IFRC

Futura designer Paul Renner blended industrial shapes with quirky details for his 1928 Plak typeface, which has been extended and updated into 60 weight family Neue Plak. Toshi Omagari and Linda Hintz have carefully interpreted the designer’s original intentions to revive this lost gem of the type world, drawing on research into the existing wood type to create a new set of widths and weights –... Read More

Work began on what would become the Between typeface with sketches of a DIN that didn’t feel quite so cold. The principle of warmth became the focus of the family, which covers three variations from subtle nuance to humanistic fluency. Built for versatility, the Between typeface’s numbered variations span eight full weights from thin to black, each complete with a companion italic.

FF Roice is a re-tooled version of the concept behind FF Engine. Both typefaces come from Dutch designer Alex Scholing. While each are contemporary sans serifs, FF Roice is the more “serious” of the two. FF Roice comes in five weights, each complete with italics. When Scholing first designed FF Engine in 1995, he had no type designing experience whatsoever. He soon learned that he could do... Read More