AUGUST 2020

Happy birthday, Acorde!

Happy birthday, Acorde! And it’s a significant one indeed. Ten years are really something to celebrate. Acorde has been delighting designers and readers around the globe for a decade now and will continue to do so. In the past ten years we’ve had [...]

FEBRUARY 2020

The new Yearbook of Type features White, Black. Gray!

I am happy to see my article, White, Black. Gray! – Why Sketching Matters, published in the new Yearbook of Type (#4 2019/20). It is part of a comprehensive series of instructive articles focused on various aspects of type design. My article appears [...]

SEPTEMBER 2019

Wienerberger’s new logotype: Our bespoke design solution

Wienerberger’s new logotype has been in use for some time now and we are still very proud of it. The logotype exemplarily proves all the advantages of an individual design solution. Since it is not based on an existing typeface but drawn from scratch all [...]

AUGUST 2019

Gerhard Hanappi book set in Sindelar and Acorde

Now that’s a project we are really happy about. The book about famous Austrian football (soccer) player and architect Gerhard Hanappi is entirely set in Sindelar and Acorde. The book was designed by Austrian designer Peter Duniecki and published [...]

FEBRUARY 2019

Puzzling poster for die Graphische features Acorde

As you might know, Acorde was designed to be perfectly suited to all different sizes, from small continuous text to large headlines and big signage. Therefore its large application on this poster is a great example of Acorde’s display [...]

NOVEMBER 2018

Speaking at this year’s Joseph Binder Symposium in Vienna

I was invited to speak at this year’s Joseph Binder Symposium which took place two weeks ago in Vienna’s Designforum. There were twelve talks by designers and illustrators in total. All of these talks focused on the value of the sketch during the [...]

OCTOBER 2018

Typodarium 2019 features Sindelar on October 3

»A fresh font a day keeps the boredom away« is the motto of Typodarium, the popular series of annual tear-off calendars. In its eleventh edition, Typodarium 2019 highlights chromatic typefaces that bring colour and versatility into the design [...]

JULY 2018

Muntermacher is entirely set in our type families

Muntermacher, that’s what the quarterly journal of the market town of Moosburg in Carinthia (Austria) is called. A Muntermacher is a person or substance that wakes you up. And yes, it does. Great to see a journal from a small market town offering [...]

MAY 2018

Exhibition book Subtext: Typedesign is now available

You want to know more about the thriving Austrian type design scene? In case you missed the popular type design exhibition, Subtext: Typedesign, which took place in Vienna in April and May of this year: The book accompanying the [...]

MARCH 2018

Sindelar is part of
Design Next Generation

Design Next Generation – That’s the title of the book presenting all winning entries of DDC’s renowned design competition Gute Gestaltung (Good Design). You may have noticed that we were honoured by winning a DDC Award for Sindelar in the [...]

JANUARY 2018

Evangelisches Frankfurt
is now typeset in Sindelar

It is always great to see when one of our typefaces perfectly contributes to a great work of design. With this newspaper that’s really the case: Evangelisches Frankfurt is the newspaper of the Protestant Church in Frankfurt. It was designed by [...]

NOVEMBER 2017

Kulturgeschichten Wien relies on Sindelar

As Viennese as it gets: Kultur- geschichten Wien is a quarterly magazine about Vienna with a specific thematic focus in every issue. The magazine’s first issue is dedicated to former Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. whose death was [...]

OCTOBER 2017

Netzwerk Zukunftsraum Land is typeset in Sindelar

Another great example of Sindelar in use: Netzwerk Zukunftsraum Land is a journal for rural development published quarterly by the association of the same name. The association was installed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, [...]

AUGUST 2017

Acorde webfonts are finally available for purchase

Long-awaited by users around the globe and by all people with a passion for humanist sans serifs: Acorde webfonts are finally available for purchase. Since quality always comes first at Willerstorfer Font Foundry, Acorde webfonts were carefully [...]

JULY 2017

News from Mumbai: Sindelar is Mid-Day’s new text face

Next to the Philippine Daily Inquirer in Makati (Metro Manila), another large Asian newspaper also started using Sindelar as their new text face in 2016: India’s morning daily newspaper Mid-Day from Mumbai. Mid-Day is a mainstream [...]

JUNE 2017

That’s how Sindelar is applied in the Philippine Daily Inquirer

We have mentioned it before and it’s great news indeed: The Philippine Daily Inquirer started using Sindelar as their new text face in October 2016. The Philippine Daily Inquirer is the most widely read broadsheet in the Philippines with a daily [...]

MAY 2017

Interview in Chinese design magazine Design 360°

Asia remains a great terrain for us, our typefaces and our expertise. Next to having two major newspaper clients in India (Mid-Day, Mumbai) and in the Philippines (Philippine Daily Inquirer) who use Sindelar as their text face on a daily basis in their print [...]

