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ABOUT

Typoforge [Blazej Ostoja Lniski]

Blazej Ostoja Lniski (b. 1974, Czersk, Poland) specializes in painting and lithography. From 1994 until 1999, he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at he Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He founded the type foundry Typoforge.

Creator of Merlo (2014, inspired by a You And Me Monthly published by National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa; followed in 2015 by Merlo Round and in 2016 by Merlo Grotesque and Merlo Neue), Cervo (2014, a simple almost heartless sans that was inspired by a You And Me Monthly published by National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa that appeared from 1960 until 1973 in Poland), Cervo Neue (2016), Toppo (2014, a letterpress emulation family inspired by a You And Me Monthly published by National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa), Pekora and Pekora Slab (2014: inspired by a You And Me Monthly published by National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa (Poland) between May 1960 and December 1973), Rospi Clean (2014: inspired by the weekly Tygodnik Ilustrowany from 1933), Rospo Wood (2014: a worn letterpress typeface inspired by the weekly Tygodnik Ilustrowany (1933)), Lupo (2014), Kapra (2014) and Bobbin and Bobbin Cyrillic (2014, letterpress style), which were inspired by You And Me Monthly published by the (Polish) National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa which was active from 1960 until 1973. Kapra is beautiful---it has some of the masculinity of Impact and the naïveté of wood type. Other typefaces by him in 2014 include Skuul (a desperate cold war font inspired by a Letraset font from 1981), Blezja (inspired by a metal tin dated 1907, Potsdam), Greta (a roman typeface based on a prayer book from 1888), and Kleks (grunge typeface inspired by vernacular typography in Potsdam).

Typefaces from 2016: Cozza (a grungy typeface family based on the dry transfer architect set Unitras Letraset from the 1980s).

Typefaces from 2017: Merlo Neue Round, Kapra Neue (24 styles).

Typefaces from 2018: Gambero (a slab cousin of Kapra with a reversed lower case g), Kapra Neue Pro.

Typefaces from 2020: Tylbor (a 14-style monolinear almost DIN-like sans), Cervino (a 54-style sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Cervo Neue Condensed (18 styles).

You Work For Them link. Creative Market link. Behance link.

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EXTERNAL LINKS
Typoforge
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Behance page
Creative Market page
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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ The Polish type scene ⦿ Wood Type ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Letterpress ⦿