Ika being recognized in three of the industry’s most prestigious awards.
Koppla
With its broad proportions, super elliptical curves and close spacing, Turbine embodies what craftspeople require: stability, precision and harmony.
WMN Magazine
In search of an intimate, combative and passionate typeface for the WMN Magazine (A Publication of Lesbian Art and Poetry), Website and Promotional Materials, their makers came across Nikolai.
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
In Dresden’s world famous museum, West’s capital letters are used almost exclusively, center justified, which corresponds to the typographical conventions of the Baroque period.
Capitale Design Studio
The website of the German-Austrian design office Capitale is a feast for typographers’ eyes. Three words – set in the idiosyncratic geometric sans serif font West – on three lines fill the screen.
West
A compelling mix of conciseness and pragmatism
Ridley Howard ‘Shorelines’
When Creative Director Magnus Naddermier was hired by the Paris-based gallery Andréhn-Schiptjenko to design ‘Shorelines’—the first publication covering the works of American painter Ridley Howard—he decided to use the Display variant of the McQueen family.
Schaumberg Apple Juice
Designer Stefanie Schönig was hired by the municipality of Tholey to create the label and glasses for the town’s own apple juice. She chose the highly versatile headline, poster and logo font Nikolai.
Case
A matter-of-fact Neo-Grotesque with surprising nuances
Nick Stanztechnik
The design of a Corporate Identity for Nick Stanztechnik, an established provider of sheet metal, plastic, metal and stone processing, using Turbine.
Turbine
Technical precision that leaves a lasting impression
Supermarker
Supermarker’s Mission: To Sell!
Logo Design Studies
Romaine’s designer, Aad van Dommelen, wanted to show the true beauty of Romaine at work.
Cover Studies
Aad van Dommelen created some fictional cover designs to show Romaine flexing her typographic muscles.
Romaine
A shockingly modern 450 year old
Pangea
Can a typeface make the world a better place? Well, it can try to.
End of Life Times
A newspaper about death? As if that doesn’t get attention already, the creative team chose an exceptionally characterful font for it. Used on the cover and in the headlines, Nikolai can capture attention without taking away the dignity of the serious topic.
Nikolai
‘The ancients stole all our great ideas from us.’, Mark Twain complained. ‘Nonsense!’ we respond.
EPFL+ECAL Lab Exhibition
During the ‘Salone internazionale del Mobile’, the EPFL + ECAL Lab organized the ‘Hands on Vision’ exhibition. A previously unpublished version of McQueen served the organizers as a suitable font for displaying the accompanying static information.
McQueen
God save the McQueen
Space Cocktails
Jörg Hemker created this beautiful fictitious use case to illustrate Ika Compact’s capabilities for both packaging and advertising purposes.
Poster Series
Ika’s designer, Jörg Hemker, created some inspiring promotional mockups to showcase the power of his typeface.
Ika
Timelessness of the highest order
