Foundry Stories: Blaze Type.

Playtype is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was born out of founder Jonas Hecksher’s graphic design practice. In this video, members of their design team share insights into their process and what guides a typeface project: intended purpose and deadlines!

Matteson Typographics is a Boulder, Colorado USA studio run by Steve Matteson. This video shares how music, nature, mechanical drawing, and letterpress printing have inspired him as an artist and type designer.

Cadson Demak was founded 25 years ago, and is a leading voice in type design in Bangkok, Thailand. They share how they think about type in relation to the world around them, and why they believe type designers are trend setters.

It’s that time again. You’re at your desk, and it’s time to begin your new design project. First, you have to choose a font. To begin, you scroll through a list of fonts online and find yourself bombarded by the multitude of options. The number of fonts available is overwhelming. After several hours of researching, you finally find one type family you like, but you’re not sure how it will translate to mobile view. You jump to another option, but wonder if the font style will align with your target consumer.

If you’re here, you likely use, appreciate, and maybe even love type. You might have a favorite (or least favorite) font. Like any good piece of art, each font has an origin, a story, and a team of passionate creators that brought it to life. How much do you know about the designers and creators of those letterforms? Hear from some of our favorite designers about how they got started, what inspires their work, and how Monotype helps deliver their designs to your screens.