Typeface Design for Fontwerk’s Case Collection

Three designers, seven years, 72 styles

Case is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface collection designed by Erik Spiekermann, Anja Meiners, and Ralph du Carrois, released by Fontwerk in 2020. The 2023 major update (v2.00) added 40 styles, a dedicated text subfamily with a smaller x-height, Cyrillic and Greek scripts, and over 100 additional Latin languages including Vietnamese and African Latin. The variable font spans weight and optical size axes. Design work ran from 2016 to 2023, with a minor 2025 update adding an alternative dollar and cent stylistic set.

Set in Case Collection

Insights

Version 2.00 is explicitly marked not backward compatible with earlier files.
The optical size axis is accompanied by a distinct Case Text subfamily carrying a reduced x-height, giving display and text uses separate structural identities.
Script expansion required specialist consultants: Eugene Yukechev for Cyrillic and Donny Trương for Vietnamese.