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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 process. Typodarium 2019 features 365 typefaces (one per day) designed by 229 designers from all around the world.
The calendar was designed by Florian Hauer, edited by Raban Ruddigkeit and Lars Harmsen, and published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt. Sindelar is one of the selected typefaces and has been assigned an honourable task: It gives next year’s Day of German Unity, October 3, a dignified typographic appearance.
Bil Dawson’s convincing answer to a frequently asked question.
Typodarium 2019 comes with a colourful box for collecting the torn off calendar sheets.
The Day of German Unity, October 3, is set in three different styles of Sindelar.
The back side of October 3 contains a short description of Sindelar.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 information to its inhabitants in such visual quality.
The magazine was conceived by Austrian architect and journalist Wojciech Czaja and by Austrian graphic designer Helga Innerhofer. As a foundry we are especially proud of this feature: The journal is entirely set in our type families Acorde and Sindelar which complement each other perfectly well.
Two covers of the quarterly journal Muntermacher.
Various impressions of Muntermacher which perfectly show Acorde’s and Sindelar’s excellence.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 2017: The book accompanying the exhibition is now available for purchase at the renowned Swiss publishing house Niggli. It introduces and documents the designs of more than 50 designers and foundries working locally and worldwide and presents more than 450 pages of recent Austrian type designs.
Cover of the exhibition book Subtext: Typedesign.
Double page spread showing a focused Stefan Willerstorfer at work.
As one of Austria’s leading foundries our work is showcased in the book in great detail. The typefaces in the book are not only shown as specimens but also in real use. In addition, the book contains a comprehensive text section in which well-known authors from various cultures and academic disciplines explore their relationships to type design. Definitely worth a read!
Double page spread presenting all 14 styles of Acorde.
Double page spread showcasing Acorde in use.
Double page spread presenting all 18 styles of Sindelar.
Double page spread showcasing Sindelar in use.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 Excellent Arts category. Sindelar is showcased in the book on a double page spread next to other outstanding projects. The book presents excellent designs on more than 430 pages and is published in German and English.
Cover of Design Next Generation, showing all winners of DDC’s design competition.
Sindelar succeeded in the category Excellent Arts.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 German newspaper designer Jan Famira.
The newspaper gets published five times a year and is sent to all Protestants living in Frankfurt free of charge. It seems the newspaper’s new design has easily convinced the audience as the post by a regular reader suggests: »The new design is really well done, very beautiful, appealing, and lively. Thanks a lot for that!« As a foundry we obviously believe that Sindelar, the newspaper’s new text face, plays a major role in this respect.
Recent covers of the newspaper of the Protestant Church in Frankfurt.
Sindelar’s great legibility qualities can been seen throughout the newspaper.Kulturgeschichten Wien relies on Sindelar
As Viennese as it gets: Kulturgeschichten 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 commemorated for the 100th time in 2016.
The magazine is written, designed, typeset, and printed in Vienna. Even the main typeface is Viennese: The whole body text is typeset in Sindelar.
Cover of the first issue of Kulturgeschichten Wien.
Various impressions of Kulturgeschichten Wien, designed by Gernot Winter.