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Park City Main Street Atmosphere – Sundance Film Festival 2022 (© 2022 Sundance Institute | Photo by Stephen Speckman)
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.
Fonts in use: Case for kleinundpläcking
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.
Pangea in Use: Honey browser extension
Honey (PayPal)
Under the wing of Paypal, the Honey apps’s visual identity was also strengthened, among other things with the Pangea font family.
Fonts in Use: Pangea Text for Foodspring
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.
Fonts in Use: Pangea and Pangea Text for Magnitude
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.
Fonts in use: Nikolai typeface for WMN Magazine
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.
Fonts in use: West typeface for Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
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.
Fonts in use: McQueen typeface for Ridley Howard Exhibition Book ‘Shorelines’
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.
Ika Compact typeface in use for Space Cocktails
Space Cocktails
Jörg Hemker created this beautiful fictitious use case to illustrate Ika Compact’s capabilities for both packaging and advertising purposes.
Ika typeface in use for a Poster Series
Poster Series
Ika’s designer, Jörg Hemker, created some inspiring promotional mockups to showcase the power of his typeface.
McQueen typeface in use at Milan Design Week 2019
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.
Nikolai typeface for the End of Life Times
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.
Romaine typeface Cover Studies
Cover Studies
Aad van Dommelen created some fictional cover designs to show Romaine flexing her typographic muscles.
Romaine Logo Design Studies
Logo Design Studies
Romaine’s designer, Aad van Dommelen, wanted to show the true beauty of Romaine at work.