Werkdruck
Werkdruck is an industrious serif typeface threading together sources of rational and transitional type design. Its generous shapes bear contemporary digital needs in mind, remaining legible when set small on hi-res displays. Werkdruck comes with 9 weights, true italics, and 911 glyphs per style. The ideal companion for our popular sans, Werksatz.
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Werkdruck – The complete family
These are all the styles contained in the Werkdruck font family. You can purchase single fonts or family packages.
Werkdruck (18 Fonts)
From €200.00 excl. VATWerkdruck – Styles
Write your own words — like a book or movie title, business name, brand claim, advertising slogan, or a short text — to see how they look typeset in Werkdruck.
Werkdruck – Character Set
These are all the characters contained in the Werkdruck glyph set. It’s a great way for you to check the language support, stylistic alternates, OpenType features, and special characters like dingbats and icons. Click a character to see more details.
Werkdruck – Design Information
Werkdruck: An industrious serif typeface from the good old days.
Werkdruck is a serif typeface from the good old days made fit for the internet age. Its no-nonsense concept threads together different sources of rational and transitional type design—from times when honest work was still in style. Its sturdy construction makes reading copy efficient and easy, while the digitally perfect curves show their strength in large sizes.
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Its rooting in rational designs means Werkdruck is decidedly drawn, not written. This typeface has the regular appearance of a Didone typeface, with vertical stress and symmetrical construction, but it comes with much less sparkling stroke contrast and bracketed serifs, true to the 19th-century saying: “Less spice, more meat.”
The appearance of Werkdruck isn’t mechanic, though, with details like the organic drop terminals deviating visibly from the ruler-and-compass ideal of more stylized designs and infusing the modest character of this typeface with life. Werkdruck reminisces popular turn-of-the-century typefaces built upon the Scotch Modern genre that were cast into economic proportions to accommodate print shop requirements of the time. Unlike those predecessors, though, Werkdruck opts for more generous shapes with contemporary digital needs in mind, making each character exude confidence in modern branding while remaining legible in small sizes on high-resolution displays.
Werk smarter, not harder
At 911 glyphs, the 9 weights of the Werkdruck family—each complemented by beautifully rendered true italics—are equipped with all you need for complex print, app, and web layouts. Support for more than 200 languages, numerous figure sets, small capitals, and stylistic sets for alternate designs and circled or boxed characters let you fine-tune your serious typesetting to the heart’s content.
Teamwerk makes the dream werk
Werkdruck is the perfect companion for Werksatz. Completely independent designs in their own right, both font families share the same industrious heritage and have similar proportions, making them look great together. Whether it’s branding, books, UI/UX design, apps or corporate communication; from a museum landing page to a thousand-page encyclopedia: Pair these two hard-werking playmakers to create admirably self-reliant designs.