FORMA is an independent type foundry in Berlin. Six people who draw original typefaces — retail families, variable fonts, and custom type for brands that want a voice no one else can license.
We don't auto-generate weights or trace trends. Every glyph is drawn, spaced, and tested by a human who will defend each curve.
A typeface outlives the brief it was made for. We draw for the next decade, not the next deck.
Every letter starts on a grid and ends in a Bézier curve, drawn by hand. We design the lowercase n and o first — the rhythm of the whole alphabet lives there.
A typeface is only as good as its spacing. We space every glyph against every other, then kern the awkward pairs until the texture is even and invisible.
OpenType features, hinting, variable axes, language support. The unglamorous craft that makes a drawing into a font that works everywhere.
Specimen, test pages, documentation, licensing. We ship a typeface like a product — and support it for years after.