Journal

Primary Works developed the rebranding for Atticus, a rapidly growing Australian software company that helps professionals review and verify important documents.
Having outgrown their initial brand, they came to us with a need for a new look and feel…

When we customized Newson for General Logistics Systems it became clear that the typeface would need a general update.
For this update, which is available from now on, several design details have been reworked and adjustments of the vertical metrics …

GLS is one of the leading parcel delivery services in Europe. The logistics company recently modernized its corporate design, and introduced a new logo alongside refreshed colors. Revolver Type Foundry provided the custom font solution to go with the…

Our neo-grotesk typeface family Ritual was recently featured in German design magazine Page and Lukas answered some questions about type specimens.

1. Wann fängst du an, dir Gedanken über die Schriftmuster zu machen? Schon während der Entwicklu…

Le Rosart was awarded with a “Certificate of Typographic Excellence” by the Type Directors Club, New York. The typeface will be included in the Annual of the Type Directors Club, The World’s Best Typography, and will be shown in exhibitions tha…

In 2019 the award-winning global creative agency Dragon Rouge created a new identity and for the polish logistics operator InPost.
Our sans-serif typeface family Dinamit was used widely used in various media to support the bold and unconventional vis…

Support Independent Type is a book about the new culture of type specimens, their impact on design and typographic culture at large. It’s a manifesto for independent type foundries showcasing their work in an effort to promote freshly designed font…

The Ingolstadt-based company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Audi AG and develops solutions for the automotive future. PSW uses Newson throughout their visual identity. The sans serif appears in all-lowercase letters for the wordmark. In the corporat…

Lukas Schneider is guest lecturer at the Expert class Type design since 2019.
He is also an alumnus of the Plantin Institute, Antwerp, Belgium where he achieved the highest distinction for his diploma on the Expert class Type Design under the tutelag…

Our long term type design project Le Rosart was recently featured in German design magazine Page.

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Hundreds of hours of in-depth research, meticulous drawing, discussion, testing, and refining, ultimately resulting in a comprehensive series of cutting-edge digital revivals: the Rosart Project. This website describes the processes involved and sho…

Lukas Schneider was interviewed and portrayed for German watch manufacturer MeisterSinger.
There are around half a million typefaces. Some of them we see constantly, others probably never.
But what are the differences between them? Lukas answers some…

We added a new section to our website which features some of our bespoke typefaces. The Revolver Type Foundry has a varied experience in custom type solutions. Our services range from modifications made to existing fonts to designing completely new f…

Some of our typefaces are used in the publication:
Surfing Bauhaus—Hessen + Typography
Links, Quotes, References, Data, Texts, and more
Every day, new artifacts related to the Bauhaus surface online, and with the 100th anniversary of the school, th…

Revolver Type Foundry typefaces featured in The Yearbook of Type. The book is a practical guide that helps users navigate the diverse, ocean-like, typographical landscape in order to choose a font that is right for them, and one that fits their proje…

We were commissioned by the prestigious Dutch Type Library to developed a revival of the types cut by 16th century punchcutter Hendrik van den Keere and extend the characterset of a typeface designed by the famous type designer Matthew Carter.
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Starting out from a custom font created in a single weight for small-sized text on supermarket price tags, the letterforms were revised and altered completely, arriving at a new and original design. The proportions have been adjusted to be usable for…

In October 2017, the german design magazine PAGE published an article about the development of two of our typefaces, Dinamit and Mondial. The article explains the design process and gives detailed background information.

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Our typeface Damien Display in use on a Billboard campaign for All Classical, a non-commercial music radio, in Portland, Oregon. Art directed and designed by Studio Jelly, Portland. Team: Alex Harris, Mia Nolting, Kathleen Lane, Caleb Jensen

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This typeface is a custom version of FF Utility, designed by Lukas Schneider. The original design grew out of Lukas Schneider’s graduate thesis project, a small family of typefaces named Gazoline in 2003, whilst he was studying at the Hochschule fu…

Development of a typeface for the price labels in the stores of the Plus Trading Company.
The project was designed in close cooperation with Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen and Prof. Ulysses Voelker of the Fachhochschule Mainz, Germany.
The typeface, whi…

Damien Text is used by online magazine NZZ Bellevue, the lifestyle magazine for Switzerland.
In 2016 Edenspiekermann designed a new platform for NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), bringing together three print-only publications (Z, NZZ am Sonntag, and Stil…

The book design by Pixelgarten is the first official use of the Damien Font Family, actually before it was officially released. Damien started life in the Type and Media program at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK) in The Hague. The family spans both…

Besides from designing typefaces the Revolver Type Foundry works on lettering, calligraphy and typographic compositions, which are used for logos or mastheads for example.
Here you can find a small selection of self initiated and commissioned projec…

In the practice of the present-day type designer there is quite some emphasis on technical matters. Actually, this emphasis was also already the case more than 500 years ago. For the production of roman type in Renaissance Italy, Humanistic handwriti…