Type Design Blog

The story of Thorn Serif did not start as a new font release plan.
To tell you the truth, we often plan what we will release next, but for this typeface… the idea kind of came to me in a more “random” way, so to speak.

It happened like this: I was looking at photographs of some ancient coins. There are many symbols on the Roman coins, but one tiny detail grabbed my attention: around the edges of all the coins, there are tiny letters with very prominent, pointy serifs.

These serifs, as minor as they might seem at first sight, made the letters so odd that I kept on searching for more examples.

And anyone who knows me knows that I love weird letters.

DIGI started a rebrand with HelloYes and Kemistry. Our job at Type Forward was to turn the signature DIGI Arc into a legible, friendly geometric sans that works everywhere – web, apps, print, and broadcast. The result is DIGI Sans, a custom font family with six weights, matching italics, and a condensed width version.

What’s the buzz about ’36 Days of Type’ and why is it so captivating?

This blog delves into the heart of the ’36 Days of Type’ challenge, a global creative event that has become a tradition for our team at Type Forward. Read on to delve into the story with us.

You might ask yourselves, what is Oddval, and why the strange name? So, here is the long story short.