Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

When it came to typography, Dave opted for Grenette by Colophon for headlines, Cadiz by Luzi Type for body copy, and a customised form of Spezia for the wordmark. These assets depict all manner of boats, destinations, experiences and everything in between," says Dave.

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Designspiration

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Colophon: No Cash Value — Collate #colophon #serif #sans #benjamin #value #critton

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Design Week

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Anak has worked with type foundry Colophon on a new typeface Mandai Value Serif. Colophon’s Value Serif was the inspiration thanks to its warmth and clarity, they explain. According to Chua and Tan, the typeface needed to suit many needs – from corporate governance to a children’s book.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Called One Night Sans, the new typeface underpins the rebrand, which includes a logo refresh and a more inclusive approach to photography.

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Designspiration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Colophon - Aperçu #font #typeface

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Design Week

AUGUST 21, 2020

Perhaps the most prominent part of the new identity is the mermaid emblem, which is used in a range of lock-ups including the colophon seen on all book spines. “Future-facing” In order to maintain a “future-facing” identity, a modern colour palette was picked to balance with the traditional illustrated colophon.

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Mindsparkle Mag

APRIL 4, 2023

It features a new logotype and typeface, using Quadraat, a classic and delicate highcontrast serif typeface designed by Fred Smeijers, paired with Relative, a wellproportioned, geometric sansserif typeface designed by UKbased type foundry Colophon. The post Spicer Warin Brand Identity appeared first on Mindsparkle Mag.

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Creative Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The refresh also includes a new bespoke type family, Cadillac Gothic, which was developed with Colophon. Plus, there’s always the heritage element: you could argue the black and white design harks back to the brand’s earliest logos at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 20, 2023

It was chosen as the Spicer Warin brand font thanks to its classic, delicate feel; and is paired with UK foundry Colophon's geometric sans-serif Relative.

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Shillington

JANUARY 9, 2020

The post Colophon Foundry appeared first on Shillington Design Blog.

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Abduzeedo

JULY 6, 2020

We enhance narratives by translating concepts into strategic visual systems that transit between digital, printed, spatial and audiovisual. Our production has versatility and tooling knowledge of the team as fundamental points. Typography: Universal Sans. Format: 420×594 mm. Paper: Coated Matte 150g / m2. Printing: Offset.

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Identity Designed

AUGUST 6, 2019

Colophon: Opposit. The interior design continues the visual language of a Shokudo, translated into a casual bar with cosy lighting and tongue-in-cheek graphics in various corners. The lights and canvas at the bar counter are both inspired by the intricate folds of dumplings. Riso printing: Knuckles & Notch. Paper: Recypal.

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Canny

MAY 3, 2023

Nomad collaborated with Colophon, a font foundry, to create a unique typeface called ‘Pets Headline’ for the new wordmark.This is carried through every channel in the Pets brand world, again bringing the separate entities together to create one tight visual system.

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Designspiration

JUNE 20, 2021

Colophon show off their latest work at new exhibition in Amsterdam #print #design #graphic

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Logo Design Love

APRIL 17, 2023

Photo via Type Punch Matrix The colophon states that 750 copies were printed in December 1930, with 650 copies for sale. He designed for book publishers such as Encyclopedia Britannica, Vanguard Press, and the Book League of America.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 20, 2023

It was chosen as the Spicer Warin brand font thanks to its classic, delicate feel; and is paired with UK foundry Colophon's geometric sans-serif Relative.

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Abduzeedo

APRIL 9, 2021

Space mono: Colophon Foundry. Art direction & graphic design: Lina Forsgren. Development: Sam Skogh. Fonts in use: happy times at the ikob new game plus edition by Lucas le Bihan / Velvetyne foundry. Epilogue: Tyler Finck.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Grilli Type’s G America and Colophon’s Nib accompany Pentagram’s custom type. This extends to a custom alphabet built using similarly changeable shapes, allowing people to use different glyphs as “personal icons”, or “typographic accents” to be deployed across the Serif network.

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ID Identity Design

APRIL 24, 2023

Helpetica” Working closely alongside Colophon , we commissioned “Pets Headline,” a typeface to be used across every channel in the brand world. Where some owners start to take on the appearance of their pet, others find companionship in the form of the most unlikely breeds, with pet-owner pairings that simply put a smile on your face.

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Spine Magazine

JUNE 10, 2020

Fortescue – from the Colophon foundry – and Albertus black have a good balance of contemporary cleanliness and razor-sharp edges. I ended up using another Colophon font – Aperçu – for the typography.

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Design Week

AUGUST 4, 2021

The studio has worked with London-based foundry Colophon on developing a bespoke typeface for the project, called 1906. Greenspace had already developed a logotype for the new name with an overlapping ‘W’ letter, and Colophon created a full font family with three different weights. ” [link].

