Grilli Type

The Brand Identity · Jun 17, 2026

The Brand Identity features Graz-based studio Zwupp’s evolving identity for Forward Festival 2026, which continues the studio’s decade-long collaboration with the event. Built around the 45° slant of GT Planar by Grilli Type, the system evolves annually, combining modular templates, motion, and typographic consistency across Frankfurt, Berlin, and Vienna. The design reflects a balance between experimentation and continuity, likened by Zwupp to a travelling circus that never resets.

Creative Boom · May 18, 2026

Creative Boom’s May 2026 roundup highlights six notable new typefaces from global foundries. The selection spans expressive scripts, historical revivals, and variable fonts, showcasing innovation from designers at Grilli Type, Monotype, Typofonderie, 205TF, Sproviero Type, and Dalton Maag. The article celebrates the diversity and technical evolution of contemporary typography.

The Brand Identity · Feb 9, 2026

Guadalajara-based Estudio Cariño created a colourful brand identity and packaging system for Mexican dressing brand Maldita Envidia. The work reframes envy as a positive appetite for flavour, using expressive typography, vibrant shelf-facing colours and illustrated flavour characters to make every label function like a mini-poster.

Creative Boom · Jan 22, 2026

Creative Boom’s January 2026 roundup by Tom May highlights standout new type releases from Grilli Type, W Type Foundry, Frere-Jones Type, and The Northern Block. The featured fonts balance functionality with personality, ranging from pragmatic corporate sans serifs to revived historical scripts. The article celebrates how modern type design merges utility, warmth, and historical awareness.

It's Nice That · Dec 9, 2025

The article introduces GT Era, a new variable typeface from Swiss foundry Grilli Type, designed by co-founder Thierry Blancpain. Inspired by 19th-century grotesks and early Bauhaus aesthetics, the typeface balances warmth and functionality for both display and text use. The launch includes a primary-coloured website showcasing the typeface’s expressive yet practical design approach.

Creative Boom · Sep 22, 2025

Creative Boom’s September 2025 roundup by Tom May highlights eight new typeface releases that blend historical inspiration with modern functionality. The article showcases global multiscript projects, expressive display fonts, and modular experiments from leading foundries such as TypeTogether, Grilli Type, and Lineto. It emphasizes the ongoing trend of balancing personality and utility in contemporary type design.

BP&O · Mar 12, 2025

BP&O features Manual’s brand identity for North Road, a global content studio founded by Peter Chernin. The identity centers on a custom serif typeface developed with Grilli Type and a motion system inspired by film title sequences. The work extends across digital and print applications, combining cinematic typography with tactile materials to convey authority and craft.

It's Nice That · Nov 21, 2024

Grilli Type has launched GT Flaire, a new typeface family described as the 'mullet of typefaces' for its balance of professionalism and playfulness. Designed by Reto Moser and co-founded by Thierry Blancpain, the project includes a witty, interactive launch website exploring the tension between 'business and pleasure'. The release reflects Grilli Type’s irreverent approach to corporate design and typographic experimentation.

Creative Boom · Nov 4, 2024

Creative Boom’s November 2024 roundup by Tom May highlights eight new typefaces from leading independent foundries. The selection spans from expressive display fonts to versatile workhorse families, showcasing the innovation and maturity of contemporary type design. Each release demonstrates a balance between historical inspiration and modern functionality.

Creative Boom · Oct 17, 2024

Episode 126 of The Spark podcast from Creative Boom reflects on Luigi Carnovale’s insights into reinvention and authenticity in the creative industry. The episode also covers D&AD’s 2024 creative trends, Headspace’s AI chatbot Ebb, and highlights independent type foundries to watch in 2025. It concludes with a preview of an upcoming interview with Lisa Smith of JKR and a creative tip about embracing vulnerability.

· Jun 18, 2024

PRINT Magazine’s Type Tuesday feature introduces GT Mechanik, a new monospace-inspired type family from Grilli Type designed by Shiva Nallaperumal, Reto Moser, and Noël Leu. The article describes the typeface as a reaction against the speed and noise of digital communication, celebrating constraint, texture, and deliberate design. GT Mechanik includes three styles—Mono, Semi, and Poly—each offering a distinct voice within the same mechanical DNA.

The Brand Identity · May 13, 2024

YourStudio has rebranded dental practice The Modern Dentist to challenge the sector's cold, clinical visual conventions. The identity combines a teeth-inspired dynamic shape system, warm bold colours and GT Pressura typography across visual, verbal and physical-space applications, expressing the promise of "Dentistry done differently."

The Brand Identity · Apr 4, 2024

SUPERHAUS created a fiery and playful brand identity for LULU, a new Pan-Asian restaurant in Bondi Beach and sister to Sydney’s Raw Bar. The identity draws on Japanese and beachside influences, using GT Maru typefaces and a bold, symmetrical wordmark to convey warmth and rhythm. The project balances cultural references with a vibrant visual system across print, signage, and digital applications.

BP&O · Feb 22, 2024

BP&O features Wolff Olins’ new branding for the New York Botanical Garden, a vibrant and flexible identity that balances Bronx boldness with organic lushness. The rebrand introduces a bespoke typeface, NYBG Gothic, and a bold color palette inspired by the garden’s diverse landscapes. The project reflects NYBG’s renewed global mission under new leadership and positions it as both a cultural and environmental leader.

The Brand Identity · Mar 6, 2023

Kiwi, New York-based designer and artist Hugo Christian-Slane created an electric identity for New Zealand music festival Nest Fest. The system combines an evolving bespoke modular wordmark with GT America Expanded, a uniform grid, and duo-tone AI imagery trained in Runway from the festival's existing photography. Colours drawn from native New Zealand birds reinforce the festival's local, community-led character across motion, merchandise, posters and other communications.

The Brand Identity · Nov 10, 2022

Auckland design studio Platform created an identity for local pâtisserie and bakery Zi Sweet that balances traditional baking craft with contemporary interpretations. The system uses contrasting typefaces, unconventional negative space and kerning in the logomark, and a restrained royal-blue-led palette to give the bakery a more prestigious, serious position.

The Brand Identity · Aug 30, 2022

Prague-based Anymade Studio created the identity for Czech artist Jiří Thýn’s exhibition, Silence, Torso, the Present, at Prague City Gallery. Drawing on Thýn’s exploration of photography and his inspiration from sculptor Hana Wichterlová, the identity combines GT Alpina and the gallery’s Magger sans serif with a vivid neon-yellow colour system that contrasts the artist’s black-and-white photography.