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Soft Machine (or: Open Studio) [Mark Niemeijer]

Soft Machine (part of Open Studio) is a digital type foundry based in Deventer, The Netherlands, set up in 2017 by Mark Niemeijer. He writes: Architectural and industrial design movements are a big influence on the work of Soft Machine---De Stijl, Union des Artistes Modernes, Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne, Neues Bauen, structuralism, metabolism, and post-modernism. These are also reoccuring themes in the visual output.

Typefaces by Soft Machine:

  • Jos (2012).
  • Fade (2016). Commissioned.
  • Ijssel (2016). Commissioned.
  • Hauser (2017). A stick stencil typeface.
  • SM Maxeville (2017). A (ten style) compact typeface family inspired by Gerrit Rietveld, Jean Prouvé, De Stijl and Union des Artistes Modernes. Contains stencil styles. Followed by Maxeville Mono (2021).
  • Marres (2019). Commissioned.
  • Solaris (2020). A 6-style neo-grotesk with modulated contrast.
  • Stellage (2020). A 5-style wedge serif family that includes a few stencil styles.
  • Affairs (2021, +Monospace).

Instagram link for Soft Machine. Instagram link for Open Studio. Fonts in Use link. Github link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Soft Machine (or: Open Studio)
Behance page
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
Dutch type design ⦿ Wood Type ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ De Stijl and type design ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿








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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html