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Creative Boom

JULY 5, 2023

Weave by Colophon Foundry Weave is a refined sans-serif that explores the movement and relationship between angular and smooth outlines via moments of high contrast paired with loose, soft curves. Touvlo by Emilios Theofanous via Monotype Touvlo by Emilios Theofanous via Monotype 4.

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Under Consideration / Brand

JANUARY 24, 2020

Typeset in Colophon Foundry's Transcript , the boxes and tubes have a striking simplicity thanks to a lack of any distractions and some really bold and intense colors -- even the off-white, tan-ish color has a real depth to it.

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Design Week

JULY 15, 2020

A bespoke typeface has been created with type foundry Colophon. FutureBrand has also created a ‘Brand Hub’ which stores all the brand guidelines and assets in one place. This will be updated as new challenges arise for the brand. Currys Sans.

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Under Consideration / Brand

AUGUST 10, 2020

I also like the supporting serif, a customized version of Colophon Foundry’s Brick. To their credit, the one cool thing the identity does is take the patterns from the clothing in the illustrations as a significant design element that gets funneled through large crops of bits and pieces of the wordmark. That’s nice.

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Shillington

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Released by Colophon in 2010, the original concept behind Aperçu was to create a synopsis or amalgamation of classic realist typefaces: Johnston, Gill Sans, Neuzeit, and Franklin Gothic. Released in 2014 by Colophon Foundry, this sans-serif has a distinctive tone of voice and is particularly striking when used in headlines.

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Shillington

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Created as a bespoke typeface for Visuelt , a design conference in Oslo, this typeface by Colophon spawned from a “more considered and constrained version” of Aperçu. Colophon revised and revisited the font and produced additional weights – the lightest of which has thin, precise curves.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 20, 2023

The new wordmark uses a specially commissioned typeface, Pets Headline, which Nomad developed with font foundry Colophon. Colophon also created another typeface which is used for the sub-branding logos and shares many of the same design properties as the Pets logo so that the two typefaces can work side by side.

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Creative Review

JULY 21, 2021

Other contributors include Choque le Goff, BCMH, Studio Lowrie, Colophon Foundry, Soft Power, Accept & Proceed, Actual Source, Rapha Studio, Nosport, Commercial Type, and Colin Doerffler. NoSport Colophon Foundry Colin Doerffler 13 is on display at Rapha’s London clubhouse until July 28.

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Canny

APRIL 12, 2023

The project was led by the Coca-Cola Global Design team alongside Jones Knowles Ritchie (brand identity and packaging), Relative (packaging guidelines and imagery), Gretel (motion identity), Colophon (typography), Tim Marsella (lifestyle photography), Martin Wonnacott (product photography), and Lucas Wakamatsu (illustration).

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Under Consideration / Brand

JUNE 8, 2020

Colophon Foundry's Mabry does a great job as the " straight man " that helps the handwritten typeface, scribbles, and illustrations stand out. We want to steer away from staged photography and move towards something more realistic and unscripted. MagicLab Design project page. Out of home advertising.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lay Grotesk by Colophon Lay Grotesk is a contemporary sans-serif that reinterprets the style of the classics such as Helvetica, Neue Haas Grotesk and Folio, running with their Swiss neutrality but smoothing out their rigidity. Lay Grotesk by Colophon 16. Kibitz by Colophon Foundry 45.

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Fonts Brand Branding Inspiration 533

Design Week

JANUARY 8, 2021

“Rounded, bold, yummy” The rebrand features a redrawn logo and a bespoke typeface – a bold serif called Flame – designed by Colophon Foundry. Burger King has said it expects the roll out of the visual identity to be completed “over the next few years” [link].

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Design Week

MARCH 20, 2020

The fonts have been designed by the Cardiff office of design studio Smörgåsbord, in collaboration with the Colophon Foundry. A typeface has been created for the Welsh language which celebrate the country’s heritage. Graphic designer Joseph Burrin also consulted.

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Eye on Design

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The word “Afrophon’” is a portmanteau made of ‘Afrophone (African speech)” and “Colophon,” the area in a publication where publishing credits live — evoking a nimble, dual association of African voice and speech, as well as a nod to the creative labor of independent publishing.

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The Die Line

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Everybody wants their own proprietary typeface. Even Durex.

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Under Consideration / Brand

JANUARY 10, 2020

Looking almost like a custom job, the wordmark is typeset in Colophon's Nib , which looks delightful in its all-uppercase setting. Her identity, designed by Melbourne, Australia-based Studio Brave , focuses on a wordmark that feels as crafted and considered as her pieces.

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