Casper Schutte — Spook Design Co. — Cape Town, South Africa

“I design my typefaces primarily for myself, if other designers can use the fonts that’s an added bonus. So I don’t really face the challenges that type designers who design for an audience face. But I would say my main challenge is to ensure that my fonts tell a story I’ve scrapped countless typefaces that just did not have enough character (pun intended). I use type design as a form of self-expression, it’s a visual representation of language, the purest form of communication. And stylistically each font I put out in the world should have a distinct personality.”

Spook Design Co. is a Cape Town-based agency, founded in 2020, that specializes in branding, illustration and type design with a flair for quirky designs that are unexpected. “Never boring, always mischievous, I want my work to bring smiles wherever it’s seen, I’m allergic to minimalism and always try to be over the top,” says Schutte.