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Fonts in use: The eccentric typeface McQueen for Psychotherapist Katrin Terwiel’s brand design
Katrin Terwiel
With McQueen, Cigarsauerkraut’s art director Enrico Kunze found the perfect match for Psychotherapist Katrin Terwiel’s vision.
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: 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: 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.
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.
Fonts in Use: The typeface Case Micro for the Documentary Film ‘The Map of Beauty’ by Marco Kugel (Still)
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.
Fonts in Use: McQueen Display for the corporate design of Egna
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.
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.
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.
Nice – Fictitious poster design
Nice
Clarity × Liveliness × Legibility
West typeface – Specimen
West
A compelling mix of conciseness and pragmatism
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.