font_designer: Tomáš Brousil

Fishmonger

Fishmonger font

Fishmonger originated from a commission of two fonts for the corporate identity of a fishmonger shop. When sketching the elementary principles for the lettering, the idea for a modern, extensive font family with a...

Magion

Magion font

Magion is a simple geometric sans, ideal for magazine headlines, logotypes, way-finding systems, and of course large billboards which need to make a great impact. Its tall x-height and strong, open character ensure perfect...

Dederon Sans

Dederon Sans font

Dederon Serif has been specifically designed for book setting. Preliminary sketches were drawn in 2004. Its inspiration — particularly its weight and width proportions — can be traced to the Liberta typeface from the...

Botanika

Botanika font

The motivation behind the Botanika family was the desire to create a text version of the Magion font. Although the glyphs were originally drawn using the same proportions, they were subsequently adjusted in order...

Orgovan

Orgovan font

Orgovan is based on calligraphic script models lettered with a flat brush, which have been a mainstay in the sign makers’ and display artists’ handbooks since the beginning of the 1960s. Careful adjustments to...

Katarine

Katarine font

From today’s point of view Katarine has a rather unusual origin. Initially an all-caps display face, what was to become the Medium weight of the family was augmented with a lower case, then the...

RePublic

RePublic font

In 1955 the Czech State Department of Culture, which was then in charge of all the publishing houses, organised a competition amongst printing houses and generally all book businesses for the design of a...

Dederon Serif

Dederon Serif font

Dederon Serif has been specifically designed for book setting. Preliminary sketches were drawn in 2004. Its inspiration – particularly its weight and width proportions – can be traced to the Liberta typeface from the...

Corpulent

Corpulent font

Corpulent is a display font whose forms are extremely thick, up to the extent of being nearly illegible. In the 1980s, these construction principles were explored to their very limit. So if the lyrics...

Purista

Purista font

Purista is a strict, orderly typeface based on a well-tried principle of geometric sans serifs from mid-20th century. Its obsession with technological precision makes it perfect for use in corporate systems and visual communications...