Pangea, the popular geometric sans from Berlin foundry Fontwerk, is beloved for its space-saving, balanced refinement. Designed by Christopher Koeberlin, the multilingual, shapeshifting superfamily has now grown to 80 fonts with the recent release of Pangea Condensed: with SemiCondensed, Condensed, and XCondensed.
The name Pangea evokes visions of a singular global landmass, so it’s no surprise that Koeberlin and the Fontwerk team collaborated across the globe to embed broad language support into the family. European Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Vietnamese are included as standard (Pangea Condensed is, for now, available in this standard subset). Pangea Afrikan was the first language extension, which supports all Latin-based African languages and some Indigenous North American languages. Arabic and Hebrew followed, working with Azza Alameddine, a Lebanese type designer living in Spain, and Israeli designers Yanek Iontef and Daniel Grumer. The Fontwerk team is continually working to add support for additional languages.
With the addition of narrower widths, Pangea is now an even more powerful and versatile dynamo for designers working on packaging, branding, editorial, and digital projects.
What’s better? Koeberlin’s commitment to donate 25% of his earnings to preserving the rainforest and to implementing large-scale reforestation projects with organizations such as Trees for the Future, The Green Belt Movement, and Fairventures Worldwide.
