AllCaps on launching their type design practice, working collaboratively and the value of learning

AllCaps is a design practice dedicated to publishing typefaces, founded by Ondrej Bachor and Jan Novák, and supported by Sascha Bente, Malte Bentzen, Sylvan Lanz and many other collaborators. Starting out as a post-university initiative, the team made the decision to formalise their practice into a type foundry, releasing their first four typefaces at launch – Youth, Modern Gothic, Rhetorik Sans and Rhetorik Serif. We spoke to the AllCaps team about starting the foundry together, their approach to creating typefaces, and working together across multiple countries. PT: What led you to start the foundry together? OB: For me, it was definitely an opportunity to create a dialogue between other designers and us. The fonts in our catalogue are the result of our activities, research, education, workshops and collaborations, and this is how we can share them under one roof. Before we founded AllCaps, we would chat and share our sketches within the group, so bringing them to a wider audience was the next step. So far, this exchange has brought new collaborations that might not have been possible if we had kept our designs on a hard drive. It is very refreshing to see our work being used in different contexts that bring something back to our practice. In the future, I would like to continue to deepen this dialogue and keep making our practice more accessible.