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Our trial fonts cover all latin accented characters in order to enable testing of our fonts in multi-national text context and not only A-Z.

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It means “End User License Agreement.” It’s the terms and conditions that define the use of our typefaces, and which protects the client-foundry-relationship. You can find the entire EULA at the bottom of this page. The terms for all our customers are the same and cannot be modified. Please note that by downloading and/or installing any of our typefaces, you automatically agree to our EULA.

• Typeface is the collective name of a family of related Fonts.
• Fonts are the digital files organized in weights, widths, and styles that together constitute a Typeface.
• License is the permission to use a Typeface on specified type of media.
• Licensee/License Owner/Client is the entity that commissions the design work in which the typeface is used. This entity pays for and owns the License. Hereafter the “License Owner.”
• Company Size is the total amount of staff working for the organization of the License Owner.
• License Tier is the size of a License, determined by the License Owner’s company size, web traffic, app downloads, etc.
• Design Agency/Designer/Design Studio is the entity that provides the design service to the License Owner. Hereafter “Designer.”
• Subcontractor means the third party using the Fonts on behalf of the License Owner. The Designer is a Subcontractor of the License Owner.
• Custom Typeface is an existing typeface that's modified for you.
• Bespoke Typeface is a new typeface that's been designed from scratch.

It’s the client: The business entity who commissions the design work, and for who the design work is in use. It is not the agency or individual creative who is producing the work.

We know what you’re thinking, and you’re right: Only in situation where an agency designs its own identity is the agency both commissioner and client ;-)

No. The agency is merely working with the typefaces while commissioned by a client. In no situation is the agency the License Owner, which has to pay for the typefaces.

The opposite is true, actually: The agency should receive a big bouquet of beautiful-smelling flowers from us as a THANK YOU for choosing to work with us, and convincing the client to use our typefaces. You're the best.

Yes! In some cases, it might be easiest for you to act as a payment facilitator for your client (the License Owner). You can also prepare a “Cart” for your client, and send them a “Cart Link”—this lets the client check out and pay.

If you’re the only agency working for your client, you’ll be covered by their license.

However, if your client employs more (than one) third party to create work for them, the client will need to purchase the Subcontractor add-on. This add-on allows the font files to be shared with more than one subcontractor.

We offer “Limited Licenses” directly via the website. You can choose the fonts you need and add the individual licenses depending on your intended use (for Print, Web, Social Media, or Product/App). The licenses are priced based on the company size of the License Owner and have to be upgraded if the company size grows.

→ A “Limited License” is mostly used by small companies, cultural institutions, and individuals.

As an alternative licensing options, we offer an “Unlimited License” (a.k.a the Enterprise License, or Corporate License). It bundles Print, Web, Social Media, and Product/App, as well as the Subcontractor add-on, into one “care-free package” for a one time fee. It’s unlimited, unrestricted, and valid in perpetuity.

→ An “Unlimited License” is mostly used by bigger companies or startups with fast growth ambitions, in order to not have to deal with growth monitoring and license upgrading.

If you purchased a “Limited License” via our website, the License has to be upgraded once your License metrics (your company size) increases. You can add Licenses or upgrade the License tier any time after your initial purchase, via your customer panel. If you purchased an “Unlimited License,” you won’t have to ever upgrade your License.

It’s an add-on that you can purchase in addition to your main typeface License(s). It allows a License Owner to share the typeface with any of their subcontractors during their working relationship.

When it comes to stating your “Company Size,” select the number of employees working for your company across all offices.

It allows the License Owner to install the font files on a desktop computer, in order to design printed and digital images and documents.

It allows for embedding the font files into one website.

It allows for embedding the font files into a mobile app or digital product.

It’s an add-on to the Print License. It covers the use of the typefaces embedded into digital images and videos on channels like Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and Youtube.

It allows for any kind of broadcasting bigger than social media, such as streaming (Netflix, Amazon, HBO, SKY), TV, cinema, video advertising, video billboards, or video clips longer than one minute. It is a one time fee. Please get in touch for pricing.

