Underware

08/11/2022

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5 Posts, 140 Following, 119 Followers · Type foundry (founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling 🤯, Sami Kortemäki 😎 and Bas Jacobs 😊) based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam.

29/09/2019

Introducing: Grammato

In the past few years we’ve developed lots of type related technologies, and presented various new typographic ideas, mostly demonstrated at one of our lectures at conferences. Sometimes these lectures are accompanied by a small publication to reflect on what we’re doing and why we’re doing the things we’re doing. And now finally we seem to understand ourselves where we’re actually going. Now all these small pieces of the puzzle have come together in grammatography.

We’re extremely happy and excited to announce the introduction of grammatography with Grammato.

>>> www.grammato.com

Underware are German Akiem Helmling, Dutchman Bas Jacobs, and Finn Sami Kortemaki. They respectively reside in the cities of Den Haag, Amsterdam, and Helsinki. Their work is among the most popular of up-and-coming independent type foundries — happy-go-lucky, high-quality, text-friendly typefaces f...

15/08/2018

The possibilities of HOI still have to sink in and require perspicuous explanations.

“Two things strike me about ’s amazing HOI: 1. that no font editor ever offered curved interpolations 2. that HOI fonts are possible with OpenType 1.8 * * whose authors surely never knew they were enabling HOI maths https://t.co/3fX961Nok9”

09/08/2018

Our HOI Tour continues. Tonight live San Francisco, Aug 9, 6:30 pm. – https://t.co/k5m5FwuPLO

Based in The Hague, Amsterdam, and Helsinki, Underware is a type foundry and studio that has experimented on the edge of design and technology for nearly 20 years. Letterform Archive welcomes Akiem Helmling and Sami Kortemäki for an evening on the future of typography. The Variable Font format is t...

05/08/2018

Good that you can still be amazed after 30 years in the type industry

“Props to who demo’d curved (nonlinear) interpolation. Mind blown at ”

05/08/2018

Our HOI Tour 2018 took off. Thanks ! Next stop: Los Angeles.

“High Order Interpolations (HOI) Tech by IRL! 😍 https://t.co/XSCBxk3WP4”

24/07/2018

Hold your breath, we’ll be moving servers at migdnight (in 2 hours). Shouldn’t take more than an hour. Contact us tomorrow in case you think you ended up in a black hole.

21/07/2018

Retweeted Nick Sherman ():

I made a responsive design adaptation of the pre-responsive specs for painted Coca-Cola wall ads from 1948:
https://t.co/Axdpg21M4X

Thanks to for showing me the original specs and for letting me use his in-progress fonts. https://t.co/c4gWrwHeCV

20/07/2018

San Francisco! If you”re into type, if you’re into design, if you’re into language, if you’re into technology, if you’re into a nice evening, if you’re into “something else”, or if you’re into expanding your brain, then join us 9 Aug at

05/07/2018

Hear, hear.

“Groovy little variable fonts playground, from the font necromancers at → https://t.co/d4sLhiiS5W https://t.co/hj3v0H0ZXb”

05/07/2018

Hear, hear.

“For as long as I’ve been paying attention, has been supremely cool. Happy to see them pushing the envelope with variable fonts. https://t.co/735tfHRZ86”

29/06/2018

Retweeted Dan Pike ():

The geniuses have gone on a polysemic spree coding two words into the space of one https://t.co/fApzilThVH https://t.co/Vx60puHjQH

Underware are German Akiem Helmling, Dutchman Bas Jacobs, and Finn Sami Kortemaki. They respectively reside in the cities of Den Haag, Amsterdam, and Helsinki. Their work is among the most popular of up-and-coming independent type foundries — happy-go-lucky, high-quality, text-friendly typefaces f...