Custom fonts

Typotheque provides high-quality custom type solutions for a variety of languages and applications. We provide tailor-made solutions for clients of all sizes, enhancing brands, supporting visual identities, providing localisation and creation of special language sets, customization, and typographic consultation.

Despite the large number of available fonts today, not every font performs well in every situation. Custom typefaces communicate the character of an organisation while simplifying the process of exchanging information. Custom fonts contribute to a unique, consistent, highly recognizable brand identity both inside and outside of an organization.

Custom fonts may be modified from existing retail fonts (extending the character sets, modifying the design of characters), or entirely new fonts developed from scratch. With custom type we offer custom licensing arrangements of the fonts as well. This may include exclusive (not sold to anyone else) or non-exclusive licenses, licenses for third parties, or multiple-user licenses.

Who needs a custom font?

• — Advertising and Design agencies for branding and corporate identities
• — Hardware and software companies for font support in their products
• — Newspapers and Publications undergoing a redesign

Case studies

Custom Type Design

For the complete redesign of Dwell, an American magazine devoted to modern architecture and design, Typotheque was commissioned to create a special monospaced version of Greta Text for photo captions in very small sizes.

American magazine Dwell is using the retail version of Greta Text for the body text, and a custom version of Greta Mono for captions

Type Family Extension

El Correo, the leading daily newspaper in northern Spain, commissioned Typotheque to create a new lighter weight of Brioni for their redesign in 2009. After a series of press tests involving five potential variants, Brioni Extra Light was created and implemented as the main body typeface.

Press test of Spanish newspaper El Correo with various custom weight variants of Brioni

German Chess publisher Schachzentrale Rattmann commissioned Typotheque to develop a set of chess symbols which match the proportions of Fedra typefaces. Both Fedra Sans and Serif A were used.

Custom chess symbols matching the proportions of Fedra Serif

Bibliothèque nationale de France adopted the Fedra typeface family because of its versatility, advanced typographic features, and extensive language support. For its specialised editions BnF commissioned Typotheque to extend all Fedra fonts to support Sanskrit transliteration.

Special glyphs added to Fedra fonts to support Sanskrit transliteration

Font Modifications

As part of the new visual identity of Czech Railways, a customised version of Fedra Sans (ČD Fedra) has been created. ČD Fedra has been implemented on the trains and in the orientation system in the train stations.

Czech Railways uses a customised version of Fedra Sans