Finest Fonts for Brands and People. ❡ Latest release: Sukoon™
Last month, our friend, former mentor and co-designer of the Case Typeface Collection, Erik Spiekermann received the revered and highly coveted Gutenberg Prize, awarded by the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz.
This year’s jury remarked on Erik’s pioneering and innovative approach to his work and the wealth of inspiration that he provides to new generations of type designers.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Erik!
Hot on the heals of the recent wins for Tausend (Merit Honor in the Hiiiibrand Design Awards 2025 and 2026 ADC Awards), we are overjoyed to see Tausend Collection shortlisted (‘Auszeichnung’) in the Art Directors Club (ADC) Competition 2026 in the Typography and Type Design category. This means the typeface is among the 575 winners of this year’s competition, selected from 8,000 entries. If our calculations are correct, that means Tausend is among the top 7%.
Huge congratulations again, Christoph and Gabriel.
Try Tausend: https://fontwerk.com/fonts/tausend-collection
FONTS IN USE: NIKOLAI FOR GRŌA
Whilst studying typography, Jana Heinz developed the branding for a fictional mental health foundation for young people, GRŌA.
As the corporate typeface for the branding, Jana chose Nikolai. It is complemented by the sans-serif New Reason, which mostly appears in capital texts. Nikolai not only carries the logo, but also characterizes the entire advertising communication as well as the editorial design of the foundation brochure.
With its expressive italics, strong contrasts and carefully balanced proportions, Nikolai gives the visual appearance an unmistakable voice: elegant, yet lively and approachable.
The branding won a Junior Corporate Design Prize after it was published.
Full case: https://fontwerk.com/en/text/groa-stiftung-nikolai
CASE STUDY: THREE CUSTOM FONTS FOR ONE OF GERMANY’S LARGEST INSURANCE COMPANIES
We are so proud of this project and deeply inspired by the exceptionally great collaboration. When a client embodies its brand values as R+V does, translating them into design criteria comes easily.
Not only is it the biggest custom job we’ve done to date, it’s also our most detailed case study, giving you an insider insight to initial sketches, iterations and an exclusive behind-the-scenes peek as to how this type of collaboration works:
Much of the work we do, goes on behind closed doors and requires phenomenal amounts of blood, sweat and ink, so there is something really rather special, when we hear good award news about one of our typefaces. So we are absolutely over the moon to celebrate not one, but two, recent notable awards and mentions for Tausend by Christoph Koeberlin (@koeberlin@mastodon.green) and Gabriel Richter.
Tausend was awarded a Merit in the Hiiibrand Awards 2025, in the Professional Typography Category for Latin Type Design and it scored a Merit Honor in the 2026 ADC Typography Awards, in the category Typography/Lettering.
Try Tausend: https://fontwerk.com/fonts/tausend-collection
FONTS IN USE: Klaus Richter’s photographic documentary “Yamakasa” takes a look behind the scenes of the spectacular Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival.
Throughout the book, the typeface Tausend, designed by Christoph Koeberlin and Gabriel Richter plays a central role. Tausend’s compactness and slightly slanted ends correspond strongly with the structure of Japanese kanji and their dynamic strokes. Tightly spaced letters create a feeling of density and cohesion, as exemplified by the groups of men carrying their palanquin. Combined with the Japanese font Hiragino Sans, this typographic combo creates a captivating typographic dialogue, without striking effects or cultural simplifications.
Look inside the book: https://fontwerk.com/text/yamakasa-tausend
Behind the Scenes of the Neue DIN Video: https://fontwerk.com/en/text/behind-the-scenes-of-the-neue-din-video
Sukoon is typography as sensation.
It arose from a moment of silence and aims to send this moment to as many corners of the world as possible. Not as ornamentation, but as expression. Not only as craftsmanship, but also as art. If you look closely, you may sense a little of the clarity, beauty and tranquility from which it was born. Sukoon is @yanone@typo.social’s third Arabic type design and his most important one personally. But the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek parts also thrive on a friendliness, lightness, and, not least, legibility.
Our newest typeface Sukoon can be characterized as a dynamic sans serif font. Thanks to its more open and clearly distinguishable letterforms, compared to static and geometric sans serif fonts, and its humanistic contrast axis, this style is considered the most legible in the sans serif genre, making it increasingly important in light of growing demands for accessibility.
Nevertheless, the letters M, g, y and j stand out from the standard set of shapes in this type category. The slightly low-hanging waist and the different ratio of large ascenders to small descenders are also distinctive features. These are elements that designer Yanone drew from the concept of silence and which are crucial to the calm and clear effect of the design.
A single letter, drawn during a moment of inner peace. No concept, no goal, just tranquility. The designer and artist Jan Gerner, known as @yanone@typo.social describes the state of deep relaxation and mental clarity he experienced in a remote forest cabin as almost sacred. In that moment, he had not created a form, but found it. It wasn’t a finished idea or full alphabet — just a feeling that would grow into a special typeface over the next ten years. #ad
Meet Sukoon: https://fontwerk.com/fonts/sukoon
Read the story: https://fontwerk.com/text/sukoon
It always makes us smile when brands pair two of our typefaces together. So we were excited to see the killer combo of Nice Micro and Pangea take center stage for the Swiss premium swimwear brand, Noah*s Ocean.
