Type foundry and lettering studio, Kelderby
Type for signs, books and screens.
Varley Type draws typefaces and custom alphabets by hand. Two families, nine weights of grotesk, and licences priced by how you use them.
Garland 900, condensed
Two families
The sheet
Every letter, one sheet
Garland set at its regular and bold weights. Each cell is the same size, so you can compare letters side by side before you pick a style.
Type tester
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
Set your own sentence in either family, then change size, weight, width and italic. Nothing is saved and nothing is sent.
Licences
Priced by use
Print, office and presentation use on up to five computers.
Self-hosted web fonts for one site, with a page-view band that you choose.
Fonts inside a shipped app or device, for a set number of installs.
Shop fronts, vehicles and large print runs, quoted per job.
Custom work
From sketch to files
Brief
A 30-minute call, the surfaces and sizes the lettering has to survive, and a budget range.
Sketch
Two rounds of pencil drawings, then a rough set in your own words, not placeholder text.
Refine
Cut the joins, test at 9 pt and at 9 metres, and check every weight you need.
Deliver
Font files, the licence, a one-page usage sheet and a tester link for your team.
They drew the lettering for the bakery sign, then a whole book in the same letters two years later.
Send the sizes, the surfaces and a rough deadline.
We reply within two working days with a fixed quote for the first round.