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The full family comes complete with six weights, a mono cut, and not one but three styles of italics: a True Italics, a Slanted variation, and a Turbo Slant for whenever you need to really emphasize something.

It’s also packed with stylistic sets, special features, and a variety of figure styles. Let’s dive in!

Synt has been with us for many years, developed and fine tuned by the eyes and mind of team member Kaj Lehmann. We’re proud to release his full family today on the occasion of the launch of the new issue of music magazine zweikommasieben, the pages of which Synt found its first home many moons ago 🥺

When young Kaj was a student in 2017 reading De Vinne’s words in the ECAL library, he noticed that they were set in a neat, modern typeface of their own. This unnamed body copy became the starting point for an exploration of modern faces, eventually leading Kaj to Synt’s base structure.

You’ll notice Synt has a particular rhythm. Its unique flow comes from the fact its reference material was a form of unitized type: De Vinne often used metal-cast letters with specified widths to speed up the typesetting process, allowing typesetters to compose justified text by hand quickly.

Synt takes the functional logic of these systems into digital space, celebrating the unitized rhythm as a beautiful design feature in its own right (with the added bonus of translating seamlessly to pixels for hinting).

RHYTHM

Synt has a “parametric” rhythm, meaning there’s an identical distance between and within every vertical stem. Its strict unitization plays a huge part of why the typeface feels so, ehem, staccato 🙄

Speed

Turn up the speed of Synt with our variable slant modulator, moving between an exaggerated slanted cut of 32° and a still 0°. Like revving the handle of a motorbike.

STYLISTIC SETS

Synt features a wide range of stylistic sets for modulating its look. Alternate dieresis lets a user typeset with narrower leading. And Beethoven alternates let you seamlessly toggle to musical notation. There’s also a schoolbook set plus Dinamo house-style Butterfly Serifs to choose from.

Alternates

Synt comes packed with musical glyphs and streaming symbols that have been designed to suit the font’s vibe. There’s also a many angled eye roll and a “smashed beet” (naming c/o Tina) for other occasions.

SYNT IN USE

Sitting in our Early Access drawers for some time, Synt has already found itself in a variety of gorgeous in use situations beyond the pages of zweikommasieben — including for Manhattan’s 52 Walker gallery identity and the stage of a Louis Vuitton show in Seoul with all members of BTS.

On Friday we celebrated the launch of issue 28 of zweikommasieben — and the release of Synt — at kwia bar in Berlin, a beautiful, queer listening room for modern rituals. Sharing some photos I took below:

That’s it for today. See you soon.

Love,
Dinamo 🐛