CHF 18.00
Includes a Font License
for Teletext full family
Teletext Type Specimen
Published by Maxitype, 2025
Designed by Maximage
Softcover, 20 pages
21 × 23.5 cm
Offset printed with 3 PMS
Edition of 800 copies
ISBN 978-2-9701730-2-1
Teletext Type Specimen showcases Teletext, a humanist pixel typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1979 and released by Maxitype in 2025.
In collaboration with Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Graphics Collection
CHF 20.00
Signs Type Specimen
Published by Maxitype, 2025
Designed by Marietta Eugster
in collaboration with Maximage & Åbäke
Softcover with PVC sleeve, 16 pages
21 × 29.7 cm
Offset overprint with 4 PMS on waste paper
Limited edition of 350 copies
ISBN 978-2-9701730-6-9
Signs Type Specimen showcases Signs, a typeface designed by Maximage. The images are sourced from the MTV Video Music Awards 2023 broadcast. The publication is overprinted on waste paper (WPP), and each copy is slightly different.
CHF 36.00
Includes a Font License
for Cornbread Fat
Cornbread the Legend
Published by Maxitype, 2024
Designed by Maximage
Hardcover, 156 pages
21.8 × 27.8 cm
B/W offset printed on 2 types of paper
1. Edition of 800 copies
ISBN 978-2-9701730-4-5
Cornbread the Legend depicts the legendary story of Darryl ‘Cornbread’ McCray, the pioneer of modern graffiti. Explore archive newspapers, drawings, photographs, and an interview by Maxitype revealing his groundbreaking impact on the Hip Hop movement.
Awarded The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2024
CHF 15.00
Alternative Layout System
Published by Giliane Cachin, 2024
Designed by Giliane Cachin
Softcover, 40 pages
21 × 29.7 cm
Offset printed with 3 PMS
Edition of 700 copies
Alternative Layout System explores innovative approaches to paragraph formatting, drawing inspiration from historical manuscript techniques to challenge conventional layouts. The research resulted in a plugin for InDesign, available for free download at alternativelayoutsystem.com. The publication presents designers’ experimental work with these scripts.
Contributions by Alexis Hominal & Tamara Niklaus, Alice Franchetti, Anatole Couteau & Pablo Desportes, Arve Båtevik, Clemens Piontek, Eurostandard, Isabel Seiffert, Jonathan Hares, Lea Michel, Marietta Eugster & Loan Bottex, Maximage, Mitch Paone, NORM, Omnigroup, Tancrède Ottiger, Teo Schifferli.
CHF 36.00
Includes a Font License
for MX Archeology
Archeology of Consequent Forms
Orlando Brunner
Published by Maxitype and VC-Edition, 2024
Designed by Orlando Brunner
Sewn Bound Softcover, 328 pages
21 × 29.7 cm
B/W offset print
Edition of 800 copies
ISBN 978-2-9701730-5-2
Archeology of Consequent Forms explores the use of neural-network-based artificial intelligence in the creative process of a typeface.
CHF 4.00
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Maxitype Journal №1
Published by Maxitype, 2024
Designed by Maximage
Saddle stitch, 40 pages
7.875 × 10.5 in
B/W newsprint
Edition of 1’200 copies
Maxitype Journal №1 is published on the occasion of the New York Art Book Fair 2024 and includes background information and references about the following typefaces: Metaballs, Rhymes, Signs, Selecta, OCR-X, Eurocat, Mosaic, Cornbread, Maligne. Essays by Jonas Berthod and Maxitype.
CHF 35.00
Includes a Font License
for OCR-X Regular
OCR-X Type Specimen
Published by Maxitype, 2023
Designed by Eurostandard
Perfect Bound, 48 pages
21 × 29.7 cm
Offset printed with 5 PMS
Edition of 700 copies
ISBN 978-2-9701730-0-7
OCR-X Type Specimen showcases OCR-X, designed by Eurostandard and Maximage, a homage to and an extension of the infamous OCR-A typeface from 1966. With an essay by Jonas Berthod and The (X)erox Tales ASCII comic.
CHF 20.00
Selecta Type Specimen
Published by Maxitype, 2022
Designed by Giliane Cachin
Softcover, 32 pages
21 × 29.7 cm
Offset printed with 3 PMS
Edition of 700 copies
Selecta Type Specimen compares Selecta with a series of modern historical typefaces by means of diagrams. This typographic study exposes the research on the ‘grotesque’ genre that led to the design of this typeface by Maximage.
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HARD COPY, SOFT COPY
The Printed Page and Its Digital Doubles
Published by Marietta Eugster and Andreas Koller, 2024
Designed by Marietta Eugster
Softcover, 232 pages
21 × 29.7 cm
approx. 1700 images
ISBN 978-2-9701730-1-4
HARD COPY, SOFT COPY maps the shift in publishing, dissemination, and reception, from print to digital, mirrored in the trajectory of the typeface ‘Schmalfette Grotesk’ by Swiss designer Walter F. Haettenschweiler from the 1950s up to today.
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Modelo Type Specimen, 2020
Published on the occasion of the
Jan Tschichold Award 2020
Designed by Marietta Eugster
Softcover, 16 pages
23.5 × 31.5 cm
Offset printed with 2 PMS
Edition of 500 copies
Modelo Type Specimen is overprinted in silver and red inks on the first 16-page signature of The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2019 catalogue. Special thanks to Nicole Udry and Teo Schifferli.
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Rhymes Type Specimen, 2021
Designed by Martin Groch & Jakub Samek
Softcover, 24 Pages
21 × 28 cm
Offset print in black on
Fedrigoni Nature Touch 95 gsm
Limited edition of 150 copies
Rhymes Type Specimen has been published on the occasion of the Jan van Eyck Academy Open Studios 2021. With texts by Persis Bekkering and Jakub Samek.