Popular Machalski fonts.
Alfabet is the result of over 3 years of work on a typeface inspired by Swiss and German designers & researchers. The main idea was to create a sans-serif with geometric and strong feeling. Whole family will work wherever we want to emphasize modernity and a rational way of visual thinking. Alfabet will be perfect choice for multiscript branding purposes, all styles support Latin (+Vietnamese), Greek and Cyrillic scripts (with Ukrainian,Bulgarian and Serbian forms). The whole family consists of 20 styles – 10 weights and matching italics. In addition to the rich set of characters, Alfabet includes Alternates, Superscript, Subscript, Ligatures, Arrows set and 7 different styles of digits.
Afronaut PRO (New version of typeface published in 2019) was inspired by vernacular Latin & Arabic typography in St. Louis (on Senegal-Mauretania Border, Africa). Geometric forms working well and contrasting with smooth, round elements. After reading “Afronautics – from Zambia to the Moon” by Bartek Sabela (about Zambian conquest of space) a breif was set to create typeface that looks like mix between: vernacular Arabic script, futuristic typography and some special lettering that I found in Africa during my travels to Guinée, Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania and West Sahara. Afronaut has seven weights, also many letters have 3 different forms. Afronaut PRO can work as regular version of my Yalla Typeface.
Podium Sharp is Extended version of DUDU typeface designed in 2012. After many years I’ve decided to rebuild and develop this typeface by adding new masters and weights. Finally PODIUM Sharp consist of 234 styles: from ultra compressed hairline to extra expanded heavy. Main purpose of this project was idea to make hybrid between different modular and geometric woodtypes that I found in old polish specimens: Rex, Blok, Bacarat etc. Thanks to big range of different styles, PODIUM will be perfect choice for visual identities, posters and display usage. For better comfort of using PODIUM I’ve prepared new idea of styles naming based on Frutigres’s Universe and Climbing evaluation. First digit means width and the second weights of style. (So for example style 1.1 is ultra compressed hairline, 6.5 is something like regular and 9.13 is ultra expanded heavy.
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Machalski
Type Designer
Mateusz Machalski
Dr hab. Mateusz Machalski B. 1989; studied at the Faculty of Graphic arts in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2009–2014) completed with Rector's distinction. He works at the Faculty of Graphics in the Studio of Multimedia Artistic Creation. Selected as the Designer of the Year 2019 in the Polish Graphic Awards. Winner of the scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists. Five-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture. Winner of the "Młoda Polska" scholarship of the National Center for Culture. Member of the board of the Association of Applied Graphic Designers. Member of the program board of the International Poster Biennale. Member of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale). Winner of the Best of Design 2018 award - Klub Twórców Reklamy. Featured as "Ascender 2018" by Type Directors Club New York. He received the "Animator 2020" award in the DESIGN ALIVE competition. Decorated by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Medal of the Centenary of Regained Independence. Artistic director of "newonce.paper" and "Warsawholic" magazines. Author of over 30 type families, numerous corporate and multi-script typefaces and over 100 visual identifications of companies, institutions and events. Team leader in revival project "BRYGADA 1918" which premiered at the Presidential Palace with the participation of the President. Author of the intergenerational Bona Nova project carried out together with Andrzej Heidrich – the designer of Polish banknotes. Co-founder of the BORUTTA creative group, RESPECT WWA foundation. Author of numerous texts and articles about graphic design, visual culture and typography. Co-author of the TYPOTEKA.PL – Polish Typography Index and numerous exhibitions and cultural events. Parallel to design work, he conducts research projects, workshops and lectures in Poland and abroad.
Monotype Fonts
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