July Type is a type design studio based in The Hague, Netherlands, specializing in high-quality retail and custom typefaces. We combine historical research with contemporary type design to create distinctive typefaces for brands, institutions, and publishers. We believe typography is one of the most powerful tools in branding, shaping how a brand is perceived, remembered, and experienced. The quality of our typefaces and comprehensive language support are central to our practice. We take great care to ensure that our fonts are accessible, reliable, and perform across a wide range of languages and applications.

We design and expand typefaces across multiple writing systems, creating harmonious multilingual families that preserve a consistent visual identity. Whether extending an existing font or developing new scripts from the ground up, we ensure each writing system is carefully adapted to its linguistic and cultural context.

The quality of drawing and the performance of our fonts are our highest priorities. All of our designers value careful craftsmanship, hand drawing, and the time required to develop well balanced, detailed, and original typefaces. Most of the typefaces in our library are self-initiated projects, which allows us to dedicate the necessary time to their development. Depending on the complexity and scale of the project, some typefaces evolve over a period of several years. What takes so much time? Beyond the drawing itself, or a scale of the project for example in case of super family, an essential part of the process involves spacing and kerning — what directly affect readability and the overall texture of the text. Achieving the right balance between letterforms and counter spaces requires extensive refinement to create a harmonious rhythm and consistent texture colour.

Another important stage is font engineering. A typeface is ultimately a piece of software that needs to perform reliably across different operating systems, applications, and screen resolutions. We pay close attention to technical quality, ensuring OpenType functionality, alternative characters, ligatures, contextual alternates, math symbols, and many other features work smoothly and consistently. The technical capabilities and character sets of each typeface are documented in the PDF specimens available on every typeface page!