The Designers Foundry

First drawn nearly a decade ago by @janestradaosmycki and continually refined ever since; Wulkan Display has evolved yet again to become simply “Wulkan” 🌋. The new and improved Display family is now also accompanied by Headline and Text families with optical size and weight VF axes. Head to our website to learn about the many other details of the update and try Wulkan. Design: @janestradaosmycki / @tekio.work . Support: @madddmami

To commemorate 13 years of The Designers Foundry, we created a premium, limited-edition t-shirt. It’s been many years since our last t-shirt release, and with 13 traditionally recognised as the textile anniversary it felt right to make another now. The graphic features a soon to be released typeface by @thispopshitpop . The graphic is printed using a Kornit Atlas MAX PLUS DTG printer, while the small front TDF graphic is hand screen-printed. The t-shirts have been gifted to TDF collaborators, with only 13 per size now available to purchase in the Goods section of our website. Each t-shirt comes packaged in a screen-printed drawstring bag and ships in a compostable courier bag with free international shipping. 🌏 📦 Graphic and animation by @foolishmofo

Tomato Grotesk printed specimen by @andreabiggio . Free with any collection package (while stocks last). 24 pages, 289x380mm, 55gsm newsprint (EU Ecolabel and FSC certified).

NEW: Serica by @danielgremme . A uniwidth dot matrix type family with 23 styles and variable font support. Inspired by Dutch merklap embroidery, Serica translates this traditional craft into a contemporary typographic system. DM us “Serica” for a free trial.

🆕: Serica by @danielgremme , a uniwidth dot matrix type family with three shapes: Circle, Square and Squircle. 23 styles with variable font support. Inspired by Dutch merklap embroidery, Serica translates this traditional craft into a contemporary typographic system. By avoiding overlapping strokes and reducing the cap height to a strict 7-unit grid, the design produces steep diagonal angles and a distinctive rhythmic texture. This texture can be softened with SS01 for circular shapes or tightened with SS02 for compact shapes. Serica also includes extensive OpenType features such as swashes, ligatures, stylistic alts, emojis and more, totalling 1150 glyphs per style. Online now. Comment or DM for a demo version. 📥🔡🔵

🔬🔡 Another look at our new release Tocapu by @paovec . Try it online now or send us a DM for demo files. 📬

New: Tocapu by @paovec , a retrospective look at the conquest of the Inca Empire; a tribute to Andean resistance and their struggle to keep their culture alive. Forced to adopt European artistic models, Indigenous artists subtly embedded elements of Inca cosmovision into their work without detection. This cultural syncretism inspired Paola to explore how Andean resistance might have appeared in type design.
 Built on the functionality of sans serif typefaces, the design integrates reinterpretations of Inca tocapu to shape its personality, sitting between the contemporary and the ancestral. The typeface honours the past while looking forward. Available in 7 weights and a variable font, with extensive Latin support and OpenType features. Designed for projects requiring a modern tone with a distinctive human character. With the release of Tocapu we welcome Paola Vecco (@paovec ) to TDF! A graphic designer, lettering artist, and type designer based in Lima, Peru, she works across branding, innovation, and independent projects, using letterforms to explore identity and visual memory through diverse formats and materials. Her work has been recognised by the Type Directors Club, the Latin American Design Awards, the Brand New Awards, and featured in multiple international publications. Tocapu is online now to try and download. ✨

Now available on @tdfoundry - Drool is a sinister display serif by @forthandbackstudio inspired by H.R. Giger’s Xenomorph design for Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. Each character feels alive, as if grown rather than drawn, with curving terminals and slick connective tissue binding its anatomy together. The result is a biomechanical serif that pulses with tension: elegant yet unsettling, familiar yet grotesque.

Details of our new release, Berna by @andreabiggio ☄️✨

NEW: Berna, a versatile neo-grotesque typeface that merges modernist principles with Swiss tradition, reinterpreted through a contemporary and functional lens. Berna balances geometric precision with expressive curves and shapes. The family designed by @andreabiggio includes 16 styles (8 uprights and 8 italics) + a variable font. Extensive OpenType features and stylistic sets offer a broad range of alternatives. Named after the asteroid 1313 Berna, which itself was named in honour of the Swiss city of Bern.☄️ Images by @dissguido Motion by @foolishmofo Email or DM us for free demo files.

👀 The more you look, the more you’ll discover in our new type family Cards, released last week. Try online now or email/DM us for the free variable font demo. Designed by @bigtype.co

NEW: Cards type family spans 96 style across six widths and eight weights with matching italics, all wrapped into a single variable font. A versatile grotesque that combines Swiss and modernist principles with contemporary geometric forms and purposefully pronounced ink traps. Designed by Karol Mularczyk (@bigtype.co ), Cards features 19 stylistic sets, a vast range of OpenType features, and broad Latin support. Try it now on our website or DM/email for free demo files. 💽💌📥