Custom Typeface for LaBrassBanda

Hand-drawn letters turned into a working font

Thomas and Martin Poschauko created handmade all-caps lettering for Bavarian brass band LaBrassBanda's album 'Around the World' and its stage design. TypeMates digitised the hand-drawn characters into a type system delivered in two variants—clean and rough—to suit different applications.

Set in LaBrassBanda Font

Insights

TypeMates converted authentic grayscale scans to monochrome vectors, drawing on prior experience with Cera Brush to handle the hand-crafted-to-digital process.
Digitising the drawings into a font made arbitrary typesetting in the handmade style possible, replacing the need to assemble individual letter images manually.
Kerning was applied only to necessary pairs to prevent unattractive gaps in text flow.
A spacing and kerning scheme was engineered so that specific character combinations produce decorative patterns beyond ordinary text use.