Warsaw Types is a collection of 12 new font families inspired by the Warsaw’s local typographic heritage. They are all available for free.

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Warsaw Types is a series of typographic research and design workshops, that took place in 2016 in Warsaw. The result is 12 new typefaces, inspired by the Warsaw’s local urban typographic heritage, that until now, has gone largely unexplored. Fonts were created by young designers, who worked under the guidance of top most experienced Polish typographers and researchers. The goal of Warsaw Types is to contribute high quality, original fonts to the open source community. But we also want to put a spotlight on the vanishing handmade typo culture, which in our opinion is worth preserving and can become a fresh resource of design inspiration. During the research phase, participants took onto the streets to explore and document the most interesting cases of handcrafted signage, modernist neons, stone engravings, vintage murals, etc. This exploration, supported by archives, became the inspiration for new typefaces. All effects of our work will be available for free and for everyone to use on our website: kroje.org

Joanna Angulska

Rafał Buchner

Robert Jarzec

Beata Kurek

Mateusz Machalski

Ludka Niezgoda

Maciej Połczyński

Zuzanna Rogatty

Szymon Sznajder

Ania Wieluńska

Maciej Włoczewski

Michał Jarociński

Viktoriya Grabowska

Łukasz Dziedzic

Adam Twardoch

Jan Franciszek Cieślak

Rene Wawrzkiewicz

Jarosław Zieliński

Agata Szydłowska

Warsaw Types project is organised and coordinated by Miastodwa Culturemaking Association, in cooperation with Design Crit. The project is run in cooperation with, and co-funded by the City of Warsaw. Warsaw Types project is organized and coordinated by Miastodwa Culturemaking Association. The project is co-funded by the City of Warsaw.

Font samples:

Research and design workshops in PaństwoMiasto and in the gardens of Open Jazdów: