Malte Bentzen

Malte Bentzen (b.1989) is a type designer from Denmark living and working in Zurich, Switzerland. He collaborates with type foundries, designers and artists.

2020 – Present: Working at the Master in Type design at écal. Developing typefaces for release and licensing at Optimo and AllCaps type foundry.

2017 - 2020: Working as freelance designer: Lineto, Optimo, Studio Laurenz Brunner, Studio Aurèle Sack, ABC Dinamo.

Feel free to get in contact for collaborations, type samples or more information.

Record cover designed by Nicolas Eigenheer with Void typeface. Music For A Cosmic Garden by Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti, 2023

Poem by Juan Feng set in Affix typeface, inspired by 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦 from Sharon Creech, 2024

AAA+ introductory workshop in type design with Ondrej Bachor at the ECAL Master in Type Design, 2021

How to type – with Affix typeface

Nike using Void typeface, 2024

Folded poster for quartz crisis, Baker Wardlaw, EAC (les halles), featuring the ligatures of Logistik typeface, 2023

Custom typeface for Perelman Arts Center NYC, with Porto Rocha and Allcaps Foundry, 2024

Modern Gothic "aa"

Two books designed by Florian Lahm using Recital typeface. Window Shopping, Eva Berendes, Spector Books 2022 & Art Worker: Doing Time in the New York Artworld, Alan W. Moore, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press 2022

Modern Gothic in the states, 2022