APRIL 2017

Austrian design exhibition Subtext: Typedesign in Vienna

Yesterday the opening of the design exhibition Subtext: Typedesign took place at the Designforum in Vienna’s Museumsquartier. The opening was a great success and attracted more than 500 people. The exhibition subtitled zeitgenössisch–lokal: [...]

FEBRUARY 2017

Paul T. Frankl’s autobiography entirely set in Acorde

Another great example of Acorde in use: Paul T. Frankl’s autobiography offers a unique insight into the rise of American modernism from an insider’s point of view. It sheds light on Paul T. Frankl and his contemporaries as well as on [...]

OCTOBER 2016

The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s new text face: Sindelar

Great news from Asia: The Philippine Daily Inquirer started using Sindelar as their new text face yesterday. The introduction of Sindelar was part of a comprehensive redesign of the newspaper done by the world-renowned media consulting [...]

JULY 2016

Magazine News switched to Sindelar as their text face

Now that’s great news: Austrian magazine News switched to Sindelar as their primary text face. Good choice! News is one of Austria’s biggest weekly magazines and the major news magazine in the country. It has a circulation of about [...]

JULY 2016

Yearbook of Type 2 presents Sindelar

Two years after the Yearbook of Type 1, which showcased our type family Acorde, its successor is now on the market: the Yearbook of Type 2. It’s great to contribute to this beautiful compendium again with one of our type families. The Yearbook [...]

JULY 2016

Sindelar is the Best Work of Applied Typography 26

We have already announced it in December and now you can have a look for yourself: Sindelar is the Best Work in the typeface category of Applied Typography 26 and therefore featured in the Japan Typography Yearbook 2016. Enjoy! [...]

JUNE 2016

Order your printed Sindelar specimen free of charge

Are you looking for a poster for your studio wall or your living room? Then the Sindelar specimen might be of interest to you. It serves as a flyer informing you about Sindelar’s outstanding qualities and as a poster showing Sindelar’s characters [...]

JUNE 2016

Interview in German design magazine Novum

Recently I was interviewed at length by German design magazine Novum. The interview is published in the current issue (07.16) and is available in German and in English. It covers varied issues such as design trends, bespoke typefaces, renowned [...]

JUNE 2016

Sindelar wins Communication Arts Award of Excellence

In case you have not seen it yet: That’s what Sindelar looks like in the Communication Arts Typography Annual 6. Sindelar is presented as a winner of Communication Arts’ Typography Competition 2016. Not only on the double page spread [...]

APRIL 2016

German Design Award Yearbook features Sindelar

We are proud to emphasise it once more: We were honoured by winning the German Design Award 2016. Therefore Sindelar is featured in the German Design Award 2016 Yearbook Excellent Communications Design. Great to see it published [...]

MARCH 2016

Sindelar is featured in German design magazine Page

In case you are already bored of using Times or Times New Roman over and over again: Check out the current issue (04/16) of German design magazine Page and inform yourself about superior alternatives to Times. Sindelar is featured as one of [...]

MARCH 2016

Sindelar wins the iF Design Award in Gold

The iF Design Award Night 2016 in Munich was a memorable and great experience. The impressive BMW Welt was the appropriate and dignified location for the handing over of the iF Design Awards on the 26th of February 2016 in the presence [...]

FEBRUARY 2016

Sindelar succeeds at the German Design Award 2016

Great news from Frankfurt again: We were honoured by winning another well-respected design award for Sindelar last weekend: The German Design Award 2016. This award is a strong acknowledgement for the work being done at Willerstorfer Font [...]

DECEMBER 2015

Sindelar is featured in the
Red Dot Yearbook 2015/2016

Hot off the press: The International Yearbook Communication Design 2015/2016 shows all winning entries of the Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2015. It comes in two volumes and consists of more than 1,000 pages in total. Great to see [...]

DECEMBER 2015

Sindelar wins a DDC Award
in Frankfurt

The success story continues: On the 4th of December at the Industrie- und Handelskammer (the former stock exchange building) in Frankfurt it became official that Sindelar is a winning entry in the renowned design competition Gute Gestaltung [...]

NOVEMBER 2015

Sindelar was celebrated at the Red Dot Gala in Berlin

What a night. The Red Dot Gala in Berlin was a great and unforgettable experience. On the 6th of November 2015, the international creative scene celebrated the best of the best in the communication design industry. On stage at the Konzerthaus Berlin, [...]

AUGUST 2015

Red Dot Award: Best of the Best for Sindelar

The Red Dot Award and especially its premium distinction Best of the Best is one of the most respected design awards in the area of Communication Design. Winning this prestigious award for Sindelar is a great honour and a strong acknowledgement [...]

