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ABOUT

Type Mafia (was: DolWork) [Gerben Dollen]

Type Mafia is a young design studio in Amsterdam specializing in type design. One of its members is Gerben Dollen (b. 1982, Almelo, The Netherlands), who studied graphic design in Groningen. During a study exchange at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, he became interested in typeface design while attending Max Kisman's FontLab class. Dollen completed an MA in Typeface Design in 2007 at the University of Reading. Today he works from his studio Type Mafia.

In 2010, Type Mafia published the 12-style humanist sans family Actium by Gerben Dollen.

Gerben invented Smart Capo: a feature that automatically activates once you type an uppercase letter together with a number. When a capital letter is sat next to a numeral, Smart Capo converts the letter to a mid-cap --- a contemporary alternative to small caps --- and the default old-style numeral to a lining numeral. Actium's mid-caps and lining numerals have been designed with the same height (between cap and x-height) so they sit comfortably next to each other and fit more harmoniously into text.

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