Squares on a Grid

For their work in communications advertising, the design trio of Maik Ignaszak, Stefan Kisters, and Astrid Koenig was in constant need of display fonts that looked like type seen on phone menus from Motorola, Nokia, Siemens, etc. Since desktop-installable versions of these fonts weren’t commercially available, these designers made their own. The result is FF Call, a package of fonts frozen in... Read More

Lomo, PLC is a Russian optical manufacturer, whose cameras have built up an international cult following since 1992. Swiss designer Fidel Peugeot recently tapped into this phenomenon, creating an astounding series of pixel fonts for use in a variety of applications-from websites to mobile phone displays. Now available as a single family from Linotype, Lomo's versatility extends itself across 37... Read More

Based on a modular system, FF Ticket recreates the look of thermal printer type as found on tickets, itineraries, luggage tags, forms, etc.

FF Nelio is a response to the original mobile phone culture. Bitmaps and pixels served messages in new high tech ways. But technology is to make people’s life cozy, so let’s have a cozy bitmap script font with a nostalgic touch of towel monograms.

“Typography is what brought me to graphic design,” says FF Karo designer Martin L’Allier. “I played with typefaces before exploring the world of images.” In an introductory type design course offered during his second year of college, he designed the first version of FF Karo (then called Wisigoth and Ostrogoth). A quote from Matthew Carter was the inspiration for L’Allier’s project: “Black... Read More