

Zeche is a sans serif that reinterprets old German industrial typography for a contemporary context. Its origin is personal: conceived around the Zeche Zollverein colliery in the Ruhr my move from North Rhine-Westphalia to Berlin, it carries the weight and geometry of Germany’s industrial lettering into a clean modern sans. The face is now used by the traditional Schützenverein (“shooting club”) Halbvoll – leaving a piece of the designer’s origin at work in his home region.

Glyph set

Members of the Schützenverein