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Typeverything [Andrei Robu]

Andrei Robu is a super-artist, award-winning photographer, art director, illustrator, type designer and rising star based in Barcelona. Andrei started freelancing ca. 2002 shortly landing clients like Sprite and Coca-Cola. In 2006 he became Chief Graphic Designer at Leo Burnett, Bucharest, Romania. In 2008 he joined Acme as a managing partner and design director. After three and a half years he left Acme and started his own practice. In 2014 he relocated to Barcelona where he works together with his partner Andreea Robescu. During his career he founded a few platforms for promoting other talents: Designers Go To Heaven (2009-2017), Calligraphica (2012-2017), Typeverything (2011).

Andrei creates key visuals for branding, packaging, events and artist collections. He has worked with clients such as Adobe, Apple, Bloomberg, Nike, Jordan Brand, Stella Artois, Dailies, Fenwick London, Mastercard, Vodafone, VISA Epos, Coca-Cola, ESPN Magazine, Billboard, Wired, The Golden Globes, Exxon, Toyota, Hiscox.

In 2011, he set up Typeverything in Barcelona. Typeverything features Andrei Robu's typefaces as well as those of other type designers such as Cahya Sofyan, Felipe Calderon, Natanael Gama, Adam Fathony, Matteo Broillet, Simon Walker, Drew Melton, Jason Carne, Lewis McGuffie, and Fer Cozzi.

In his early type designs, we find extraordinary colored geometric experimental typefaces made in 2007 such as Idea, Trick Fun, Trick Squared, Trick (wow!).

In 2009, he made Bs, Merci, Metropolis, Origami, and Think. In 2011, this was followed by Funky. These early typefaces are not featured in his foundry, Typeverything.

His commercial typefaces:

• Berry (2022). A seven-style+variable font family that oozes mischief and flexes its muscles.
• Boldoni (2021). A fat face family.
• Bourbon St (2020). A flashy experimental Marilyn-Monroe-just-walked-into-the-room kinda typeface.
• Brule (2020). A throwback to the larger-is-better 1970s.
• Champ (2021, by Cristi Bordeianu and Andrei Robu). A starkly incised display typeface family ranging from fashionable ultra-heavy to a flared thin. It includes a variable font as well.
• Choco or Robu Choco Script (2017). An upright signage script.
• Cottonhouse (2019). A Victorian typeface Cottonhouse by Andrei Robu, Kevin Cantrell and Arlo Vance.
• Deia (2021). Advertized as a 7-weights bracketed serif that will do wonders on packaging projects.
• Faroe (2022). A 7-style+variable font: a contemporary take on the art-nouveau period.
• Fat Stencil Numerals (2016).
• Fitzroy Display (2014). This art deco typeface was co-designed with Kevin Cantrell for the Fitzroy Condos in New York.
• Flako Stencil.
• Friseur. A supermarket script based on the 18th-century English roundhand.
• Graf (2021). A very bold display and poster typeface that livens up the show with strategic ink traps.
• Kitsune (2015). A thin connected script typeface published at The Designers Foundry. Re-released in 2019 by Typeverything.
• Loggia (2020). A fashion mag typeface.
• Loto Sans (2021). A geometric sans family.
• Marques (2020). A luxurious display font.
• Misfits (2018). A blackletter typeface.
• Mochi (2021). An 8-style display sans with pointy terminals.
• Motorino (2016). A connected retro script typeface.
• Mr. Banks (2019) and Mr. Banks Serif (2020). Mr Banks is a stencil font.
• Palace (2022). Based on vintage luggage labels from The Belle Époque (1890-1910).
• Raval. A blackletter.
• Roa Display. An angular and angry wedge serif.
• Robu Bold. A retro signage script typeface originally created in 2010. Released in 2015 at The Designers Foundry. Re-released in 2019 at Typeverything.
• Robu Grotesk (2017).
• Robu Display (2017). In the fat didone genre.
• Robu Stencil (2017).
• Sharpie Pro (2020). A vernacular marker pen font.
• Sports Numerals or Robu Sports Numerals (2017).
• Vance Serif (2018). With Kevin Cantrell. They write: Vance Serif began as a proprietary typeface for Clayton Vance Architecture. Inspired by classical Roman architecture and proportions, Vance burgeoned from geometric angles and slants to decorative swashes and serifs to give life and nuance; architecture vivified by the human persona.
• Writer (2022). A graffiti font.
• Zufo (2017). A great children's book or comic strip typeface family.

Subpage with more experimental type. Flickr page. Behance link. Behance link for Typeverything. Old web site. Typeverything link.

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INTERNAL LINKS
Experimental type ⦿ Type design in Romania ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Typefaces related to origami ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Signage typefaces ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Athletic lettering faces ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Type design in Catalunya ⦿ Victorian typefaces ⦿ Fashion mag typefaces ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿ Graffiti fonts ⦿