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PODIUM Soft

by Machalski
Individual Styles from $39.00 USD
Complete family of 13 fonts: $159.00 USD
The PODIUM Soft Font Family was designed by Mateusz Machalski and published by Machalski. PODIUM Soft contains 13 styles and family package options.

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PODIUM Soft is variations of PODIUM Sharp typeface designed in 2019. Family consist of 13 styles from ultra compressed to extra expanded. 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.

Designers: Mateusz Machalski

Publisher: Machalski

Foundry: Machalski

Design Owner: Machalski

MyFonts debut: Mar 20, 2020

PODIUM Soft

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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