Schrift Foundry
Design work for Schrift Foundry, collected from the studios behind it.
- Design cases
- 3
- Studio
- 1
- Latest work added
- Nov 2026
- Typography 3
Design cases by studio
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- Typeface Design for an Industrial-Inspired Font Family
- Struve, by Schrift Foundry, draws its proportions and robust character from early 20th-century industrial typography. Alternative letterforms were developed by studying typographic ephemera of that period—work by artists, typographers, and writers—then systematised into stylistic sets. The typeface extends to support several minority languages, including Pintupi-Luritja, Záparo, Chickasaw, and Yukaghir.
- Typeface Design for Retros
- Retros, by Schrift Foundry, fuses two distinct lettering traditions: the fluid, high-contrast strokes of broad-nib brush calligraphy and the sharp, precise lines of chiseled stone inscription. Character proportions draw on 1960s East German, Hungarian, and Bulgarian calligraphers alongside modern English calligraphy, while tombstone carvings at Highgate Cemetery in London also influenced the design. The typeface supports 288 languages and includes alternates, discretionary ligatures, and two sets of circled figures—white in black circles and black in white circles.
- Stencil Typeface for Schrift Foundry
- Bering Stencil traces its origin to a lifebuoy stencilled—presumably in the late 1960s—near the Swedish village of Skärhamn, and later discovered by the designers in Rostock, Germany. Schrift Foundry built the typeface on a multi-layered modular grid, using its geometric structure to extend proportions and weights across the family. The design retains a strict, analytical character consistent with stencilling as a functional lettering tool. The family supports more than 380 languages.
