Just Your Type

Luckily, Johanna rescued some physical letters from the Grazer Schauspielhaus installed around the ’60s. These inspired us to design a rocking R and kicking K. Moreover we recycled a few strong details that give a historical feeling like an additional terminal of the Uppercase U or the sloped roof A that has a distinct shape. With this Ensemble Mono manages to stand out and, with just one cut, to play across the house with all its media representing different voices. The new typeface with the subtle reference to the former signage with old copper letters is now reborn and welcomes visitors at the entry of the theatre.

Sculpting the past into the present? The truth is, this was not the brief;) We were asked to make an uppercase mono typeface. The designers from Colourborative started to design some shapes of their own with more straight lines than you can imagine. Actually, it would have been easy to just fill the first brief and paste some straights in the glyphs set and call it a font. BUT obviously, we started a dialogue followed by many. We found out that there is a history on which we could build. To fit the layouts, we still ended up with an uppercase Mono that has a lot of funky characters between all the natural straights. Moreover we were happy to be asked for more warmth that we added through roundings inside the letterforms captured from the physical letters.