As the light begins to fade and the seasons start to shift, there is a palpable sense of change afoot. It seems oh-so-fitting for us to release the newest member to join the Fontwerk family at this time of seasonal transition. Change by Alessio Leonardi started life as the corporate typeface for the city of Berlin and was a mainstay for the identity across many of the city’s administrative offices and even the city’s Fire Brigade.

As a Berlin-based foundry, we wanted to work with Alessio Leonardi to comprehensively revise and expand this special artifact of regional type culture and finally make it available to designers worldwide. The potential of Change has never been truly reached and we are so excited to show the world just what it can do.

We’ve expanded the number of weights from five to eleven (insert Spinal Tap joke here): Hairline, Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Black, ExtraBlack. With the brand new Variable Font, all nuances of additional stroke widths between the extremes of Hairline and ExtraBlack can be set. As part of its revamp and rebirth, we’ve also enlarged the character set of Change. This also applies to the glyphs for non-Latin languages, which were checked and tested by Amélie Bonet (Cyrillic and Greek) and Donny Truong (Vietnamese). Finally, we’ve included small caps across all weights to extend the typographic variety.

We are exceptionally excited to see how this Berlin plant will bloom in other parts of the world, therefore we invite you to …