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ABOUT

Type Mates

German type foundry, est. 2015 by Jakob Runge and Nils Thomsen, and based in Hamburg. Their typefaces:

• Comspot and Comspot Tec (2015): Comspot is a rounded and characterful typeface mixed with some typewriter flavour and human touch. The font is especially designed for hard- and software dealer who need some attractive figures to sell their products. In June 2015 Nils Thomsen designed this font as a corporate font for the Hamburg based hard- and software reseller CPN Cooperation Network GmbH and its Partner Comspot. The client wants an individual typeface for all media. It should work in reading sizes and of course also display very distinctive in larger sizes. Comspot can do!
• The Conto family by Nils Thomsen: Conto Compressed, Conto Narrow, Conto Condensed, all made in 2015.
• Jabana by Nils Thomson, 2014-2015. This includes Jabana Alt (2015) and Jabana Extras (2015). A compressed rounded font family, with dingbats, designed for menus. It is the first font in his own foundry, Nils Types, est. 2013. It was inspired by having a Schorle at Hamburg's coffee bars.
• Pensum Pro (2016). An 18-style text family with large x-height and considerable contrast. Followed in 2017 by Pensum Display, its wedge serif sharp-edged flashy companion. Pensum Stencil was added in 2021.
• Urby Basic (2017).
• Cherry (2017). A custom typeface designed for the brand new MX Board 5.0 keyboard for gaming enthusiasts.
• In 2019, Jakob Runge, Nils Thomsen and Lisa Fischbach released Halvar and wrote: Halvar, a German engineered type system that extends to extremes. With bulky proportions and constructed forms, Halvar is a pragmatic grotesk with the raw charm of an engineer. A type system ready to explore, Halvar has 81 styles, wide to condensed, hairline to black, roman to oblique and then to superslanted, structured into three subfamilies: the wide Breitschrift, regular Mittelschrift and condensed Engschrift. Halvar Stencil, which was released simultaneously, is a German engineering stencil font family.
• Gratimo Classic and Grotesk (2021), and Grato Classic and Grotesk (2021). Four sans families, with Classic referring to more humanist forms; Grato is the geometric twin, while Gratimo is more economic. Design by Jakob Runge, with contributions by Mona Franz, Irene Vlachou (consukting on Greek), Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky (consulting on Cyrillic), Donny Truong (consulting on Vietnamese), Christoph Koeberlin (hinting) and Igino Marini (spacing and kerning). Grato Marker was added by Teja Smrekar in 2022.
• In 2022, Philipp Neumeyer released Juneau, a friendly geometric workhorse sans for Latin and Curillic, at TypeMates.

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INTERNAL LINKS
German type scene ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