Typeface Design for Fontwerk

80 styles, eight scripts, with designer royalties funding rainforest preservation

Pangea is a sans-serif typeface system designed by Christoph Koeberlin and published by Fontwerk in 2020, with updates continuing through 2026. The collection spans 80 styles including variable fonts with four axes—weight, width, italic, and optical size—and covers Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Devanagari, and Georgian scripts. Script-specialist designers contributed each non-Latin extension, with condensed variants and additional scripts added in staged releases between 2021 and 2026. Twenty-five percent of all designer royalties are permanently donated to rainforest conservation and reforestation projects.

Set in Pangea

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Version 3.00 (2024) restructured the variable font architecture: a single optical-size axis replaced four previously separate axes.
Each non-Latin script was developed with dedicated specialists—Arabic by Azza Alameddine, Hebrew by Yanek Iontef and Daniel Grumer, Thai by Boom Promphan Suksumek, Devanagari by Lipi Raval, and Georgian by Akaki Razmadze.
Web subsets range from 97 KB (Georgian) to 936 KB (all languages) in woff2, with Basic European Latin at 209 KB.
Design work began in 2016, four years before the 2020 release, with script additions continuing through August 2026.