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Partner with us

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Partner with us

We design type systems for brands that treat typography as infrastructure, not an afterthought. Public Type plugs into brand teams and agencies as type partners, helping you navigate decisions, support your clients, and make the work unmistakable.

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How We Work

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Why custom type?

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Size

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OT Features

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Typography touches more brand surface area than any other asset. It shows up across packaging, product, campaigns, and internal systems. When it's fragmented, everything feels a little off. When it's clear, everything feels connected.

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Custom Development

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Custom Development

Typography is the visual shape of your written language, and shape carries feeling before meaning. Before anyone reads a word, a typeface can already read as serious or playful, premium or everyday, timeless or new. That impression is shaping how you're seen on every surface, whether you designed it to or not.

An original typeface built exclusively for your brand.

We design a complete type system from the ground up, tailored to your identity and built to perform across every application. You own the IP outright. No renewals, seat counts, or usage restrictions.

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Custom Typeface Design

An original typeface built exclusively for your brand.

We design a complete type system from the ground up, tailored to your identity and built to perform across every application. You own the IP outright. No renewals, seat counts, or usage restrictions.

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Custom Typeface Design

A custom typeface developed together.

We work alongside your team to create a typeface shaped by your brand and creative direction. You receive perpetual usage rights, while Public Type maintains ownership.

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Co-Created Typeface Design

A custom typeface developed together.

We work alongside your team to create a typeface shaped by your brand and creative direction. You receive perpetual usage rights, while Public Type maintains ownership.

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Co-Created Typeface Design

Make an existing font your own.

We customize one of our typefaces through character, spacing, and structural refinements, then rename it for your brand.

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Bespoke License

Make an existing font your own.

We customize one of our typefaces through character, spacing, and structural refinements, then rename it for your brand.

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Bespoke License

Extend your type into new markets.

We expand existing typefaces to support additional languages, scripts, and specialized character sets while preserving the character and integrity of the original design.

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Language & Script Expansion

Extend your type into new markets.

We expand existing typefaces to support additional languages, scripts, and specialized character sets while preserving the character and integrity of the original design.

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Language & Script Expansion

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Here’s how we’ve helped brands get more from type.

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Here’s how we’ve helped brands get more from type.

Bon Iver

Iver Sans

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2023

Disney

Matterhorn

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2012

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Leading

0.80

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Licensing & Strategy

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Licensing & Strategy

Licensing type across a large organization gets complicated fast: more teams, more platforms, more rights to track, more people who have to agree. We've spent years untangling exactly this. What comes out the other side is simple: agreements people can actually understand, decisions you can defend, and a clear path from where you are to where you're going.

One agreement for your entire organization.

Cover teams, partners, platforms, and use cases under a licensing structure built around how your business actually operates. Fewer restrictions, less administration, and no surprises as your needs grow.

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Enterprise License

One agreement for your entire organization.

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Enterprise License

Build a type system that can grow with you.

We assess your typography across platforms, identify gaps and risks, and build a roadmap for what comes next. You receive clear recommendations for licensing, budget, implementation, and migration.

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Type Sttrategy

Build a type system that can grow with you.

We assess your typography across platforms, identify gaps and risks, and build a roadmap for what comes next. You receive clear recommendations for licensing, budget, implementation, and migration.

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Type Sttrategy

Take control of type licensing and spend.

We review your current licenses, costs, and compliance to identify risk and unnecessary spend. You receive a clear plan to simplify licensing, reduce costs, and migrate where needed.

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Type Licensing Audit

Take control of type licensing and spend.

We review your current licenses, costs, and compliance to identify risk and unnecessary spend. You receive a clear plan to simplify licensing, reduce costs, and migrate where needed.

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Type Licensing Audit

Better type support for you and your clients.

Built for agencies, studios, and consultancies managing multiple brands. Get preferred rates, licensing guidance, documentation, and dedicated support to specify and manage type confidently across client work.

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Agency Partnership Program

Better type support for you and your clients.

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Agency Partnership Program

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Interested in working together?

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Interested in working together?

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