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Change Serif

Change Serif

by Machalski
Individual Styles from $39.00 USD
Complete family of 11 fonts: $290.00 USD
Change Serif Font Family was designed by Mateusz Machalski and published by Machalski. Change Serif contains 11 styles and family package options.

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About Change Serif Font Family


Change Serif is a typeface family designed as a part of Mateusz Machalski's PhD project, carried out in 2015-2021. The main goal was to create a typeface allowing for the typesetting of complex humanistic texts, containing many historical letterforms. The starting point was the preparation of most of the glyphs provided in unicode for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. From the formal point of view, the Change family is based on Renaissance proportions with contemporary details. Classic upright version is paired with expressive and calligraphic italics, inspired by the works of Robert Granjon.

Each of the styles contains about 4,000 characters, allowing for a broad range of typesetting capabilities – multiscript publications, historical translations, and texts transcription. The crucial aspect was to treat all scripts equally. All OpenType features, such as swashes, final forms, decorative ligatures, can be found in Latin, Cyrillic and also Greek. The name of the typeface refers to the design process in which there are constant changes and corrections. On the other hand, it means to convey how this project influenced my perception of typography and allowed me to embrace it as a medium of artistic expression. Due to its similar proportions, Change works perfectly with the Gaultier typeface.

Designers: Mateusz Machalski

Publisher: Machalski

Foundry: Machalski

Design Owner: Machalski

MyFonts debut: Mar 3, 2021

Change Serif

About Machalski

Dr hab. Mateusz Machalski – B. 1989; studied at the Faculty of Graphic arts in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2009–2014) completed with Rector's distinction. He works at the Faculty of Graphics in the Studio of Multimedia Artistic Creation. Selected as the Designer of the Year 2019 in the Polish Graphic Awards. Winner of the scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists. Five-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture. Winner of the "Młoda Polska" scholarship of the National Center for Culture. Member of the board of the Association of Applied Graphic Designers. Member of the program board of the International Poster Biennale. Member of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale). Winner of the Best of Design 2018 award - Klub Twórców Reklamy. Featured as "Ascender 2018" by Type Directors Club New York. He received the "Animator 2020" award in the DESIGN ALIVE competition. Decorated by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Medal of the Centenary of Regained Independence.Artistic director of "newonce.paper" and "Warsawholic" magazines. Author of over 30 type families, numerous corporate and multi-script typefaces and over 100 visual identifications of companies, institutions and events. Team leader in revival project "BRYGADA 1918" which premiered at the Presidential Palace with the participation of the President. Author of the intergenerational Bona Nova project carried out together with Andrzej Heidrich – the designer of Polish banknotes. Co-founder of the BORUTTA creative group, RESPECT WWA foundation. Author of numerous texts and articles about graphic design, visual culture and typography. Co-author of the TYPOTEKA.PL – Polish Typography Index and numerous exhibitions and cultural events. Parallel to design work, he conducts research projects, workshops and lectures in Poland and abroad.

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