If the typeface is used in the word mark of a company, an additional fee applies. This fee depends on the revenue of the company, and is only charged for companies with $5 million+ gross revenue. Please get in touch for pricing.

Yes. You’ll need a Desktop License in order to create those file types in the first place, but we do not charge additional costs for embedding the typefaces in PDFs or eBooks.

Yes! You’ll need a special License for this. Please get in touch for pricing with a description of the game, the distribution platform, and the number of users.

There are many interesting ways. Please read our guide and tutorial on Using Variable Fonts on the Web.

A variable font is a special type of font file, which contains multiple fonts within it. They’re interesting because this technology essentially enables static fonts to become dynamic and shift their appearance.

Variable fonts…
× Are supported by all major browsers
× Have a smaller download size compared to many static fonts
× Consist of just one font file, containing all styles
× Help address accessibility and readability issues via context-responsive type display settings
× Allow for typographic forms of interactivity
× With them, you can animate typography. See for yourself by streaming one of our variable fonts directly on this website, or using our Dinamo Pipeline and Dinamo Font Gauntlet.

Older versions of macOS had trouble rendering variable glyphs that contain components, such as letters with äccéñts. We recommend updating to the latest version of macOS, on which the variable font support is much better.

Our catalogue of Retail Typefaces consists of fully developed and original typefaces for Web, Print, and Mobile Apps. We try to retain a good balance in terms of typeface genres, and the reasons for making and publishing them. All of our Retail Typefaces are constantly updated according to the highest production standards. They cover a wide range of styles and languages, and often come with additional stylistic alternates, too.

Our Early Access Typefaces are also finalized and ready-to-use typefaces, but they’re not yet fully released. Some of them are scheduled for release and waiting in line to be published. Others may not be intended for public release for various reasons. But you can request—and potentially use—any of our Early Access Typefaces for special projects. Some of you might be familiar with a couple of the Early Access Typefaces from what we previously called “Dinamo Standards”—our label for revivals and interpretations.

We think typefaces are not only a tool to design but also a tool to start interesting conversations. By requesting a typeface and telling us a little bit about how you intend to use it, it feels less like a cold transaction—“Money for Product”—and more like an intentional exchange, where we can learn more about each other and our design choices.

Another reason is that cool typefaces burn out quickly. Therefore we’re trying to protect our typefaces from being “swallowed-up” and contextualized too heavily by a handful of large project alone. It feels best to keep the first steps of a typeface slow but steady. We want to give smaller projects the stage first, before the typeface gets released publicly and starts its unpredictable journey.

2013, in Amsterdam.

Yes! Usually, we’re booked out already one year in advance. Please get in touch via jobs@abcdinamo.com

Yes! Student groups or individuals are more than welcome to visit us. Just get in touch.

It’s a virtual space to test drive internally developed type design tools or plugins—dreamt up to help or confuse the modern type designer.

As a counterpart to our “type software”, we invented “Dinamo Hardware”: a separate platform to translate our type design thinking into tangible objects and their production.

“Different Times” comes from the title of Johannes’ bachelor thesis at the Rietveld Academie, in which he wrote about what it means to be a type designer today, holding a mouse in our hands.

Two years after the fact, we had the idea to make a “statement” t-shirt, a reminder that “different times” ask for “different approaches”—very cheesy. The shirt eventually featured five different digital versions of the ubiquitous Times typeface: Times Ten, Times New Roman, Times LT, AT CG Times, and MT Times Bitmapped—all of which are more or less the same and are therefore undermine the shirt’s message.

For some t-shirts in the series, the template was modified according to what was going on in our own lives or in the culture at large when it was published. Hence “Difficult Times” (after Trump’s presidential election) and “Spiritual Times” (on the occasion of a short stay in Los Angeles). So far, five editions have been released with a print run of 120 each, as well as an anniversary edition in collaboration with the Danish label Wood Wood.

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Purchase the t-shirt

Yes! Once you’ve purchased Early Access Typefaces you can simply re-download your order through your customer profile to grab the latest font files.