The Dinamo Update Archive

Our Capsule Plaza Takeover @ Salone del Mobile Milano

New Release Gramercy is a Beautiful Serif with Three Subfamiles + Swashes

How Do You Install a Font on Your Computer?

What's the future of type? Erik Carter on DaFonts.com, the Monotype monopoly, and upending industry models

A Guide to OpenType Features

The Arizona Type Specimen 2 comes in a new palette of garden colours

Ginto Rounded is ABC Ginto's soft, friendly cousin

A new discount for indie ventures, cultural workers, non-profit orgs, and passion projects

On fonts, client work, hardware, editions, happenings, and accounting 2023

A Unitized reimagining of 19th Century “modern” faces for today’s fast-paced world of screens and streaming.

MIGLĖ Transforms Asfalt Letters into Silver Charms

A Perfect Garden transforms the items from our latest Hardware collection into the subject of a dark fable

Uniting fonts with furniture using the Dinamo x BNAG Connectors

Dinamo Hardware is back. Simon talks candles, charcoal body soap, and Ninja Turtles.

We're opening the doors of Dinamo Hardware again. And we're opening them wide.

We are investigating the creative world’s feelings towards money

What are the Walters doing this time? You decide.

Reimagining sketches by King Louis XIV’s royal typographer through the lens of a TiKTok content neighborhood

The Queen of scamming herself shares her feelings on our typefaces

A sturdy, confident fusion of classic Grotesk and Gothic styles, inspired by typefaces used in conceptual art catalogs in the 1960s

Fabian has a lot of storage problems. Online and off.

How do we design our typeface campaigns and release new fonts into the world?

Meet the Team: Erkin Karamemet on Designing Systems Font Repro

All the data, all the love

Got a yogurt bottle to design? Smash Diatype Rounded on it

Inviting a group of friend to design toothbrushes for us because its our bday

A five-color, flip book showcase of Arizona suitable for both adults and children

A friendly, flexible sans serif inspired by and envisioned for signage and digital operating systems

“Shielding agencies and brands from risk” with Font Shield Inc.

The team came together for the Fontstand Conference in the Hague

Two families that began in the same place but wandered off in entirely different directions

Inspired by a tool used to teach students how to draw letterforms

Not everybody in the love-sharing space called the internet loves Ginto as much as we do :(

Forget the Metaverse for a moment. Imagine instead a quiet library with stained glass windows.

Dinamo Variable Fonts Now on Cargo

A reinterpretation of light traps, available with or without the holes

Discussing the long road from know-nothing to guru with 15 other foundries

A mini italics tutorial by our in-house specialist Fabiola Mejía

A mural in sunny Paramaribo to celebrate Shortnotice joining as our new ADs

How can fonts be more accessible to students?

Activating stylistic sets on the web made easy

Modulating seamlessly from XXXX compressed to XXXX wide

We cut down our licensing terms from 12 pages to 4 😎

A multi-people, multi-width mega collaboration made by many eyes and many players

"The world doesn’t need more, it needs better"

A look at our company report a year after switching to a value-based licensing model

We made a MASCHINE Mk3 with Native Instruments

A “virtual sit-down” featuring a 3300 Rey floating through space

Modulating Gravity's design features

Font Partnership with Cargo Collective

We want Favorit to be a truly global font. Check out its most recent language extensions.

A slim all-genres-in-one font happy-meal stretching from sans to sans serif

Dinamo Name Crawler

Creating a Color Outline Font

How does Dinamo price fonts?

Using Variable Fonts on the Web. Our guide to implementing VFs online using CSS and Javascript

Arizona Design Features

ABC Maxi. Draws from the long history of the International Style. Newly animated and exaggerated by way of variable font technology

ABC Diatype. A warm grotesque that doesn’t ask for too much attention. Harkens back to an age of clunky pre-digital typesetting machines

Dinamo 3.0 Has Arrived

Dinamo’s Berlin Years. An interview with GRAPHIC on the local design scene. Plus plans for our upcoming Dinamo Space

Dinamo Face Filters 2019-2020. Collaborations with AR and VR artists. Includes lessons in self-care, translation hacks, and one notorious pig

t¥p3w0rld Face Filter. Transforms users into a chubby 3D letterform in a landscape recalling the default wallpaper of Windows XP

ABC Favorit Hangul. A translation of Favorit’s special DNA into the Hangul script by Seoul-based Mingoo Yoon

Expanding Brain Face Filter. The ubiquitous meme transformed into an AR filter. Boldly communicates expanding mental enlightenment

Hangul Hardware. An exhibition and typeface launch party. Centered on Seoul’s design scene and production chains

ABC Laica. Responds to the heritage of Dutch type design education. Reflects today’s reality of cheap flights and constant hustle

Dinamo Darkroom Toothbrushes. Emergency Curaprox for those who forget about their dental care while travelling

ABC Whyte + ABC Whyte Inktrap. Informed by a sample from the heyday of grotesques. Reimagines ink traps for the age of variable fonts

ABC Favorit Cyrillic & Greek. Favorit’s latest language extensions. Now available with Favorit Pro

ABC Monument Grotesk. Honest and idiosyncratic shapes designed by Kasper-Florio. More than just a family of traditional weights

Different Times 2013-2018. A t-shirt range set in variations of the Times typeface. Modifies in slogan and design depending on the context of its release

ABC Ginto. An exuberant geometric-humanist typeface that delights in tension. Remixes two distinctive historical impulses

Print Specimen. Produced after winning the Swiss Design Award. Includes info on our pen-wielding da Vinci Surgical System

ABC Favorit Lining. Includes a “smart underline” built straight into the font. Ideal for creating unconventional letter shapes

Galapagos Game. Originally created by Felix Salut as a prop for a short-film. A modular tool for drawing letter shapes

ABC Pareto. A typeface designed while watching Spaghetti Westerns. Merges the slab genre with a trilogy of bulky Bauhaus serifs

ABC Galapagos. Inspired by a futuristic-yet-biological board game. A modular system featuring a range of ever-evolving, unique characters

ABC Grow. Reimagines a 1970s Letraset typeface of countless onion rings. Available in numerous Frankenstein variations

Repro Design Features