Just Your Type

Hello,
we are Just
Your Type!

Studio for Type and

Corporate Design

We turn brands into unique characters.

Just Your Type is a Munich-based design studio, founded in 2021 by Mona Franz and Sebastian Berbig. Together, they specialize in type design and corporate design. Convinced that typefaces are the magic key to outstanding branding, they combine craft and vision to create visual identities of every color on the emotional spectrum.

Our story

Our creative partnership started at one of the most renowned corporate design agencies in Munich. Through our joint work in the core team of Lufthansa Redesign in 2017, a productive collaboration was formed. We quickly found our own creative workflow and developed a close friendship.
After following separate paths to grow and expand our horizons, we finally realized the idea of founding our own studio. We bring different talents and skills that complement each other perfectly.
Timon & Pumbaa, Gin & Tonic, Doc Brown & Marty McFly, and The White Stripes – Sebastian & Mona are a fantastic creative duo. Long story short, we’ve got over 20 years of combined experience working with a variety of clients and projects of all shapes and sizes.
While Mona creates expressive values using her path tool in (letter-)forms of black and white, Sebastian paints a colorful and picture-driven brand vision. These two perspectives bring a holistic approach to projects.
At Just Your Type’s core lies a passion for exploring new typefaces and tools, all guided by the vision of achieving exceptional corporate design outcomes, that create a good feeling.
A fresh visual identity should stand out from the competition, appeal to the right audience, and be highly recognizable based on a compelling, uniquely tailored brand story built to last.
The flexibility of a small, personal team that can rely on its large network when needed is a valuable strength. We enjoy splitting up the game: Working with colleagues from previous projects as well as with new experts brings fresh dynamics into the work process, unleashes synergies, and combines expertise from different fields.

two minds are

better than one

Mona

Specialist for type design, typography, logo design, icons, brand illustrations

Mona juggles type and corporate design while keeping her dance moves as smooth as vegan butter.

Her recently-designed typefaces can be found at the TypeMates font library. In 2018, she received a Master’s degree of TypeMedia from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Mona has been teaching type design at Hochschule München since 2021.

About Mona

Contact

TypeTalks
Organizing speakers for Hochschule München with Prof. Xuyen Dam

DesignStarter
Organizing speakers for Typografische Gesellschaft München with Katharina Seidl

Workshops
TypoWalks and typographic workshops

TypeStammtisch Munich – you are a type designer living in or around Munich? Join our small group – just contact me!

Side projects

since 2021
Hochschule München (MUNICH)
Lecturer for Type Design and Corporate Design

2013–2016
Martin et Karczinski (MUNICH)
Corporate Design and Type Design

2012–2013
Meta Design (BERLIN)
Corporate Design and Strategy

FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
TypeMates (HAMBURG/MUNICH), Martin et Karczinski (MUNICH), hw.design (MUNICH), Blackspace (MUNICH), Bold Monday (The Hague), Saatchi & Saatchi (MUNICH)

Sebastian

Specialized in typography, color theory, webdesign, photography, imagery and brand systems

Sebastian makes it look so easy – designing even complex brand architectures in a user-friendly and recognizable way all while checking out the latest ice cream parlor in town.

He began his career in advertising, working at Jung von Matt and Serviceplan before focusing on corporate design at Martin et Karczinski and Zeichen & Wunder.

Sebastian has over a decade of experience with clients like Audi, Lufthansa, Bosch, Amnesty International, Mercedes-Benz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Landeshauptstadt München.

About Sebastian

Contact

2020–2021
Zeichen & Wunder (Munich)
Corporate Design

2012–2019
Martin et Karczinski (Munich)
Corporate Design

2010
Jung von Matt (Hamburg)
Advertising

FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
hw.design (Munich), Saatchi & Saatchi (Munich), Serviceplan (Munich), Zeichen & Wunder (Munich)

We turn brands into unique characters.

Our story

Our creative partnership started at one of the most renowned corporate design agencies in Munich. Through our joint work in the core team of Lufthansa Redesign in 2017, a productive collaboration was formed. We quickly found our own creative workflow and developed a close friendship.
After following separate paths to grow and expand our horizons, we finally realized the idea of founding our own studio. We bring different talents and skills that complement each other perfectly.
Timon & Pumbaa, Gin & Tonic, Doc Brown & Marty McFly, and The White Stripes – Sebastian & Mona are a fantastic creative duo. Long story short, we’ve got over 20 years of combined experience working with a variety of clients and projects of all shapes and sizes.
While Mona creates expressive values using her path tool in (letter-)forms of black and white, Sebastian paints a colorful and picture-driven brand vision. These two perspectives bring a holistic approach to projects.
At Just Your Type’s core lies a passion for exploring new typefaces and tools, all guided by the vision of achieving exceptional corporate design outcomes, that create a good feeling.
A fresh visual identity should stand out from the competition, appeal to the right audience, and be highly recognizable based on a compelling, uniquely tailored brand story built to last.
The flexibility of a small, personal team that can rely on its large network when needed is a valuable strength. We enjoy splitting up the game: Working with colleagues from previous projects as well as with new experts brings fresh dynamics into the work process, unleashes synergies, and combines expertise from different fields.

two minds are

better than one

Sebastian

Specialized in typography, color theory, webdesign, photography, imagery and brand systems

Sebastian makes it look so easy – designing even complex brand architectures in a user-friendly and recognizable way all while checking out the latest ice cream parlor in town.

He began his career in advertising, working at Jung von Matt and Serviceplan before focusing on corporate design at Martin et Karczinski and Zeichen & Wunder.

Sebastian has over a decade of experience with clients like Audi, Lufthansa, Bosch, Amnesty International, Mercedes-Benz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Landeshauptstadt München.

About Sebastian

Contact

2020–2021
Zeichen & Wunder (Munich)
Corporate Design

2012–2019
Martin et Karczinski (Munich)
Corporate Design

2010
Jung von Matt (Hamburg)
Advertising

FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
hw.design (Munich), Saatchi & Saatchi (Munich), Serviceplan (Munich), Zeichen & Wunder (Munich)

Mona

Specialist for type design, typography, logo design, icons, brand illustrations

Mona juggles type and corporate design while keeping her dance moves as smooth as vegan butter.

About Mona

Contact

TypeTalks
Organizing speakers for Hochschule München with Prof. Xuyen Dam

DesignStarter
Organizing speakers for Typografische Gesellschaft München with Katharina Seidl

Workshops
TypoWalks and typographic workshops

TypeStammtisch Munich – you are a type designer living in or around Munich? Join our small group – just contact me!

Side projects

since 2021
Hochschule München (MUNICH)
Lecturer for Type Design and Corporate Design

2013–2016
Martin et Karczinski (MUNICH)
Corporate Design and Type Design

2012–2013
Meta Design (BERLIN)
Corporate Design and Strategy

FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
TypeMates (HAMBURG/MUNICH), Martin et Karczinski (MUNICH), hw.design (MUNICH), Blackspace (MUNICH), Bold Monday (The Hague), Saatchi & Saatchi (MUNICH)

We love

to design

brands

with attitude.

Every project has its own story, which brings new challenges and gives a deeper meaning to our work. We try to share deeper insight into our process, which needs time to develop and be thought through. Find a selection of projects here.

If you would like to see more, just ask for a personal introduction. We are happy to get to know you and your project. To give you a glimpse into our world, feel free to check out our Instagram channel!