Custom Typeface Design and Typographic Systems for Contemporary Brands
S6 Foundry designs custom and retail typefaces that do more than appear on brands. They structure how brands speak, behave, and endure across identity, editorial, and digital environments.
S6 Foundry is an independent type foundry specialising in custom typeface design and retail fonts for branding, editorial, and digital use. Operating at the intersection of type design, brand systems, and cultural context, the studio develops typographic solutions for designers, agencies, and institutions that require more than stylistic expression.
Most fonts are selected for how they look. Ours are designed for how they work. Each typeface is constructed as a system, where proportion, rhythm, and spacing are carefully controlled to ensure consistency across brand identity systems, editorial layouts, and digital interfaces. The objective is not simply visual coherence, but the ability to carry identity through complex and evolving environments.
Aisling Sans epitomizes enduring modernity in typography, radiating both style and individuality. Drawing inspiration from the impartiality of Swiss-type design, this font is classically proportioned with contemporary, distinctive shapes and curves and ductus, a wide overall stance, and large open counters that help legibility.
Babel Sans is a contemporary branding san serif with distinct letter forms, designed with classical proportions to produce a dynamic versatile OpenType typeface. The weights from Thin to Black, with over 400 characters per style integrate seamlessly, to offer a unique typeface, giving balance and form
Hupla is a stylistic mechanical font developed within a set grid, for use at both text and display sizes, designed with a full set of OpenType stylistic set
Rotary Sans is a contemporary Opentype sans serif typeface with strong geometric contrasts and pear drop-shaped ink traps. All styles have an extended Latin glyph set with alternatives and ligatures.
RNA Sans epitomizes enduring modernity in typography, radiating both style and individuality. RNA Sans is classically proportioned with contemporary, distinctive shapes and curves and ductus, with large open counters.
Babel Sans is a contemporary branding san serif with distinct letter forms, designed with classical proportions to produce a dynamic versatile OpenType typeface.
The retail font library offers contemporary typefaces designed for real-world applications, including branding, editorial design, and UI systems. Each font is developed with a specific role in mind, balancing neutrality and character to support designers working across multiple platforms.
Custom Typefaces
S6 Foundry develops custom typefaces for brands, agencies, and organisations seeking a distinctive typographic voice. These bespoke font solutions range from wordmarks to complete type families and are designed to integrate seamlessly within brand identity systems.
Typography is not treated as decoration, but as infrastructure. It is one of the primary tools through which a brand becomes legible, recognisable, and durable over time. For this reason, every typeface is designed to support hierarchy, clarity, and consistency across print and digital environments.
S6 Foundry works with clients looking for custom fonts, branding typefaces, and typographic systems with long-term relevance. The retail library provides immediate solutions, while custom development allows for fully tailored type design aligned with specific brand needs.
