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Danish type foundry specialising in bespoke and retail typefaces.

Vesterbro, Copenhagen
Joined October 2010
New project! Say hello to ShieldFont, an open-source collaborative project by S&A Studio and Playtype: a typeface designed to protect written content by poisoning unauthorized AI training. Read more and download: shieldfont.org/
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Publish Gothic in use by @louismontez in FRAGMENT OF TIME, as part of his final bachelor project at @kglakademi. We love seeing our typefaces put to use in printed matter and especially in beautifully designed books like this.
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Berlingske in use at The Met, NYC! @metmuseum If you are in the states, don't miss out on the exhibition Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art. Super neat work by June Yoon
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Playtype is looking for a full-time graphic designer to join our office in Copenhagen. Please send an email marked ‘Graphic Designer’ with application and attached portfolio to fonts@playtype.com. We look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely – Playtype
GLYPH IN FOCUS: INVERTED QUESTION MARK [U+00BF]⁠ ⁠ The inverted question mark are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative sentences or clauses in Spanish. The initial marks are mirrored at the end of the sentence by the 'ordinary' question mark.
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Italian Plate No2 family put to good use by @kilroydenmark⁠ ⁠ 'We go beyond!' boasts Kilroy. Kilroy uses Italian Plate No2 Black Italic and Italian Plate No2 Expanded across their content. ⁠
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Bespoke typeface: Generation Amazing Display ⁠ ⁠ Generation Amazing is a movement that revolves around one common goal: Using football to empower our youth and improve our world. They operate under the philosophy of ‘passing it on’ referring to football terminology.⁠ ⁠
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TIDAL. Typed in Nationale.⁠ ⁠ Music streaming subscription service @tidal is using our Nationale typeface across their platform and in their marketing content. Available here: playtype.com/typefaces/natio…
GLYPH IN FOCUS: Æ [U+1D01]⁠ ⁠ Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the full status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese.
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Nationale in use by O.C.E.⁠ ⁠ The @o.c.e._official is born out of a love and fascination for the Scandinavian aesthetics and way of life, O.C.E. wanted to bring a more authentic Nordic look and feel to their branding. ⁠
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Zichtbaar in use for the newest issue of DANSK magazine⁠
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GLYPH IN FOCUS: INTERROBANG [U+203D]⁠ ⁠ The interrobang is an unconventional punctuation mark used in various written languages to combine the functions of the question mark and the exclamation mark.
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