Fadhl Waliy Haqq’s has been interested in hand-lettering and calligraphy since childhood. Growing up in Surakarta, Indonesia, he didn’t fully explore his passion for the craft until he was older, taking on the endeavor of teaching himself how to create fonts from scratch around 2012.
A few years later and after putting some experience under his belt, Fadhl established his personal type foundry, Akufadhl, a creative outlet that enables Fadhl to explore type design in whichever direction his inspiration takes him.
Fadhl usually begins his design projects with basic sketches that are eventually scanned into the computer and vectorized. He has a particular fondness and appreciation for vintage-inspired typography and hand-lettered signage, whose characteristics can be seen in many of his type designs.
Even when he’s working with more contemporary design concepts, Fadhl seeks to create letter sets with expressive personalities, extensive features, and plenty of alternate characters in an effort to accommodate the varied needs of graphic designers around the world.
One of his most recent releases through YouWorkForThem is Generisch Mono, a monospaced variant of Fadhl’s original Generisch Sans. The word, “generisch” is the German equivalent to “generic” — and this type design was crafted to be simple and basic. Like Generisch Sans, Generisch Mono was influenced by the grotesk typefaces of the early 20th century, right when sans type designs were gaining popularity.
Generisch Mono embraces the same level of simplicity as its sibling type, redesigned in a monospaced fashion that brings a contemporary feel to a classic design style. Available in Thin, Light, Regular, Book, SemiBold, and Bold, it’s perfect for programming applications, subheadings, website designs, mobile applications, publishing, logos, product packaging and informational inserts, merchandise, apparel, labels, tags, marketing materials, and infographics.
Generisch Mono offers a variety of additional features through OpenType, including fractions, discretionary and standard ligatures, ordinals, localized forms, subscript, superscript, scientific inferiors, oldstyle figures, and stylistic alternates for design flexibility. It extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, and Basic Cyrillic for design projects intended for an international audience.
Akufadhl currently offers 15 products through YouWorkForThem, a range of sans serifs, serifs, scripts, and display typefaces to suit a variety of design projects. Visit his portfolio to take a look at his complete body of work and if you like what you see, bookmark it so you can check back for new releases in the future!
