For graphic designers and type lovers, the arrival of the Typodarium is a familiar ritual. It is a daily tear-off calendar that features a different typeface for every single day of the year, making it a constant source of morning font inspiration.

We are glad to share that five of our typefaces were selected for the Typodarium 2025 edition. Having our work printed in a calendar that sits on so many creative desks around the world is highly rewarding.

What is the Typodarium Calendar?

Edited by Lars Harmsen and Raban Ruddigkeit, and published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt, the Typodarium has become a staple typography calendar over the years. The front of each daily page shows the day’s date set in a specific font, while the back provides a detailed breakdown of the typeface, its design history, and where to find it.

The calendar acts as a physical archive of contemporary type design, packaged as a functional piece of design desk decor. You can check out the official release details on the Ruddigkeit website.

Our Featured Fonts

The editors chose a varied mix of our designs for the 2025 edition, ranging from clean text faces to expressive display families. Here are the five fonts that made it into the calendar:

1. Glycerin

Glycerin is a geo-humanist sans-serif that we built primarily for text legibility. It features clean geometry mixed with subtle humanist details, making it highly functional for editorial layouts and user interfaces where clarity is key.

2. Gigafly

The high-contrast, energetic counter-weight to Glycerin. Gigafly is a contemporary display sans-serif designed for big headlines, posters, and branding projects that need a sharp, lively visual rhythm.

3. Teramo

Teramo is a serif typeface family that balances classic typographic proportions with sharp, modern details. It is highly versatile, working just as well in long-form text as it does in editorial headlines.

4. Eckhart

Eckhart is a high-contrast modern serif family rooted in the classic Didone style. Designed with elegance in mind, it is built for fashion branding, luxury packaging, and editorial display layouts.

5. Axalp Grotesk

Axalp Grotesk is a functional, technical geometric sans-serif. We focused heavily on clean engineering and precise geometry with this family, making it an excellent choice for modern digital environments and utilitarian print layouts.

Physical Type Calendars Matter in a Digital World

Most of our daily work as type designers happens behind a screen, adjusting point coordinates and testing spacing loops. Seeing these digital shapes manufactured into a physical, tear-off daily typography calendar shifts how you interact with the letterforms.

Flipping through a physical calendar like this offers a few distinct advantages for your daily workflow:

• Tactile Discovery: You get exposed to a completely random typeface every morning, breaking you out of your usual digital algorithm or font-choice habits.
• Real Print Reference: It shows how different weights, ink traps, and contrast levels translate to paper and ink at a small, everyday scale.
• Design Desk Decor: Beyond utility, it serves as a simple, well-crafted object that adds daily visual interest to your workspace.

Where to Find the Calendar and the Fonts

With 2025 just starting, the Typodarium doubles as a solid reference book for font pairing and design inspiration. If you want to track down a copy for your archive, you can find international listings on Amazon or order directly through the publisher, Verlag Hermann Schmidt.

If you saw one of our typefaces on your desk calendar and want to test it out in your own design projects, you can view the complete families and technical specs directly in the ROHH Type font catalog.