In their own words
In a purely practical sense, merging the designs was relatively easy.
There’s a brutal honesty to a truck livery. It doesn’t care about the neuroses of people who can recognise Helvetica BQ in print.
Why couldn’t a typeface embrace those same tensions? Why does everything always need to resolve neatly?
I’m a really big fan of having typefaces that give the ability for people setting type to get an exact vibe.
Articles & interviews6
- Dinamo and Seb McLauchlan’s ABC Schengen fuses Helvetica and Eurostile
The Brand Identity features Dinamo’s latest type release, ABC Schengen, a six-year collaboration with Seb McLauchlan and Luke Charsley. The type system merges Helvetica and Eurostile influences into 108 styles inspired by the Eurozone’s industrial and logistical aesthetics. The project explores the tension between functional design and cultural identity, resulting in a versatile, variable type family spanning multiple scripts.
- Addison Copas doesn’t want “freedom”
The article profiles Virginia-born graphic designer Addison Copas, who embraces creative limitations and analog methods in his type and identity work. Rejecting the 'freedom' of open-ended briefs, Copas focuses on technique, materiality, and the tactile process of designing by hand. His work, inspired by typographer Oldřich Menhart, blends medieval warmth with modern precision across projects like Milk & Olive and LampPost.Live.
- Get in, loser! Dinamo’s auto-inspired typeface has arrived, with 108 fonts in the boot