Full case: https://fontwerk.com/en/text/noahs-ocean-pangea-and-nice-micro
Nice: https://fontwerk.com/en/fonts/nice-collection
Since some people are considering switching search engines in light of recent events, we recommend #DuckDuckGo – and not just because of the fonts…
25% OFF FOR NONPROFITS, CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ARTISTS
In our quest to ensure that we meet the needs of all our customers and also support and give back to those who want to make the world a better place, we’re introducing a 25% discount for all registered nonprofit organizations, cultural institutions (e.g., museums, galleries, publishers, festivals, libraries), and artists.
If you are involved in charitable or cultural activities or represent a recognized institution and need the fonts for this purpose, just activate the Cultural and Nonprofit Discount 25% button in the Discounts (Education, Culture) drop-down menu before selecting the product. This will show you the reduced net prices.
Shortly after the TDC Award, Tausend has already received another accolade from the United States: the typeface family won a Merit at the Art Directors Club 105th Annual Awards. So much recognition all at once — wonderful! Thank you to the jury.
#ADCAwards #ArtDirectorsClub #TheOneClub
https://www.oneclub.org/awards/adcawards/-award/62854/tausend/
We are excited that our Tausend typeface family – designed by @koeberlin@mastodon.green and Gabriel Richter) is among this year’s finalists for the prestigious TDC Awards. For the first time, the Type-High Award will be divided into Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Merit categories (the awards ceremony is in July). We’ll have to wait and see which one we win. In any case, we’re already very happy about the recognition.
While many typefaces become ubiquitous and instantly recognizable, the actual human faces and names behind them often remain hidden. So we thought we would take this opportunity to shine a little spotlight on the designers who have joined the Neue DIN family.
Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy (Олександр Пархомовский)
https://fontwerk.com/designers/oleksandr-parkhomovskyy
Irene Vlachou (Ειρήνη Βλάχου)
https://fontwerk.com/designers/irene-vlachou
Boom Promphan Suksumek (พร้อมพรรณ ศุขสุเมฆ)
https://fontwerk.com/designers/boom-promphan-suksumek
Thanks for your amazing work!
Please consider working with them as they are not just great designers but also very nice human beings.
Neue DIN now speaks Thai, Cyrillic, Greek
Back in January, we welcomed Italics and Retalics to Neue DIN. With huge thanks to Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy 🇺🇦 (with support from Eugene Yukechev 🇷🇺), Irene Vlachou 🇬🇷, and Boom Promphan Suksumek 🇹🇭, we’ve just expanded the typeface to include three brand new alphabets: Cyrillic, Greek, and — for the first time in a DIN typeface — Thai (in the Loopless variant). All three scripts support the whopping 243 static fonts, or for those who prefer a more manageable approach, the single variable font also supports the new languages.
https://fontwerk.com/fonts/neue-din
#Fontwerk #NeueDIN #GreekFonts #CyrillicFonts #ThaiFonts #ad
FONTS IN USE: Lonely Planet books have long been known as every backpacker’s most coveted and well-loved bible. As the world’s largest provider of independent travel and language guides, they publish over 650 titles with a total print run of around 55 million copies.
Back in 2022, they commissioned Garrett Elizabeth Office to redesign and revamp the brand and come up with a brand new visual design for both print and online.
Pangea was chosen as their corporate typeface and now graces the pages of all their printed guides and across their city maps. We have compiled this use case, which is also very special to us, into the most comprehensive one in our gallery to date.
For any brand, the question of visual identity is a big one and when it comes to ensuring your visibility, authenticity and being able to communicate your values, fonts play a huge, yet very often overlooked role. In our latest deep-dive essay, we explore that age-old question of ‘Why license a font at all?’ (vs. choosing a free font for example).
Pangea by Christoph @koeberlin@mastodon.green already includes characters for all (!) Latin languages as well as Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew. With the help of Bangkok-born designer @boom@typo.social Promphan Suksumek, the sixth alphabet is now being added: Thai.
Boom and Christoph designed a Loopless version (the more expressive Pangea) which is better suited for display sizes, short texts, and expressive applications, as well as a Looped, (the more reader-friendly Pangea Text) which is better for body text and longer reading.
The crowning glory of this stringent decision: the variable font switches between these styles via the optical size axis.
Try Pangea Thai and all its other 589 languages: https://fontwerk.com/fonts/pangea-collection
We’re delighted to announce that Pangea #Hebrew and #Arabic are coming very soon! Currently in the very capable hands of Azza Alameddine, who’s working on the Arabic and Fontef’s Yanek Iontef and Daniel Grumer who are working on the Hebrew, they will be available in a few weeks.
Fancy trying the beta fonts? Send us an email.