Seraphs is font family that encompasses multiple typographic styles in one single system. Unlike other families with a sans and serif style, Seraphs doesn’t stop there. The family is developed as a variable font, which means that the user can interpolate between the serif styles and create many more intermediate styles. The user can combine different customized styles for highlighting a text, designing a logo and animating text using CSS font animations. What’s more, the font is delivered as a small variable WOFF2 file—where users can play with Seraphs’ countless typographic possibilities on the web without having to load big files.

Buy Seraphs on Future Fonts.



Go check out the microsite I designed for Seraphs

And if you want get free trial fonts for Seraphs, check out www.showmefonts.com




The family consists of:
- a serif with curved connections that look clean and familiar
- a wedge serif that is as sharp as a knife
- a slab serif that draws some extra attention to the serifs
- a tuscan serif style that most people associate with circus lettering
- a calligraphic serif style that resembles the writing of a calligrapher
- a humanistic sans that doesn’t hide its calligraphic roots.











Copy Credit: Wikipedia

Variable fonts have been a hot topic amongst type designers since the release of the OpenType 1.8 specification in 2016. So it was obvious to us to use this new technology as part of the visual identity of this year’s TYPO Labs conference. TYPO Labs is a three-day conference that encourages the integration of new type technologies into future digital communications.

For more info and more impressions of the identity, check out www.showmefonts.com



Together with Olli Meier we developed a flexible visual system that is technology driven and has clearly defined design rules. A system that can adjust to any format and size, ranging from a responsive website and newsletters to flyers, name tags and all kinds of printed matter.


Click here to visit the TYPO Labs website
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HOW FAR CAN WE GO? — A question that we asked ourselves continuously during the design stage became the theme of the conference. The speakers took it as a challenge to show the state of technology and how people in the field are pushing new technologies.



The strength of the visual system is in the flexible typeface that can adjust to any kind of format and size.









Special thanks to Marina Chaccur, Pablo Gamez and Norman Posselt for their photos!


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This poster was my contribution to the exhibition at the All Eyes on Type festival organized by the High on Type Team. Get a screenprinted poster from here.




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Based on my typeface Bronco, I developed a variable font with four axes and 60 masters. This is an ongoing project aimed at exploring of the possibilities of variable fonts. The most fascinating thing about variable font is that you can edit and select the text — even when it is animated.







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Dutch Alphabets is a publication from Peter Verheul and Matthieu Lommen for which I was invited to design a contribution. My alphabet is inspired by old pen plotters that used multiple lines to fill shapes.
The publication can be bought from Uitgeverij de Buitenkant.

Jazz Posters

I also used the typeface to set some posters for amalie 5, a Jazz band from Berlin.

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