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

On the Road: How a TypeType Font Was Tested for the Atom EV Interface
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Atom is Russia’s first production electric vehicle, with its release expected very soon. This vehicle’s unique interface is a true glimpse into the future, featuring augmented reality, a head-up display projected onto the windshield (AR HUD), and even a display directly in the steering wheel (SWP). It was for these specific interfaces—the SWP and AR HUD, as well as for the mobile app—that we created (or rather, customized) a font.

Creating a font from scratch: A detailed guide and tips for choosing software
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Creating your first font is most difficult because the designer does not yet know all the details of development, does not have enough visual intuition and experience. When developing a font for the first time, you have to learn a lot in the process, transferring theoretical knowledge about type design to practice, which is always difficult.

Grow and divide: Creating a font for the G8 festival
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Creative industries festival G8 has presented its 2022 visual identity. The associations that immediately come to mind are the unity of nature and people, cell division, and organics.
The «grow and divide» principle was guiding the creation of the corporate visual identity created by a large team. The font design studio TypeType is one of the participants in the creative process of making the font and logo.

Customized version of TT Hoves for True Digital agency
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TypeType received a font customization request from True Digital Ltd, a marketing agency from Great Britain. The company emphasizes a sincere and involved approach to brand promotion. They wanted to underline their concept by adapting a font to their corporate style.

Customization of TT Hoves for the legendary brand Telefonica
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The TypeType team was approached by the Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica with a request to customize the TT Hoves font. Telefonica is one of the largest raditional and mobile phone companies in the world.

Font customization
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It often happens that existing fonts do not correspond to the needs of a certain project. But font is not a static instrument that functions only the way it was created. To convey the company’s individual style, the font can and should be adapted and customized to one’s needs that may range from simple changes like diminishing the character composition to complex design changes in all glyphs.

Converting TT Hoves Medium into an adapted TT Hoves GDTI
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Monospace, a branding agency from Germany, creates corporate identities and designs for projects. The company believes that through design it is possible to create a brand though which customer interactions will be enjoyable and long-term.

Changing glyph sizes in TT Commons™ Classic
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PluralSight has asked TypeType for trial versions of the TT Commons™ Classic and TT Interphases fonts to choose a suitable one. They were attracted by TT Commons™ Classic, but the non-standard size of glyphs made the font unsuitable for several directions.

Turning off ligatures in TT Norms® Pro
Font customization

The German marketing analytics platform Adjust has addressed TypeType with a request to customize the TT Norms® Pro font. Adjust provides services for company development all around the world.