Blaze Type Foundry

Meet the jury for the first Ignition Award!

Deadline : 31 of July.

If you’re studying type design — this one’s for you.

We’re launching the Ignition Award: our annual scholarship for type design students worldwide. Five laureates selected each year. No ranking, no hierarchy — every winner is equal.

✦ €1,000 cash, unrestricted
✦ 6 months mentorship with our team
✦ Option to distribute on blazetype.eu (not mandatory)

You don’t need a commercial release. You don’t need to be at a famous school. You need a typeface worth showing and a clear point of view.

Open call: April 10 → July 31
All nationalities welcome.

https://blazetype.eu/ignition-award

Jury for this year :  .otf 
 .hugues Matthieu Salvaggio

        

Type in use by
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A for the Thresholds of Existence by Jan Söffner. A question of what is real is no longer the no-brainer it once was.
Art direction: Michele Wetherbee .design

Typeface: Area Inktrap by graphicdesigncommunity

Fusion Grotesk in use by .studio’s refresh for .matches pulls forward the brand’s 60s and 70s designs, when Swiss Modernist thinking had filtered into its packaging.⁠
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The Melbourne-based studio set the new wordmark in Fusion Grotesk from Blaze Type, chosen for the small grotesque quirks in its lowercase ‘l,’ ‘t’ and ‘a.’ Ms Redheads sits alongside it, simplified but unmistakable, her hair reintroduced as a flowing graphic that flickers across the lower half of every pack like a flame.⁠
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A flexible grid holds the system together across formats as different as a slim box of long matches and a four-kilogram bag of charcoal – and absorbs the dense regulatory copy required, even the smallest matchbox.⁠

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CREDITS⁠
Design: .studio⁠
Brand: .matches⁠
Typography: Fusion by

Cant get enough of Balete available on blazetype.eu

otf Balete is a typeface evoked by the eerie structure of the native balete tree, infamous in Philippine folklore for being a dwelling place of supernatural beings. Characterized by dangling roots which the hemiepiphytic species uses to strangle and eventually consume its host tree victim, the letterforms feature creeping, slender terminals that emerge from twisting stems, wrought from the illusion of fluid calligraphy without the presence of a single curved line.

Get it now at blazetype.eu/typefaces/balete

filipino type63 filipinotype filipino baybayin philippines philippinenativetree balete

Have you marveled at a real-life balete tree yet?

Lyst is our latest release by ❤️

💌 NEW RELEASE 💌 НОВИЙ РЕЛІЗ 💌

I am so excited to present to you my new typeface! Meet LYST! And now you can explore it with the incredible 🫰

LYST is a condensed serif shaped by the visual culture of the late 20th century. Rather than reviving a single source, it captures the broader editorial atmosphere of the period — where corporate clarity met magazine sophistication. The initial spark came from a familiar sight: mechanically condensed Times New Roman in everyday print. Instead of treating that compression as a flaw, Lyst takes it as a subtle point of departure.

LYST includes 27 styles across a broad weight range, featuring Roman, true Italic, and Slanted cuts. The Slanted styles are set at a precise 10° angle and carefully adjusted to maintain visual balance. Their presence reflects the original conceptual premise: if mechanical compression can define proportion, mechanical inclination can define movement. An alternative stylistic set with Italic Forms allows users to replace the Roman or Slanted structures with upright italic constructions for a more expressive tone.

And of course, LYST comes with extended Latin and Ukrainian Cyrillic support.

Barabbas in use by
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Affiche pour , un espace de création, lieu de rencontre et de restauration dans une ancienne usine à Rennes.

Le brief imposait d’utiliser un ton direct, du noir ainsi que le blanc du papier pour réaliser une affiche 40x60cm qui promeut un concert au sein du lieu.

→ Utilisation de Barabbas par

Projet fictif

.graphismecom .france

Slussen in use by .work
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Right now, my schedule is pretty packed…

I’ve been juggling client work alongside several personal projects. Among these various projects, I had the pleasure of hosting my first online workshop with

if you’re interested, the waitlist link is in my bio 😀

While prepping for it, I got to experiment with the blend shape tool, which lets you morph between two paragraphs. I ended up creating a bunch of variations of the same typographic animation, just for fun.

Type: Slussen
Software: .app



[motion design, graphic design, typography, visual art, experimental, minimalism, abstract, creative process,
type design, kinetic type, motion type, digital art, creative coding, type animation, generative art, motiongraphic design, contemporary design, motion edit, visual motion, digital creation, modern art, animation design, esthetic]

Thanks to for the find! built ’s brand by ignoring what AI is supposed to look like.⁠
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The Toronto-based studio avoided gradients, glowing orbs and neural network abstractions. Instead, they started with a question: what does using Howie actually feel like? The answer – relief, satisfaction and a conspiratorial wink – led to a fashion-forward aesthetic with people at its centre.⁠
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The strategic move was reclaiming a word competitors avoid. While AI tools cluster around assistant and copilot, newkid positioned Howie as ‘The People’s Secretary’ – a title carrying weight from its use in government positions like Secretary of State, reframed for contemporary accessibility.⁠
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Typography builds from Blaze Type’s Slussen family, chosen for its industrial feel and fashion sensibility. The colour palette deliberately abandons typical tech blues for something warmer and more distinct.⁠
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Explore the full case study at our link in bio.⁠
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CREDITS⁠
Design: ⁠
Brand: ⁠
Typography: Slussen family by and OCR A by American Type Founders⁠
Motion: ⁠
Photography: ⁠
Photo Production: ⁠
Video Director: ⁠
Video Production:

Sature Rounded 👕 .ater
Black and white tees.
Font family available at  

Fade to round 🙃
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Sature font in use 📕

Pedagogies of Tr****ti Liberation by Maria Clara Araújo Dos Passos

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« Pedagogies of Tr****ti Liberation is a transformative work that unpacks the intricate relationship between education, identity, and the socio-political movements surrounding Brazil’s tr****ti community. English and German translations are published. »

Publication: Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Editor: Daniel Neugebauer
Managing editors: Marine Lucina, Eric Otieno Sumba
Translation: Natália Affonso / Charlotte Thießen
Copyediting: Jess Oliveira, Khira Jordan, Johanna Schindler
Foreword: Jurema Mombaça
Afterword: Luce deLire
Design & Layout: , Chiara Fi**ne for Archive Books
Printing & Binding: Gallery Print

Thank you for the creative team for the use of Sature 👏🙏💥

Sature font family available on and
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