JULY 2015

Interview at FreeTypography’s Typography Blog

Recently I was interviewed at length by FreeTypography’s Typography Blog. If you are interested in learning more about my work and the motivation and values behind it, please head to FreeTypography. Among other things you can read about the [...]

JULY 2015

Sindelar webfonts are now available for purchase

I am pleased to announce the release of Sindelar webfonts. In order to retain Sindelar’s high legibility qualities, all webfonts were carefully developed and tested. Thus Sindelar is the ideal text face choice for newspapers and magazines, not only on paper [...]

MAY 2015

I Love Typography presents the making of Sindelar

At ilovetypography.com there is a series of articles on the making of fonts. My contribution, Making Fonts: Sindelar, is the most recent article in this series. The article describes the requirements of newspaper typefaces in general and gives an insight [...]

MARCH 2015

Acorde joyfully celebrates
St. Patrick’s Day 2015

As a special ingredient to St. Patrick’s Day 2015, Acorde joins the worldwide celebrations in giving your calendar an appropriate typographic appearance. Take a look at Typodarium 2015 whilst drinking a pint of Guinness or a shot of Irish Whiskey. Feel the [...]

JANUARY 2015

Acorde/Sindelar Bundles
are now available

Sindelar and Acorde complement each other perfectly. Thus many clients are interested in using both type families alongside one another. The Acorde/Sindelar Bundle reflects this demand and merges all 14 styles of Acorde and all 18 styles of [...]

DECEMBER 2014

Sindelar, a news and media text face, is now available

I am pleased to announce that after a long period of elaborate development, my second type family, Sindelar, is now available. It is the ideal text face choice for newspapers and magazines, comes in 18 styles and was designed between 2009 and 2014. [...]

DECEMBER 2013

Typotopografie focuses on Vienna in its fifth issue

Typotopografie is a publication series focusing on the typographic characteristics of a selected city in each issue. Starting with Munich, followed by Düsseldorf, Berlin, and Leipzig, now it’s Vienna’s turn to be in the focus of attention. [...]

JULY 2013

Yearbook of Type 1 presents Acorde

The Yearbook of Type 1 is an independent compendium of high quality typefaces published by the renowned Swiss publishing house Niggli. It presents a selection of more than 180 of the best contemporary type families on more than [...]

FEBRUARY 2013

Typefaces by Austrian Designers – No. 22: Acorde

Design Austria is the only professional association and service organisation in Austria representing the interests of designers from all creative disciplines. Among many other activities Design Austria publishes a popular series of type specimen called Schriften [...]

DECEMBER 2012

Acorde presents the most beautiful books of A/D/CH/NL

Like every year the Typographic Society Austria (tga – Typographische Gesellschaft Austria) shows the most beautiful books of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands in cooperation with the Vienna Public Libraries and the Association [...]

NOVEMBER 2012

Josef Frank’s writings set
in Acorde

The bilingual book Josef Frank: Writings is a complete collection of all published writings of Austrian architect Josef Frank, one of the main protagonists of Classical Modernism. It comes in two volumes and consists of nearly 900 pages in total. [...]

NOVEMBER 2012

Publishing house facultas.wuv features Acorde

The Viennese publishing house facultas.wuv uses two italic styles of Acorde as the main dynamic visual element on the cover of one of their newest publications, a reference book of political science. The publication, entitled Theoriearbeit in [...]

SEPTEMBER 2012

Slanted #19 – Acorde is one of the super families

The current issue of the quarterly magazine Slanted – Typografie & Grafik Design deals with large type families, so-called super families. Due to their wide range of different styles (various weights, as well as widths or optical sizes) they are able to [...]

AUGUST 2012

Typodarium 2013 features Acorde on November 28

Typodarium 2013 is the fifth edition of a series of annual calenders edited by the duo Lars Harmsen and Raban Ruddigkeit and published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz. It is now available and features 365 typefaces (one per day) designed by [...]

FEBRUARY 2012

Typography Referenced refers to Acorde

The book Typography Referenced is a comprehensive visual guide to the language, history and practice of typography. It is co-authored by Allan Haley, Richard Poulin, Jason Tselentis, Tony Seddon, Gerry Leonidas, Ina Saltz, Kathryn Henderson, [...]

DECEMBER 2011

Acorde presents the most beautiful books of A/D/CH/NL

Like every year the Typographic Society Austria (tga – Typographische Gesellschaft Austria) shows the most beautiful books of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands in cooperation with the Vienna Public Libraries and the Association [...]

