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At Home With Lukas Schneider

August 12, 2014 by
FontShop Team
FontShop Team

We recently popped over to Frankfurt am Main to pay a visit to FF Utility designer Lukas Schneider for our latest installment of the ‘At Home With’ series.


From the images of Lukas in his home it is clear to see how his lifestyle transcends into his type design. Contemporary, creative and clear are descriptions that can be applied to both Schneider’s typeface and home, showing that in this case life truly reflects art!

Type Essays

FF Franziska For Bündner Tagblatt

The story of FF Franziska’s creation and how it was adopted for the redesign of the Bündner Tagblatt

July 18, 2014 by
Yves Peters
Yves Peters

Type is a crucial element in the branding of a newspaper. It defines the atmosphere of the publication, its visual style. It can make the text sound a tad more authoritative, a little friendlier, a smidgen more serious. And if the newspaper is set in one single type family for the entire typographic palette from headlines to the small print, the type effectively becomes its voice. Even before it was released under the FontFont banner, Hamburg-based information designers Christian Hruschka and Stefan Semrau used Jakob Runge’s Franziska for the new Bündner Tagblatt. The modern, fresh layout won the European Newspaper Award 2013 in the category of Typography. I interviewed Jakob Runge about the creation of his typeface, and twotype design’s Christian Hruschka about its application in the award-winning redesign of the newspaper. All images are from the development of the type family.

Don’t Seek. Discover!

July 07, 2014 by
FontShop Team
FontShop Team

Still haven’t found that perfect font yet? Let our new Discovery features inspire you with a new array of visually related suggestions.

We all know how hard it can be to find just the right font. Often you may have an idea of how a typeface looks, but you don’t know its name. Or you’ve found something in the right vein, but it doesn’t quite hit the mark. So over the last few weeks, we’ve addressed the age-old problem of visually related searches, and came up with a whole array of helpful Discovery solutions that help you find inspiration while you browse.

World Cup Typography: Eduardo Manso

July 03, 2014 by
Yves Peters
Yves Peters

In the run-up to the quarter finals between Argentina and Belgium in the FIFA World Cup this Saturday, I conducted an interview with Eduardo Manso. Eduardo designed the custom face used for all the Puma national teams.

Gewone Letters – Gerrit’s Early Models

June 26, 2014 by
Yves Peters
Yves Peters

One of the winners at the recent European Design Awards was “Gewone Letters – Gerrit’s Early Models” which won Bronze in the category Self-Initiated Projects. The lovely limited edition publication by Geen Bitter uses the equally lovely FF Dora, designed by Slávka Pauliková and released through FontFont last year.