“Double fronted” specimen booklet showing the Puffin, Puffin Display, Puffin Display Soft and Puffin Arcade type families, designed by Pieter van Rosmalen.

Specimen No 1 was our first comprehensive type specimen. To celebrate this occassion, we asked 14 friends to design specimen spreads for one of our type families to act as devider pages between the general type showings, style and character overviews. Also includes samples of custom typefaces and a preview of (then) upcoming work. Many thanks to our contributors Koen Geurts, René Knip, Max Kisman, Donald Beekman, Tobias Peier, Indra Kupferschmid, R2, Liza Enebeis & Marc van der Heijde, Léon & Loes, Dennis Koot, Bart de Haas, Jesse Skolnik, and Stefanie Bitzigeio.

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Five type specimens for the price of three! Get the Brando, Brando Arabic, Mala, Quinn and Dico type specimens for only € 15.—. It’s a steal!

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Specimen booklet for Brando by Mike Abbink showcasing the extensive family in airy sample designs of an excerpt of the “The Heart of Darkness”, a novella by Joseph Conrad from 1899 (including a Marlon Brando portrait, the eponym of the type family).

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Specimen booklet presenting the Arabic version of Brando following the conventions of the Naskh script. Typeface designed by Khajag Apelian, Wael Morcos and Mike Abbink.

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Specimen booklet for Pieter van Rosmalen’s Dico type suite, showing all eight sub families, 45 styles in total. The specimen is using Tibor Kalman’s quote “I’m not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me” throughout the entire booklet.

Specimen booklet for the extensive Mala type family, designed by Barbara Bigosińska.

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Specimen booklet showing the Quinn Text and Quinn Display type family, designed by Diana Ovezea.

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Lovely little specimen booklet for Florian Schick’s Trio Grotesk type family, showing the typeface in all upright styles, different sizes and with complete character-set in a low-lands-inspired two-colour design.

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“Enorm klein” (enormously small) is a collection of the biggest amongst the smallest and the smallest amongst the biggest. The booklet is entirely typeset in Capibara Classic, the precursor of the current Capibara family, as well as richly illustrated and decorated. Comes with a matching bookmark.

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