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An independent digital type foundry drawing original variable typefaces for screens, signage, and the cold margins of print. We set the type — you set the tone.
52.5200° N, 13.4050° E
Studio 4B · Berlin / Remote
Licensing worldwide
Licensing worldwide
LETTERFORMS
Letterforms with voltage.6
Type families
41
Variable axes shipped
12,480
Glyphs drawn
∞
Interpolations possible
01 — The Retail Library
Set it
Set it
yourself.
Every family below is live. Click into the specimen, delete our words, type your headline — the letterforms respond in real time. This is how the type will look in your hands.
Quiet elegance
const type = future;
LOUD & CLEAR
02 — Variable Playground
Morph it
Morph it
in motion.
Drag every axis. This specimen is powered by a real variable font (Recursive), wired straight into font-variation-settings. One file, infinite cuts.
↳ live render
/ rec-var.woff2
Type here
wght 600
slnt 0
CASL 0.00
MONO 0.00
CRSV 0
size 72px
track 0.00em
leading 0.98
Weight / wght600
Slant / slnt0°
Casual / CASL0.00
Mono / MONO0.00
Cursive / CRSV0
Size / px72
Tracking / em0.00
Leading / ratio0.98
03 — Character Set
Every
Every
glyph counts.
Each family ships a full Latin-Extended set, fractions, arrows, and a cabinet of alternates. Hover any cell to read its code point. This is a working font, not a logo.
04 — Studio Doctrine
A typeface is not decoration. It is the voice a sentence speaks in before a single word is read.
STEP / 01
Sketch
We draw the awkward letters first — g, a, e, & — by hand and on the cursor. If they survive, the family has a spine.
STEP / 02
Interpolate
Masters at the extremes, then we build the axes between them. Every in-between weight is tested, never auto-generated.
STEP / 03
Hint & Kern
Thousands of kerning pairs, manual hinting for small sizes, and proofing at 9px through 900px until the rhythm holds.
STEP / 04
Release
One variable file, web + desktop formats, a specimen, and a licence that respects how you actually work.
05 — Licensing
Pay for
Pay for
reach, not
seats.
No confusing tiers of equal cards. Pick the scale your work actually lives at — pricing grows with audience, and every licence is perpetual.
Trial
For sketching
Full variable file for comps and pitches. Not for published work — but morph it as hard as you like.
Free
/ per family
Independent
Web + desktop · ≤ 100k views/mo
For freelancers, small studios, and personal brands. One designer, unlimited projects you control.
€240
/ one-time, per family
Studio ◆
Most chosen · ≤ 2M views/mo · 10 seats
Web, desktop, app embedding, and broadcast. Includes the full variable axes and priority kerning requests.
€980
/ one-time, per family
Broadcast
Unlimited reach · custom embedding
For global campaigns, platforms, and products shipping the font in software. We draw bespoke axes on request.
Let's talk
/ scoped per use
All licences are perpetual — buy once, use forever. Self-hosted WOFF2 + variable TTF + OTF included. Education & nonprofit pricing at 50%. Trademark / logo use is covered under any paid tier.
06 — The Foundry
We are five drawers of letters working between Berlin and the internet, releasing slow type in a fast industry. Founded 2012. Independent ever since.
13
Years drawing
5
People, no investors
92
Countries licensed
0
Fonts auto-generated
GLYPH FOUNDRY started as a shared sketchbook and a stubborn belief: that a screen deserves the same care a metal punchcutter once gave a single sort of type. We don't license templates. We don't ship a weight we haven't read a paragraph in.
Every release begins on paper and ends in a variable file thin enough to load before your hero image does. That's the whole brief.
Ada ReinholtType Director
Niko VancePunchcutter / Eng
Imani OseiLatin & Symbols
Léa BrunHinting / QA
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THE TYPE
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