Based on the logo’s custom lettering, the face translates into both a mono and proportional regular typeface. It has stiff wood-like characteristics, with rational decision-making in its terminals. WOODWORK uses this face as the brand’s main text typeface. Everything from letters to business cards should be set in this font. It can, however, be combined with its Mono-counterpart. You’ll find the complete branding here.

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ABCO Bénédict is a three-day revival excercise sourced from an 18th century document found in Château de Monbazillac. Due to a lack of high DPI reference, and small pointsize, the redrawn letters embody their bleeding edges and wonky straights.

Bénédict features a semi-complete glyphset with support for most Western-European languages and is available for free upon request. Please send us an email hello@aboutcontact.com for more info.

Design: Martijn Mertens
Spacing and Kerning: Martijn Mertens
Production: About Contact (Martijn Mertens)

Designed in between projects over a period of a year, Automotive is a next step in our journey in learning and breaking type rules. This neo-grotesque display-turned-body typeface collects distinct features from incised serifs to geometric sans serifs. With almost as much time spent trying to dissect Neue Haas Grotesk's decisions as actually designing, this family has been meticulously crafted to ensure even colouration for an optimal reading experience in long text applications.

Supported languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Creek, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, indonesian, Irish, italian, Jamaican, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Maori, Moldovan, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Venetian, Walloon, Welsh, Zulu

Design: Martijn Mertens
Spacing and Kerning: Martijn Mertens
Production: About Contact (Martijn Mertens)

ABCO Outdoor is a bespoke typeface designed for art director and photographer Usman Abdul. The family was inspired by arabic LED-screens, a reference also to be found throughout his branding and website. Outdoor exists out of 2 weights, with integrated Arabic logo and colour emoji-support. You'll find it live on www.usmanabdul.be.

Metal Mono is a mono-width family inspired by phototypesetting — a technique in which subtle weight inconsistencies are the result of the over- or under exposing of the film or paper. With 5 styles, ranging from 200 up to 600, each font is at a different stage of its exposure. The typeface is part of a bigger branding project done for Metal, and serves as the bespoke face for the Antwerp-based photography studio.

Caroline Bossans is Caroline Bosman's bespoke brand typeface. As the brand's center, the display face is used throughout all digital and print applications. it's designed by Martijn Mertens while still at Mutant™, with creative and design direction by Frank Schouwaerts. This typeface is part of the bigger branding, which you can find here.

AC Duss Sans is Martena Duss' bespoke typeface. It's friendly, bubbly yet active. It's inspired by DIY fonts, with exaggerated horizontal and overal monolinear strokes in unexpected places. The tiddles, periods and accents are oversized, a reference to Martena's child-like perspective on her world.