Posted In: Lectures
Sibylle Hagmann was invited to lecture for SGD (Swiss Graphic Designers), a professional association in Switzerland. The lecture, held in beautiful Solothurn, reflected on the development of Axia, the font family in use by SGD for their very own branding.
Posted In: Font Release
Marlide Display is a flamboyant and vibrant typeface classified around the groups of Romain Elzevir and Latins with elegant roundly bracketed serifs and a considerable thick to thin contrast. A type which shines in large letter sizes and that makes text stand out prominently while conveying messages for print and screen alike.
Posted In: Publications
Barbara Lüth features Odile and Elido in her book Unsichtbar published by August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich. The question of “Where are the women type designers”? is the motivation behind this project. Work of 20 women type designers are included among interviews, and their contributions to the discipline.
Posted In: Font Release
Utile Narrow consists of seven Roman styles and extends the Utile collection with designs narrower than its normal-width counterpart. With a multipurpose aim in mind the type is suitable in applications such as titles, subheads, and data tables, as well as readable passages of text of various length. The two Utile widths, normal and narrow, work effortlessly together and include the same extended Latin character set.
Posted In: Publications
Support Independent Type showcases the culture of type specimens produced by unfettered type foundries and designers. The book, created by Marian Misiak, emphasizes the effort that goes into promoting fonts and presents over 400 type labels, including Kontour and Riso-printed specimens for the Kopius and Utile type families.
Posted In: Interviews
Moore College of Art & Design has a new visual identity with the typeface family Utile, its primary typographic element at its core. An interview conducted by Samantha Weinraub, leading to a short article and published in the Moore Magazine Fall issue, explores Q&As with the designer behind Moore’s new font.
Posted In: Reviews
Florian Hardwig reviews recent typeface additions on Identifont’s Blog. In this issue of August 2019, read about his typographic analysis of Niko by Ludwig Übele, Standard by Benoît Bodhuin, and Utile and Utile Display.
Posted In: Interviews
In conversation with Sébastien Morlighem for Fontstand, in an interview titled Kontour: An Aura of One’s Own, Sibylle Hagmann dives deeper into some thoughts on type.