A recent rebranding campaign for Karma Kebab, a restaurant located in Amsterdam Noord, caught our attention with its fresh graphics and compelling use of our Kraai font. The designer behind this identity is Lennert Stok (AKA DROOWLEN), with whom we recently had the following exchange.

Due to the abundance of single-weight fonts in the Brutal Types catalog, some might assume we lack the capacity to develop fully fledged type families. The complexity of the typefaces available at re-type.com, however, demonstrates otherwise.

Graphic design runs in Floor Wesseling’s blood; it was passed down from father to son. Just like his father, Rolf, Floor Wesseling studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. He runs a nine-person creative design studio based in Amsterdam. Yves Peters sat down with him for a video interview.

Brutal Types has printed a limited run of T-shirts, now available for a short time. If you’re in the The Hague area and would like to get one, please contact us directly.

We’re thrilled to share that Brutal Types has been interviewed by The Brand Identity! In this feature, we discuss the ideas and research behind our ongoing project to uncover and revive Europe’s forgotten interwar letterforms.

After six months of intense work, we are proud to present Brutal Types—a collection of display fonts inspired by the lettering works created by designers and architects associated with the avant-garde movements of the interwar period.