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Commissioned by the Federal Office of Police (fedpol) and released in Fall 2022, the new design of the Swiss passport is the result of a close collaboration between Geneva-based studio RETINAA and a group of experts led by fedpol, as well as with security printing specialists Thales and Orell Füssli. Between 2017 and 2019, Swiss Typefaces took part in the creative process by designing the font.

Early into 2023, we were contacted by japanese magazine "idea", for an interview about the relationship between space and characters.

Under Pentagram’s artistic guidance, our team has adapted and modified several letters and punctuation signs from Euclid Circular B to create a distinctive family for Virgin Galactic.

In 2019, Japanese designer Arata Maruyama started a 'design tour' of Switzerland. During his trip, he visited the Italian, French and German speaking regions of Switzerland to interview 30 individuals involved in the field of visual communication. We had the chance to be on his route, and to meet him in our office in Vevey.

We recently commissioned photographer and 3D-artist Gaël Corboz to create customs undiscovered fantasy worlds. We are pleased to introduce his work.

Raskal is a visual statement. There’s no denying that it looks direct. The design digitally translates and transforms handwriting and hand lettering’s most exciting elements, all inside one font.

Back in 2019, Swiss Typefaces was commissioned to produce a custom font for Android based on Euclid Circular A.

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Notre contribution au 25e numéro de La Revue de la BNU (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg). Notre article retrace l’histoire de Swiss Typefaces, explique notre lien étroit avec Sang Bleu ainsi que notre position dans l’industrie.

In 2020, Everpress (the garment printing platform) launched a yearly ‘Type in Focus’ capsule collection, celebrating type design and the craft of letterforms. In 2021, they asked us to design one of the shirts from the ‘Outside the Lines’ collection.

Discover the life of KRSNA, one of our first LAB fonts ever: from its first apparition on the record cover of Geneva-based musician Grace Core released in December 2015.

Back in the early 2000’s, piracy on digital products - mostly music and movies with the arrival of the MP3 format and P2P technology, but also fonts - was a question of survival for these industries. New distribution models had to be found. For small and emerging companies like Swiss Typefaces, there was no choice but to address this question in order to meet our potential audience.