The WE in We Love Fonts reflects how we work: together
Together we build beautiful and high quality fonts. We are professionals, experts and passionated about type – or in other words: we love fonts – founded by Olli Meier.
Together we build beautiful and high quality fonts. We are professionals, experts and passionated about type – or in other words: we love fonts – founded by Olli Meier.
Type-Design:
Neue DIN (among Andreas Frohloff and Hendrik Weber, published by Fontwerk)
McQueen (among Loris Olivier, Noheul Lee and Katja Schimmel, published by Fontwerk)
Vary (published by Monotype)
Setra (coming soon)
Font Engineering – Retail:
Pangea 3.0, McQueen 2.0, Neue DIN, Push, Hamster (Color Variable Font), Nice, Vary, among others.
Font Engineering – Custom:
Metabo, Deutsche Welle, Dräger, Anton.app, Trixie, Seibert, among others.
Quality Assurance:
Helvetica Now, Neue Frutiger World, FF Real, FF Mark, Neue Plak, Placard Next, Ambiguity, Tazugane, Seol Sans, Albertus Nova, Terry Junior, among others.
Software-Engineering:
Fontra (extend features, backend for Glyphs app, documentation – February 2024 until March 2025)
Glyphs (Unittests – 2022)
Glyphs app plugin 'Nodes close to zones'
FontDev.app (browser-based font post production tool)
FontFamilyViewer (web app: drop a whole font family for a a glyph overview)
fontSpector (Font QA tool (successor to fontbakery))
Minor contributions to fonttools and fontbakery
A post production software for Monotype (internal use only)
Microsite neuedin.com
Microsite hamsterfont.com
Design-Awards:
RedDot Design, awwwards, ADC*E Award, ADC Bronze Award, Communication Arts Award of Excellence, German Design Award, among others.
Memberships:
Unicode (life-time member)
Buchstabenmuseum
Mentors during his career (so far):
Dave Opstad (one of the inventors of Unicode)
Steve Matteson (Microsoft's Aptos, Monotype's Futura Now, Open Sans)
Andreas Frohloff (16 years lead of type Department FontFont, Fontwerk's Neue DIN)
Just van Rossum (a Dutch typeface designer, software developer and professor)
Fun-facts:
He lives on an organic farm in Melchow near Berlin (Germany) and has cycled over 3000km to the North Cape a couple years ago.
Retail Partner — Fontwerk
Retail Partner — Production Type
Retail Partner — Show Me Fonts
Type-Design — Ralph du Carrois