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Typography in the Museum: How We Developed the Corporate Typeface for the Hermitage

The TypeType team, with the support of the Mantera Group, has created a new font family for the State Hermitage Museum—the Hermitage Type Family. The typeface will be used across all of the Hermitage’s digital content; you can already see it on the website and the updated launch page of the mobile version. And this is just the beginning of a major overhaul of the museum’s digital identity, in which the new font will play a pivotal role.

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Our Golden Font: How We Crafted the Ideal Neo-Grotesque TT Neoris

TT Neoris is a TypeType team font released in 2023. Its name is derived from two words: «neo,» which means «new,» and «rise.» We’ve been working meticulously on it for two and a half years. At the moment, TT Neoris is the most ambitious project of the studio: our goal was to create the ideal Neo-Grotesque that would mark a new chapter in the history of typography and become a bestseller.

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15 Best Modern Sans Serif Fonts for Your Design in 2026

Most modern brands choose sans serifs fonts as their corporate font. Such fonts began to gain popularity almost a century ago, but still remain at their peak. Let’s find out what is so attractive about these fonts and have a look at a selection of the best sans serifs from the TypeType collection.

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IP Protection as an Art: TypeType’s Flexible Licensing Control Strategy

Drawing on their own experience, the specialists at TypeType explain how type foundries and designers can stop unlicensed use of their products and get additional revenue while avoiding reputational risk. In TypeType’s professional experience the popularity of a typeface is linked to the fact that it will be more likely used without an appropriate license—despite the fact that developing a single family can take years of meticulous work. We covered how font licensing works in detail here.

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Font Research: An Expert Approach to Brand Typography

Among TypeType Studio’s services, we offer typeface system research. Why do brands need such research, and how does it help them develop? How is it conducted? What does the research include, and how are the results interpreted? We answer these questions and show how it works in practice using the financial segment as an example.

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TypeType’s Year in Review: Looking Back at 2025

2025 was an incredibly productive year for TypeType: we released 7 new fonts, updated 14 typefaces, and added Arabic language support to two of our bestsellers. In addition, we won awards in type design competitions, explored new platforms, improved our website, wrote about type design in our blog, gave lectures, met with you at webinars, and created joint projects with friends and partners.

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Proxima Nova Font: Alternatives, Pairings, and the Secrets of Its Popularity

Proxima Nova is one of the most recognizable sans-serif fonts in modern design. In this article, we’ll explore the history of the Proxima Nova font family, its graphic characteristics and composition, figure out what fonts go with Proxima Nova, what its best alternatives are, and what license you need to use it.

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The Perfect Moment Is Now: Launching Our Creative Lab, TT Labs

We spent a lot of time thinking about how to find a place for creative freedom within this system, how to set aside time for small passion projects, how to step outside our usual boundaries, and how to give spontaneity a chance. And we realized that the perfect moment will never come unless you take the first step. So we took it—and that’s how the TT Labs creative laboratory was born. Here’s the story from the beginning!

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A Font with a Wide Reach: A Special Project for SHIFTBRAIN’s 20th Anniversary

In 2023, the Japanese marketing agency SHIFTBRAIN launched an interactive website dedicated to the company’s 20th anniversary. For this project, the TypeType team developed a unique variable font capable of stretching to extreme horizontal widths. As a foundation, we used the bestseller TT Norms® Pro, which was already the company’s corporate typeface—you can see it on the main SHIFTBRAIN website.

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Pangrams Explained: Meaning, Types, Usage and Complete List of Examples

If you’re interested in design, you’ve almost certainly come across the famous sentence about the quick brown fox and the lazy dog. Or perhaps one about a jived fox nymph and a quick waltz. These are pangrams—sentences that contain all the letters of the alphabet. In this article, we’ll provide a more detailed pangram definition, explain why these phrases are so important, and provide a list of the most popular pangrams in English.

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Bold Fonts: How to Use Them in Design

Font weight is a crucial characteristic that directly impacts the perception of an entire design. In this article, we’ll explore where and how to apply bold fonts, the different types that exist, and look at some examples of such fonts from the TypeType collection.

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What Are Bullet Points and How to Use Them?

In this article, we will break down what are bullet points, when to use bullet points effectively, how to format them correctly, and how to quickly insert bullet points using a shortcut key in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe InDesign. At the same time, we will show bullet points examples and explain why a list with bullet points is a fully-fledged tool for working with text.

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