BRUTAL TYPES: UNEARTHING EUROPE'S FORGOTTEN INTERWAR LETTERFORMS

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Paula Mastrangelo and Ramiro Espinoza launched “Brutal Types” as a separate foundry from Retype to focus on expressive display fonts inspired by Europe's interwar lettering, especially the Dutch avant-garde. Drawing on fieldwork, archives, and overlooked sources, they and their collaborators reinterpret historic alphabets into contemporary typefaces, offering designers distinctive alternatives for branding and media while planning future releases and a book on monumental Dutch lettering.