Fontwerk
Articles

Designing typefaces is our passion. Shaping them into stories is what drives us.

Categories
All Client Work Fonts in Use Font Story News Essay
Fonts in use: Typefaces Pangea and Nikolai for the music agency everso
everso
With authentic photos and video clips, precise text and new fonts, Northlight has taken the music agency Everso’s website and printed materials to another level. The fonts chosen were Pangea Regular and Nikolai Light Italic – a combination of clarity and character.
Is your logo still fresh? Checklist for decision-makers.
Is your logo still fresh?
An essay by our guest author Jürgen Siebert, who explains how a brand’s logo can become a real value-adding factor—including a checklist for decision-makers.
Fonts in use: The two Fontwerk typeface families Nice Headline and Pangea Text lay the foundation for the new identity of Unique Moments, the five-day music festival of the National Museum Zurich.
Unique Moments
The two Fontwerk typeface families Nice Headline and Pangea Text lay the foundation for the new identity of Unique Moments, the five-day music festival of the Swiss National Museum Zurich.
Fonts in use: The Pangea Typeface Collection for Hamburg Sustainability Conference 2024
Hamburg Sustainability Conference 2024
There was really only one suitable typeface for the visual identity of a conference on sustainability: Pangea.
Case study: Creating a custom lettering for Trixie
Custom lettering for Trixie
Trixie’s tagline “Friends for Life” – previously set in a standard font – was to be made more individual, more concise and more emotional and needed to work in German and English.
Fonts in Use: Pangea Condensed for the Berlinale 2025
Berlinale 2025
To contrast with the strong colors, the designer of the 2025 edition of the International Film Festival, Claudia Schramke, was looking for a high-quality, classic-looking font. She came across Pangea Condensed.
Fonts in Use: Pangea Typeface Collection for Klinikverbund Südwest
Klinikverbund Südwest
A central aspect of KVSW’s rebranding is the typography, in which the Pangea family plays an essential role. This clear, geometric yet softly formed font design reflects the modern values ​​of the clinic group and is used in both the logo and as the primary font.
Fonts in Use: Neue DIN typeface for Baugenossenschaft Zuffenhausen
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.
Fontwerk case study: The Seibert team has already celebrated the new corporate design internally and it will be rolled out over the course of the year.
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.
Case study: Modernization of Trixie’s logo – Trixie celebrated its 50th anniversary and introduced its new identity at Interzoo in Nuremberg, the world’s leading trade fair for the pet industry
Logo Design for Trixie
The supplier of pet accessories, Trixie, turned to Fontwerk with the brief to modernize its logo.
The Pangea typeface is naturenergie’s new corporate font family
Naturenergie
Together with a large character set, Pangea’s range of services corresponds 100 percent to naturenergie’s brand essence: transparent, clear, powerful.
The African version of the inclusive font family Pangea serves as the house font for the African Film & Art Festival
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.
A subtly adapted typeface Pangea (IberPangea) in use for the visual identity of the fifth largest energy company in the world, Iberdrola
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.
The Nice type system in use for the Soлomiya Art Magazine Nº 2 – Cover, Nice Poster
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.
Fonts in Use: A customized Pangea typeface for the Competence Center for Water, Berlin
Competence Center for Water
Bureau Est have developed a completely new brand, website and literature concept for KWB using a customized Pangea.
MANA The Movement (sustainable fashion brand) using the Pangea Typeace Collection
MANA
The Pangea Typeface Collection corresponds to both the MANA design taste and its vision for sustainability.
Australia’s largest real estate platform, realeastate.com.au, advertising at the Sydney Cricket Ground (Australian Rules Football: Sydney Swans vs Geelong Cats) using Pangea fonts
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.
Fonts in Use: Case Micro and Case Text for the new corporate design of the Berliner Hochschule für Technik
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.
The typefaces Nikolai and Pangea in use for The Spirited Garden’s visual identity and packaging design.
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.
The typeface Turbine in use for the visual identity and packaging design of the b-good health brand.
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.
The typeface McQueen Display in use for Ordinary Lifee, the Songdo-based café where you can gain an extra hour daily
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.
Change Letter typeface (yet unreleased) in use as Berlin’s corporate typeface – Brandenburg Gate
Berlin
The Be Berlin campaign got its unmistakable profile from the typeface Change, which later was used across the city’s communication.
Change typeface and Change Letter (yet unreleased) in use as the corporate typeface of the Berlin Fire Brigade. – The Berlin ambulances adorned with Change
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.
The Nice typeface superfamily in use for the Soлomiya Art Magazine – Cover, Nice Poster
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.
West typeface in use for the trailside vineyard retreat The Blufftop at Rocheport
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.
Nikolai typeface in use for the boulangerie-patisserie L’Amour du Pain in Vienna
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.
Fonts in use: Nikolai typeface for Coronado Bikes
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.
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.
Turbine typeface in use: CI for Nick Stanztechnik
Nick Stanztechnik
The design of a Corporate Identity for Nick Stanztechnik, an established provider of sheet metal, plastic, metal and stone processing, using Turbine.