Hansje van Halem


Dutch graphic designer Hansje van Halem (1978) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and started her own studio in Amsterdam in 2003. She creates alphabets, textures and patterns, both digitally and manually, that she applies to designs for posters, illustrations and public space art works.

Fonts 1

Wind
4 Styles

Books 3

Hansje van Halem, 4
This lavishly produced book presents Hansje van Halem’s array of commissioned, self-generated, rejected and unfinished sketches, type drawings, and experiments
Gerard Unger, life in letters
Richly illustrated book on the body of work of the Dutch type designer Gerard Unger.
Theory of Type Design
Theory of Type Design consists of 24 short chapters describing different aspects of type design, from how our eyes and brain process letterforms to their power of expression.

Posters 1

200 letters ‘a’
This limited-edition poster features 200 different hairline versions of the lowercase ‘a' superimposed on each other.

Articles 1

Notes on Designing and Producing the Typeface Wind
It is not very often that I come across type that is so unusual, so strikingly different that I can’t place it. Hansje van Halem’s Wind is one of those rare examples, so I asked her if we could publish it
Typeface stories · 8 December 2017 · English

Blogs 3

Language Expansion for Wind
Wind, a variable font for optical effects and multi-layed typography designed by Hansje van Halem now speaks Russian and Greek.
13 November 2018
Limited-edition Typographic Posters
Typotheque introduces two large typographic posters by Hansje van Halem and Just van Rossum.
5 December 2017
Wind, a Layered Typeface for Optical Illusions
A capital-only display typeface by Hansje van Halem for intricate headlines, and optical effects.
23 November 2017

Authors 1

Hansje van Halem
Dutch graphic designer Hansje van Halem (1978) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and started her own studio in Amsterdam in 2003. She creates...