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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.
The typeface McQueen Grotesk forms the typographic basis of the redesign of Arcomed, a leading developer in the field of infusion technology
Arcomed
McQueen Grotesk ensures a light, unmistakable appearance both in printed material and on the website of the Swiss Company Arcomed.
The sans-serif typeface Pangea in use for the visual identity of the Australian environmental company Powerhouse
Powerhouse
Melbourne-based design studio Side By Side chose Pangea for the visual identity of the Australian environmental company Powerhouse.
The typeface Nice Headline in use for the brand new design of the vegan skin care products from 4 People Who Care
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.
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.
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 Nikolai in use for KARAK, an Austrian manufacturer of traditional Raku ceramic tiles.
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.
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 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.
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: 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 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.
Nikolai typeface in use for Schaumberg Apple Juice
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.