Bespoke typefaces with Colophon
Two typefaces made with Colophon Foundry as Whispir grew into a global technology company, and the specimens that introduced them.
A voice for a company that had grown up
Whispir’s design team worked with Colophon Foundry to create two bespoke typefaces that reflected the company’s evolution into a global technology business: Capisce, a display face, and Motivo.
A type tester people could play with
I designed and built an online type specimen with a testing utility, so anyone could choose a typeface, change the point size, edit the sample text and pick a background colour to see the fonts at work.
Duality
The printed specimen was built around the theme of duality: a double saddle-stitched booklet with a Z-fold cover. Capisce and Motivo were presented as partners, with the content split into halves so the two could be read side by side and compared.
Motivo, off the brief
Alongside the specimens I built a small experiment of my own in code, playing with Motivo outside the rules of the brand to see what the typeface could do when it was simply allowed to be itself.