Greta Sans (Compressed, Condensed, Normal, Expanded), the complete type system for online and offline publishing. Read more about the process in the Designing Type Systems article. Animation by Addikt, Amsterdam, script by PB, special thanks to Greta Fischer.
Greta Symbol is a unique collection of thousands of useful symbols and alphanumerical characters available as icon fonts. Typotheque has done extensive research into the symbols commonly used in newspapers, magazines and online publications, assembling a collection that covers over 1,200 symbols per style. Most (more)
When I was a graphic design student in Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s, graphic design (or ‘applied graphic arts’, as it was called in those days) was a young profession in a young country. We were taught little about the history of graphic design in our own (more)
Type foundries are often involved not only creation of typefaces, but work also with technology. Typotheque has designed a number of unique tools for our website, and after asked by colleagues about availability of these tools, we decided to license some of them on Type-Applications.com. We’ve (more)
When I was studying at the Atelier national de création typographique (ANCT) in Paris in the mid 1990s, our hero was Hans Eduard Meier, the creator of Syntax. My friends and I admired his sensitive historical research and the original approach that led him to (more)
We keep seeing more and more websites using Typotheque webfonts, and it gets harder to select a representative sample. Here are three new sites that got our attention recently: Royal Jordanian airlines has chosen to use the Typotheque webfont system on their website. They have already been (more)
When I started working with type some twenty years ago I imagined a couple of dream applications for my future typefaces. I had no idea about font production, but I was already fantasising about the possible results of what was then my evening hobby. So (more)
Once upon a time, more precisely in 1995, we had the idea of presenting new fonts not just in printed specimens, but also in moving images. Peter created several movies to present some of his fonts. Here is the movie for Eureka from 1998. Now would (more)
We are pleased to present a new typeface — Julien. It’s a playful geometric display typeface loosely inspired by the early 20th century avant-garde. It is based on elementary shapes and includes multiple variants of each letter (over 1000 glyphs per style), as well as intelligent OpenType (more)
