font_designer: Marit Otto

Beyond Babylon

Beyond Babylon font

Babylon was a civilisation that stretched from Bagdad to the Persian Gulf. There is an Old and new Babylonia, the era of Babylon civilization and the biblical Babylon. The oldest scriptures to be found...

Eurabia

Eurabia font

Eurabia – The actual typeface. Eurabia is a mixture of two origins. It proves not to be an easy fitting between the two cultures. This typeface is ahead of the issues at hand. It...

Democrazia

Democrazia font

Democrazia is the agreeable typeface. It is smoothly curved and has a soft and open character. She is named after the principal, we all cherish, Democracy rooted in the Greek civilisation in the year...

C-Nation

C-Nation font

Marit Otto about C-Nation: The building typeface. Although the 70ties were very liberating and progressive, still girls played mainly with dolls and sweet things and boys with all kinds of challenging stuff. They did...

Kosmique

Kosmique font

Kosmique is a worldly typeface. It has been around. It does not reveal one specific cultural aspect but reflects the aspects of many. A melting pot of characters in a straight jacked. The blend...

Jazmo

Jazmo font

Jazmo is an offspring of an assignment I did for a Dutch architect. A classic building and coincidently the place of my studio in my hometown Zwolle, Netherlands, needed to be renovated. My job...

Smooth Buggaloo

Smooth Buggaloo font

Just like my previous typefaces, my new one, Smooth Buggaloo, also finds its roots in music. The Boogaloo was a popular music style in the 60s, a mixture of Latin and Rock and Roll...

Le Rock

Le Rock font

Le rock is the newborn sister of my first typeface Jazmo and a relative of my music-inspired font family. Le Rock seems to wiggle and jiggle a little as if it invites you to...

Labyrindo

Labyrindo font

Labyrindo is inspired on the classic Labyrinth. The oldest known labyrinth is 3200 years old and is to be found in Greece. The mythological king Minos held the monstrous son of his wife ‘Minotaurus’...

Nipon

Nipon font

Nipon has an affiliation with the Far East. The first character I designed for this alphabet was the capital P. The stepped thin lines are linking to the Japanese characters and the circle shape...