Cotford Pairings.

Cotford is a celebration of shape, form, and attention to detail. It is a soulful, contemporary serif designed to meet 21st century needs and take creatives to new places through type. Cotford is at once layered with references to classic typeface designs and taps into current trends and future possibilities in font technology – a “pop serif” for the modern digital age. 

Robust and versatile, Cotford embodies quality, consistency, and efficient performance in both static and variable, allowing you to tinker and tweak until you find the perfect style for a wordmark, editorial layout, headline, user interface, animation, or responsive experience.

There are a lot of colas in the world, but only one Coke. Helvetica needs no introduction. The most famous and popular typeface in the world, now in a Variable font. Pair with Cotford to create Impactful, sleek and functional brand systems and user experiences.

Univers is one of the greatest typographic achievements of the second half of the 20th century. The clear, objective forms of Univers facilitate an expression of cool elegance and rational competence. Together, Cotford and Univers create sleek and captivating packaging layouts.

A little-known design by Futura designer Paul Renner gets a long overdue update by Linda Hintz and Toshi Omagari, in this reliable and impactful industrial sans serif. When paired with Cotford, this duo can handle any editorial design need, on web, mobile and in print.

Malou Verlomme’s Madera is a typeface made strictly for graphic designers, created as an indispensable type toolbox that can meet the needs of both print and digital environments. Although designed as a restrained sans serif, the typeface has some punchy personality – with sharpened apexes that inject flavor into the design. An excellent partner to Cotford for a wide range of consumer brand identities, from FMCG to digital startups. 

Olli Meier’s Vary is a fun and adaptable geometric sans serif typeface, built with three feelings (variations): classic, modern, and loopy, offering an opportunity for designers to be playful in their typographic creations. Vary and Cotford work a delightfully well together for cultural design identities, posters and exhibition design 

The FF Nort™ typeface family is open, inviting, highly legible, and strikingly handsome. From simple blog posts to complicated web pages and type on both large and small screens, to hard copy publication design, advertising copy and brochures, there are few applications outside FF Nort’s broad range. Cotford and Nort is an intelligent pairing for complex editorial design, newspapers or any other content heavy application. Together they bring legibility and style in equal measure.  

For nearly 90 years, Paul Renner’s Futura has been as popular as it is versatile—from children’s books to fashion magazines to the plaque on the Moon. Futura is a typographic icon. Futura Now offers designers a chance to see Futura with fresh eyes. Pair Cotford with Futura Now for theatrical impact. A perfect duo for movie titles, theater posters and game titles.

An update of Monotype Grotesque that was first published in 1926, Rod McDonald’s Classic Grotesque combines both traditional and contemporary elements of typography. With its many fascinating details, Classic Grotesque is at home in print and web designs. Together, this pair provides punchy and stylish display type for book covers, and effortlessly legible text weights for long form reading.