Maxitype presents MXTP Vol. 1, a compilation of blocky, funky, artificial, experimental, geometric, brainy, comic, distorted, remixed, organic, bubbly, pixelated, obsolete, brutal, reflective, regular, medium, sensitive, dusty, arrogant, sticky, unbalanced, trippy and bumpy display typefaces, designed mostly during the hot summer type residency programmes held by Maxitype and friends in Cucuron, Luberon, France.

This parallel program, orginally called Maxitype Free Font Residency—later renamed MXTP— aims to invest time and energy in the development of typefaces liberated from market needs, without the pressure to design anything aesthetically acceptable of commercially relevant. Out of office, loud music always: references, techniques, software and shapes are unleashed. Playing with different inputs and speeds, some fonts were created in the course of a week, a day, or even in an hour by the swimming pool or late at night at the bar La Payotte. After three years of MXTP summer residencies, we're happy to compile the results in a volume that functions as a visual mix tape.

Typefaces in this volume were designed by Selina Bernet, Orlando Brunner, Giliane Cachin, Anatole Couteau, Pablo Desportes, Jules Estèves, Marietta Eugster, Eurostandard, Adrian Frutiger, Alicia Godel, Daniel Haettenschwiller, Thomas Hervé, Sarah Iller, David Keshavjee, Martin Lostis, Simon Mager, Maximage, Guy Meldem, Omnitype, Thomas Petit, Clemens Piontek, Clément Rouzaud, Jakub Samek, Teo Schifferli and Julien Tavelli.

This publication includes a Desktop License (1 CPU) for the 40 fonts in this volume.

Designed by Maximage

Published by Maxitype and Plasma, 2025

Hardcover with double foil, 136 pages, offset printed with 2 PMS colors, 8.27 × 9.25 in.

ISBN: 978-2-97-017303-8