Post #2380401

2026-05-07 12:14 UTC

Last month was the 25 year anniversary of the legalisation of equal marriage in the Netherlands. To mark the occasion, the Dutch Central Bank and the Royal Mint have together issued a limited-run €5 coin, designed by Koos Breen (https://www.koosbreen.com) and set in MD Nichrome. I’m grateful to Koos for proactively looking for type made by LGBTQ designers based in the Netherlands, and beyond proud to have played a small role in this immensely meaningful project

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@caleb@pub.calebhearth.com 2026-05-07 14:03

@mass_driver@typo.social woah super impressive to have a typeface used on metal currency. That’s going to last decades at least. Congratulations!

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@guayabito@mastodon.cr 2026-05-07 19:01

@mass_driver@typo.social congratulations!

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@hugocarvalho@typo.social 2026-05-07 21:57

@mass_driver@typo.social awesomeeee!!!

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@cjtype@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 05:15

@mass_driver@typo.social Amazing! What a wonderful project and beautiful execution

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@eWalthert@typo.social 2026-05-08 05:53

@mass_driver@typo.social Interesting, I’ve got the exact same request from a friend in the competition for this coin. 🪙 To give her some recommendations for typefaces made by queer people in the Netherlands. (My top of the list were https://gebr.silvestri.nl for their active involvement in the AIDS crisis and queer movement then and now.) Both recently joint https://typo.social @Adrian_Silvestri_Chyle@typo.social @stefan_gebrsilvestri1960@typo.social Congratulations. The coin looks great with MD Nichrome!

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@nika@typo.social 2026-05-08 14:22

@mass_driver@typo.social Very nice. Congrats. In Poland, it’s still a shitshow cos politicians are spineless.

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