NOVEMBER 2011

Florian Hardwig reviews Acorde on MyFonts.de

MyFonts.de, the German branch of MyFonts.com, contains a gallery called Fontschau (Font Show), a place for exhibiting and reviewing outstanding typefaces. In his most recent review Florian Hardwig takes a close look at the type family Acorde. [...]

AUGUST 2011

Design Journal and Rolf Rehe recommend Acorde

The Design Journal is a bi-annual magazine covering the issues of news design and journalism. It is published by the Society for News Design (SND), an international organisation for news media professionals and visual communicators. [...]

JULY 2011

Typodarium 2012 features Acorde on January 26

The Typodarium 2012, a calendar edited by Lars Harmsen and Raban Ruddigkeit and published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz is now available and features 366 typefaces (one per day) designed by more than 250 designers from 32 [...]

JUNE 2011

Acorde is nominated for the German Design Award 2012

The German Design Award (Deutscher Designpreis) is the most prestigious German design competition covering the disciplines of communication design and product design. It is organised by the German Design Council (Rat für Formgebung). [...]

JUNE 2011

DA Mitteilungen presents
The making of Acorde

Since my article about the making of Acorde raised a lot of interest on the world’s most popular typography blog, I Love Typography (ILT), during autumn last year, I decided to translate the article to German and to make it specially available to [...]

MAY 2011

German newspaper INFO –
Der Südfinder trusts in Acorde

The German newspaper INFO – Der Südfinder is a regional newspaper in Baden-Württemberg with a circulation of more than half a million copies. German newspaper designer Hans Peter Janisch restructured the newspaper and brought [...]

APRIL 2011

Acorde succeeds at D&AD

The London-based organisation D&AD (formerly known as British Design & Art Direction) has been celebrating outstanding work in design and advertising for almost 50 years. It was founded in 1962 by a group of designers and art directors [...]

APRIL 2011

Acorde wins the Grand Prize of Applied Typography 21

Applied Typography is an international design competition organised by Japan Typography Association, Tokyo. The design competition awards prizes in about a dozen different typographic design categories such as editorial design, visual identity and [...]

APRIL 2011

Acorde succeeds at the Tokyo TDC Annual Awards

The Tokyo Type Directors Club (TDC) was founded in 1987 and organises the annual Tokyo TDC Awards design competition. This year’s winners are going to be published in the annual design book Tokyo TDC, Vol. 22. Among the winners is the [...]

FEBRUARY 2011

Valentype 2011 – a love declaration to Acorde

On the occasion of Valentine’s day, FontShop’s Yves Peters asked the readers of his popular blog, The FontFeed, to declare their love to a type family of their choice. The readers designed images of declaration by using typographic, [...]

JANUARY 2011

Acorde wins Communication Arts Award of Excellence

Communication Arts has been publishing annuals showing the best in visual communications from around the world since 1959. But still 2011 marks a change. It is the first time – and certainly the beginning of a long tradition – of publishing a [...]

DECEMBER 2010

Austrian publishing magazine Periodicum presents Acorde

Vielgesichtiges Schriftbild (multifaceted type) is the title of Christian Gutschi’s article on the type family Acorde in the current issue of Periodicum (No. 2/2010), the bi-annual magazine by the corporate publishing company Egger [...]

DECEMBER 2010

Publishing house edition a relies on Acorde

The Viennese publishing house, edition a, uses the type family Acorde as one of the main visual elements on two of their books’ covers and as the headline typeface inside these two books. One of the books is called Donnerwetter, a non-fiction [...]

NOVEMBER 2010

Acorde wins the Joseph Binder Award in Bronze

The Joseph Binder Award is a biennial international design competition organised by Design Austria, Austria’s only professional association and service organisation representing the interests of designers from all creative disciplines. The jury of this [...]

OCTOBER 2010

I Love Typography presents The making of Acorde

»I liked Stefan Willerstorfer’s new typeface Acorde so much, that I asked him to write about it for ILT«, states John Boardley, British-born writer, publisher, and graphic designer, who founded the world’s most popular typography blog ILT (I Love [...]

SEPTEMBER 2010

Media journal Graphische Revue presents Acorde

Graphische Revue is an Austrian media and design journal that has been published for more than one hundred years. In the current issue (No. 5/2010) Christian Gutschi introduces the type family Acorde and explains some of its characteristics [...]

SEPTEMBER 2010

4c magazine introduces Acorde as headline typeface

The Austrian printing and design magazine 4c has started using the type family Acorde for headlines in its current issue (No. 6/2010). Acorde’s well-balanced proportions and its harmonious interplay with the magazine’s text face Premiéra [...]

AUGUST 2010

Acorde is shown at TypeCon 2010 in Los Angeles

TypeCon is an annual type design conference in the United States presented by the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) since 1998. This year’s conference is entitled Babel and is held in Los Angeles from August 17 to [...]