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Petar04

by Machalski
Individual Styles from $19.00 USD
Complete family of 5 fonts: $69.00 USD
The Petar04 Font Family was designed by Mateusz Machalski and published by Machalski. Petar04 contains 5 styles and family package options. More about this family

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PETAR_04 is inspired by the lettering I revisit every year on the Petar Hektorović ferry operated by Jadrolinija. The typography used in wayfinding is simple, technical, and entirely driven by function and ease of reproduction with stencils. These are letters made without aesthetic ambition, yet carrying a very distinct character. This starting point was remixed through the lens of the island of Vis, a place marked by its military past, where typography served as a tool: fast, sharp, direct, often even “brutal” in its form. In this project, I kept that raw, uncompromising quality, translating it into a contemporary language. The typeface can be described as monospace, built on a grid and shaped by pronounced stencil cuts that define its rhythm and functional tone. Design team: Mateusz Machalski, supported by: Weronika Kanigowska & Małgorzata Bartosik.

Designers: Mateusz Machalski

Foundry: Machalski

MyFonts debut: Mar 31, 2026

Petar04

About Machalski

Dr hab. Mateusz Machalski, Associate Professor (b. 1989) – Vice-Rector for Artistic Affairs at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Designer, typographer, lecturer and researcher specializing in visual communication and graphic design. He graduated with Rector’s Honours from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2009–2014), where he currently teaches at the Multimedia Artistic Creation Studio. Named Designer of the Year 2019 at the Polish Graphic Awards, he has been repeatedly awarded in national and international competitions, including KTR, Ascender 2018 – Type Directors Club New York, MUSTHAVE, The DieLine, Red Dot Design, The Best of Design 2018 – Klub Twórców Reklamy, and Animator 2020 – DESIGN ALIVE. He is a five-time recipient of the Polish Ministry of Culture’s scholarship, a laureate of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s scholarship for outstanding young researchers, and of the “Young Poland” programme by the National Centre for Culture. He was awarded the Centennial of Regained Independence Medal by the President of Poland. He is a curator and member of the programme board of the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, and Art Director of the magazines newonce paper and Warsawholic. He has created more than 80 typeface families – including numerous corporate and multi-script designs – and over 200 visual identities for companies, institutions and cultural events. His fonts are distributed through platforms such as Google Fonts, Adobe and Monotype, and his clients include leading Polish and global brands. He has led teams digitizing key works of Polish typography, including “Półtawski Nowy”, “BRYGADA 1918” (launched at the Presidential Palace), and carried out the long-term “Bona Nova” project together with Andrzej Heidrich – the designer of Polish banknotes. He co-created Typoteka – the first Polish index of typography (1474–2024). Co-founder of the first Polish type foundry – Capitalics. He is also the author of numerous texts, articles and exhibitions on graphic design and visual culture, as well as the “Creative Typography” course published by Design Practice. He conducts research projects, workshops and lectures at universities and conferences in Poland and abroad.

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