Based in Melbourne, Australia, Morice Kastoun is a graphic designer, brand and packaging specialist, and type designer. Over the course of a career that has spanned more than two decades, Morice understands the power behind quality design and remains ever-committed to his chosen craft.
He established HeadFirst Design, a type foundry and label dedicated to showcasing top-quality type designs. Currently working as a freelancer, Morice is always on the lookout for exciting collaborative projects to explore with others.
One of Morice’s most recent releases through YouWorkForThem is Briery, a “simple” sans serif type family with a unique edge — literally. Featuring razor-sharp angular detailing and diamond-shaped tittles (the dots over a lowercase “i” or “j”), Briery is a contemporary design that makes a strong visual statement wherever it goes.
This type family blends original and functional design elements to create a standout sans serif, one that was “created to inspire your design imagination.” Briery features sweeping graceful curves that culminate in sharp points that adjoin the stems in characters like “r,” “n,” “p,”, and “a.” This striking contrast creates a visual harmony that is expressive, playful, and above all things: one-of-a-kind.
Designed for optimal legibility in display and body copy use, this type family functions beautifully in both large and small point. Briery is available in Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Black weights, with corresponding italics for each.
Briery is well suited to a wide variety of design projects that include headlines and subheadings, editorial use, website designs, displays and signage, logo designs, product packaging, marketing materials, publishing, and so much more. It’s a perfect choice for branding and identity projects that need a beautifully-crafted and stylish sans serif at the helm.
Briery provides ample design flexibility through OpenType features that include case sensitive forms, fractions, standard ligatures, ordinals, and stylistic alternates. It extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Catalan, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Basic Greek for design projects intended for an international audience.
Right now through September 30, 2020, Briery is on sale for 80% off of its regular price so it’s a fantastic time to add this striking sans serif to your font collection!
Morice Kastoun currently offers four products through YouWorkForThem and we’re looking forward to seeing more of his work in the future. So far, his designs carry a strong contemporary spin, including Mezza Display, a striking exploration of arabesque geometric patterns in type form. Visit Morice’s portfolio to take a look at the rest of his work and if you love what you find there, bookmark it so you can check back for new additions as time goes on!
