Bernd Volmer
• – • Factory Berlin
About the speaker
Meet Bernd Volmer, the founder of Show Me Fonts, a Berlin-based type foundry that’s dedicated to fonts with character and functionality. Bernd’s work is closer than you think — he worked on fonts, like Berlin Type for the city of Berlin and Telekom’s TeleNeo, which quietly shape the words we see every day.
At Show Me Fonts Bernd works on every aspect of a font, from research, ideation and sketching to production of a finished product and the marketing of font families.
Local partners
Factory Network is an ecosystem of over 4,500 members from more than 90 nations located in two cities – Factory Berlin Mitte and Factory Hammerbrooklyn in Hamburg. We curate the most ambitious innovators from the tech, creative, and corporate industries. Our diverse community comes together to connect, collaborate, and thrive.
Additional details
Marjoree: A Typeface Inspired by Patterns and Tessellations
What connects mathematical patterns with the world of typography? And how did an amateur mathematician’s fascination with tessellations lead to the creation of a variable font family? What makes a typeface versatile enough to function both as readable text and as a visual pattern?
Bernd’s talk uncovers the journey from Marjorie Rice’s work with tessellating pentagons to the creation of Marjoree, a type family designed by Catalogtree and Show Me Fonts.
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