Been a week since our multilingual typography exhibition for Singapore Design Week. Here are some snaps of the gallery space @ultrasupernewsg ❤️
📸 by @highthere.studio and @g.niiia
We will be launching fresh new risograph prints at SGABF’s Cut Copy Paste Fair at Temasek Poly (27th Jan to 29th Jan)!
COTYPE is a collaborative design project that gathers young Singaporean designers to start a discourse about the design ecosystem around them - expressed through honest conversations and modular typography. Each print speculates new considerations for the future of design education. COTYPE is still an ongoing project.
Get a copy (or 4) if you are heading down to the Zine Fest! We will be boothing with our friends @variegated.friends and many others ✌️
Feel free to slide into our DMs to purchase these sets as well!
Credits to:
Sylvester @syl.vstr
Toby @tobyato
Micheal @faux_icing
Naomi @naomirchen
Reynard @rey.gret
Jasmin @kool.type
Yun Xuan @ynxnl
Lorix @lorixtan
Justin Noah @justinnoahc
Yolanda @yolanda.pdf
Zeharn @zeharn_zeherng
Zeherng @zeharn_zeherng
Sing Hong @singhongg
Charm @charmkxm
szi yang @yangadelic
Gwen @saydrawings
Celia @luckyybreaker
Thaqif @tntn.xyz
Qing @q.qqing
darren @dar.muen
Hariz @haha.hariz
Workshop hosted by @deathoftypography
Getai Grotesk, designed by @syl.vstr and released under our foundry, was used by @_kineticsg as the key typeface for branding Singapore Design Week. The festival’s dynamic identity explores a range of type treatments and layouts—expanding the possibilities of expression within a simple typographic system.
Singapore Design Week, organised by @designsingapore , is a celebration of creativity and innovation, showcasing the best of design from Singapore and beyond.
Getai Grotesk is available for download on our website. Link in bio! ✨
𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 #5: 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒚𝒑𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚
It takes a kampong to make a typeface.
Death of Typography builds fonts the way Singapore builds anything worth keeping: 𝕥𝕠𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣, and with 𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 at the centre.
Getai Grotesk started from the visual language of the Getai stage: signboards, Chinese calligraphic rhythm, and that unapologetic “ʟᴏᴏᴋ ᴀᴛ ᴍᴇ” energy. The idea was always to make a typeface that performs like Getai does: loud, proud, celebratory.
Robusta came from a very different (but equally Singaporean) place: kopi gu you. Designed under DOT’s font incubation programme, it channels that 𝓫𝓾𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓽 and weight: warm, sturdy, and just a little bit rebellious.
And none of it happens solo, with mentors, batchmates, collaborators, and countless rounds of feedback helped take these fonts from cultural references to real, production-ready type.
Want to see which archetype you are? Take the Just My Type quiz — link in bio. 🐙✨
𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀. ✦
Coming soon: conversations with the minds behind Just My Type — the designers who gave these archetypes their voice.
Expect: what they’re obsessed with, how they build, what they believe good type should do, and the moments that shaped their practice.
First interviews dropping soon.
And if you haven’t yet, 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒛 (link in bio) to find your archetype before you meet the designer behind it.
Meet the minds (𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕤) behind the archetypes. ✦
For Just My Type, we teamed up with designers whose practices shape the personalities you’ve been seeing.
Featuring:
𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙮𝙥𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮
Part collective, part movement — Death of Typography is broadening how type design is shared, taught, and seen in Singapore.
𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝘿𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚
From brand identity to type design, Mark’s practice is grounded in the belief that letters carry story and place.
𝙇𝙚𝙚 𝙌𝙞𝙪 𝙒𝙚𝙣
Rooted in language and culture, Qiu Wen approaches type as both a visual practice and a way of meaning-making.
𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙪𝙨 𝙊𝙪
Experimental at heart, Darius explores typography through graphic lore, printed matter, and boundary-pushing form.
𝙔𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙖𝙣
Working acoss Latin and Chinese type, Ying Tong brings precision, depth, and a sharp contemporary eye to contemporary letterforms.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲? Take the quiz and get your archetype — link in bio. ✦
1.5 mths late but here’s our 2025 recap 🤩
1. One of us was hospitalised but that did not stop us! Nicest meeting room we’ve had.
2. Launched Hooke 🎣 our first font from our Font Incubation Programme
3. Held workshops again - had a really fun time revamping our activities and seeing the beautiful outcomes
4. PINCH US!! Prepping our first overseas workshop for ATYPI in Copenhagen
5. Visiting the Royal Danish Academy
6. I think we learned as much from our participants as they did from us 🥺❤️ Seeing their languages incorporated in our workshop activities was amazing.
7. Closing ceremony of ATYPI 🥺
8. Had fun exploring food and museums in Sweden & Copenhagen 🇸🇪🇩🇰
9. Featured alongside other creative voices on the ‘60 on 60’ page
10. Exploring Singapore Design Week ✌️
11. @qiuboon winning a GUS’25 Merit Award …
12. … and heading back to teach type in ADM (full circle moment)
13. First time collaborating with @fransnfam to host a home cafe launch event - we had so much fun!
14. Launched Robusta, the second of the Font Incubation Programme
15. Did a workshop with @aeae_furniture
16. Outcomes went onto a 2026 calendar ❤️📆
17. Headed back to the classroom we met in, to do a crit session for a Type class 🥺
18. Took a break for the rest of 2025 and went to Taipei for Xmas
19. & Okinawa for NYE 🎆
Here’s to more adventures in 2026!
Happy Lunar New Year! ❤️ Just a #tb to the beautiful letters created with our participants in our last workshop with @aeae_furniture !
The auspiciously red 2026 calendar designed in collaboration with them and our participants can be purchased via their website. 🗓️
Type gets LOCAL! 🇸🇬 We’re introducing 4 accessible fonts to spice up your next project while supporting a homegrown Singaporean collective.
Featured Typefaces:
✨ DT Nightingale
🏙️ DT World Tour
🚉 DT Straits San
🌿 DT Nouveau
Head over to deathoftypography.com to explore the full library.
💡 PRO-TIP: Follow our account to find out how you can try these out for FREE very soon... 🎁
Now available on our website – Robusta is a bold slab serif inspired by Singapore’s butter coffee (kopi gu you), a Hainanese creation that embodies warmth, strength, and cultural blend ☕️🧈It’s also the second release from our Font Incubation Programme!
Designed by: @osomatte@huyle.work@adriana.garciduenas
☕️ Introducing our latest font, Robusta, releasing on our foundry next week! 🧈
Did you know: Singapore’s kopi traditionally uses Robusta beans for their practicality and boldness. As they are known to be harsher and more bitter than Arabica, they are roasted with margarine and sugar to create a deep, nutty richness. This beloved drink is known as kopi gu you or bulletproof coffee which is the inspiration behind Robusta.
Designed by the wonderful @osomatte@huyle.work@adriana.garciduenas 🫶
