After reading "Afronautics – from Zambia to the Moon" by Bartek Sabela (about Zambian conquest of space) a breif was set to create typeface that looks like mix between: vernacular Arabic scripts, futuristic, space travel inspired typography and some unique lettering that Mateusz found in Africa during his travels to Guinée, Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania and West Sahara.
Afronaut is one weight but many letters have 3 different forms.
Language support: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Welsh, Zulu
Glyph count: 471
Graduate of the Graphic Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with honors. Laureate of the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture five times, as well as “Młoda Polska” (“Young Poland”) scholarship.
Awarded in TDC ASCENDERS 2018, KTR the best of design 2018 and many more competitions. Focused on the fields of visual identity, graphic design in general, and type design.
