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TypothequeFrom a trail of type to the Trail of Tears Typotheque type foundry, get unique, high quality fonts for print and screens directly from the designers. We also create custom (bespoke) fonts for most world's languages.

08.06

TypothequeTypotheque is looking for a Junior Graphic Designer Typotheque is looking for a junior graphic designer, 2–3 days/week to design type specimens.

06.09

TypothequeNew typeface: Chairman Chairman is a utilitarian neo-grotesque that grows quieter at headline sizes and sparkier in running text, with three width systems that shape the rhythm of paragraphs.

06.08

TypothequeIntroducing a new accessibility platform for designers Today, in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we are launching accessibility.tools — a free toolkit built for designers who want to create more inclusive work.

05.21

TypothequeA new collection of Tibetan fonts We already support 26 writing scripts, and today we add another: Tibetan, created in the 7th century to translate Buddhist texts, has barely changed since — while the spoken language has shifted…

05.21

TypothequeThe evolution of Tibetan typography An in-depth overview of Tibetan typography, tracing the script’s origins, structure and stylistic traditions, and following its transformation from early calligraphy and woodblock printing through…

05.21

TypothequeFont Expressiveness Game We’re creating a new type specimen and need your help ranking 200+ fonts by expressiveness — from most neutral to most characterful.

03.25

TypothequeA typeface in four dimensions Description: Zed is a font superfamily built on four variable design axes and spans more than 500 individual styles. This post attempts to make that vast design space easier to grasp.

01.19

TypothequeImproving Zed Display Last year we released the Zed type system. Today, it gets better. It is not just a language extension, but complete re-engineering of the fonts, for smoother interpolation and variability.

01.19

Typotheque2025: Our Year in Review As every year, we’re ending the year with a short overview of what happened at Typotheque. 2025 was busy: we released new typefaces, published new research, and spent a fair amount of time lecturing…

2025.12.30

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo