Bold Monday

Name: Bold Monday
Address: Oranjestraat 3, The Hague, 2514JB, NL
Telephone: +31703226397

Bold Monday – independent font foundry of high quality type. “Good type is hard work.” Our fonts are available in both desktop and web formats.

Bold Monday, founded in 2008 by Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen, is an independent Dutch type foundry. Its output strikes a balance between custom typefaces for high-profile international clients, and retail typefaces for discerning designers. Bold Monday is specialised in creating original, and sometimes slightly off-beat typefaces that are always executed with great care and attention to detail.

01/12/2025

New Release — Pim!

My playful Pim (and the Analogue Pixels, Pim for short) came a long way. As natural as it feels in the Bold Monday catalog with all the fun features you have come to expect from a digital typeface today, the initial version was actually designed for letterpress printing. I produced the analog fonts in polymere and wood, every monospaced letter a square cube.

These letterforms were inspired by the iconic ‘Pootjesglas’ etalage lettering in Dutch shop windows of the mid 20th century, named after Johannes Willem ‘Pim’ Pootjes. The wide, round shapes, distinct ball terminals and bold, round punctuation of these glas advertising boards had fascinated me for a long time. While analogue Pim only consisted of capital letters, digital Pim adds an extensive repertoire of lowercase, alternates, pictograms, ornaments, borders, patterns and display numerals that hark back to their origin. It covers the extended Latin and Cyrillic character-set (with Bulgarian and Serbian alternates) across three weights and an inline style.

All glyphs were drawn on a square and have an extremely high x-height with no descenders. Because of this Pim can be set very tightly, best with no additional interline spacing (leading). Three different sets of ‘clip-on’ swashes can be connected to the capital letters of the Latin as well as Cyrillic character-set. When you type [, {, or ( followed by an uppercase letter, the bracket is replaced by a swash and the uppercase letter adjusts to connect to it. Typing a hyphen, dash, or caret between bracket and letter creates a ‘connector’ stroke for longer swashes.

For basic uppercase initials there are also Pootjes-inspired alternative ‘Art Deco’ characters available. Manicules (index fingers), emoji, arrows, symbols and googly eyes umlauts round out the character-set and enable all the fun we need in our lives right now.

I can’t wait to see what you design with Pim.

To celebrate the release of Pim, all styles are available with a 30% discount until 5 January 2026.

www.boldmonday.com/typefaces/pim/

18/03/2025

NEW RELEASE — Rigby Mono by Pieter van Rosmalen!

Our small Rigby type family – designed by Pieter van Rosmalen – got a little larger: now also available in a monospaced variant that makes monospaced text extra personable. Nevertheless, Rigby is still not overwhelming you with a confusing number of styles. Two weights, regular and bold, and a matching italic – sometimes referred to as RIBBI – Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic – provide all the emphasis you need for simple projects and correspondence, on screens as well as in print.

Rigby (Mono) started as a retail version of a custom typeface developed for NTR, a Dutch public broadcaster specializing in information, education and culture. The expressive logo by Studio Turner was to be accompanied by a performant but also warm and fitting typeface. While our NTR-fonts were sharp and rounded at the same time, van Rosmalen settled for all-sharp/angular terminals for Rigby but still kept personable letterforms like the unique lowercase g and e. If these are too flavourful for your use-case, just switch to the more toned-down alternatives via OpenType features: “normal” g, e with straight bar, and single-storey a. (You can also access these alternates individually via stylistic sets.) However, the personable feel of these default characters is what makes the monospaced family extra special.

Plenty of accented characters cover 40 Latin-based languages. Use it where ever your standard text-editor font is too boring but an expansive family with 80 styles would be too overwhelming.

To celebrate the release of Rigby Mono, all Rigby styles (so not only Rigby Mono! are available with a 30% discount until 14 April 2025.

www.boldmonday.com/typefaces/rigby/

16/12/2024

NEW RELEASE — Merwede by Titus Schulz!

Titus Schulz understands what makes a good text typeface legible. Drawing on 25 years of experience as a book designer and inspired by his own calligraphic handwriting, which he got introduced to at ArtEZ Academy of Arts Arnhem, he designed Merwede.

Merwede is not a revival. Many of its features are unconventional and unique. They stem from Schulz’s dissatisfaction with details in classic book typefaces, like italic capitals. (In Merwede, the italic capitals stand one degree more upright than the lowercase so they don’t appear to lean against the lowercase.) References and inspiration have been early Renaissance typefaces and the work of typographers and type designers such as Pierre Simon Fournier, Eric Gill, Jan van Krimpen, Helmut Salden and Martin Majoor, without following any particular model.

In addition to the three standard weights Regular, Medium and Bold, Merwede – named after a river in the west of The Netherlands – includes an intermediary weight called ‘Firm’. Merwede Firm is slightly heavier than Merwede Regular and was designed for posters, inscriptions or reversed-out text. All weights set to the same width so changes in the font weight won’t cause any reflow.

A unique feature of Merwede is the full set of musical chord symbols, which Schulz finds unfavourably designed in almost all music books. ‘Why are the sharp, flat and all necessary chord symbols missing in typefaces? Almost all music books are miserable shaped when it comes to these symbols.’

All this, plus an extensive set of OpenType features make Merwede a true, very charming workhorse.

www.boldmonday.com/typefaces/merwede

12/12/2024

Monday 16 December we will release a new typeface! The type specimens are printed by our friends at NPN Printers in Breda, The Netherlands.

24/06/2024

🎉 Today we celebrate that Bold Monday was founded 16 years ago! We want to express a big thank you to all our customers, collaborators and supporters. To celebrate our anniversary, you will receive an extra 16% discount on all items in our webshop for the next 16 days! Use voucher code "BoldMonday16years". Cheers!

www.boldmonday.com

03/06/2024

NEW RELEASE – Bilo Thai, designed by boom.type

Bilo Thai is the Thai script companion to Pieter van Rosmalen’s Bilo family.

The modern loopless design shares many of the unique details and flavour you’ve come to love in Bilo, for instance the slightly pointy-eared terminals and wide, round shapes – remnants of van Rosmalen’s initial experiment to draw a low-contrast sans-serif version of Bodoni. (For more information on this see the Bilo family page.)

The moderate x-height of Latin Bilo made it easy to match the proportions of the Thai and its need for room for vowels and tone marks above and below the middle (consonant) height. Bilo Thai aims to capture the same playful yet versatile tone as Bilo’s Latin counterpart. The typeface incorporates circular details that complement the native characteristics of Thai letters, such as Dochada, Thothan and Lochula. It also simplifies letterforms to enhance the cursive elements in characters like Oang, as well as Honokhuk and Chochan. Additionally, the vowel Sara-a features a colon-like form in its alternative glyph, reflecting a style prevalent in many Thai hand lettering displays during the late 1950s to 1960s. These features allow Bilo Thai to handle diverse applications, from large to small sizes, without losing its distinctive characteristics.

The family is available in nine finely graded weights. Alternative forms for Dodek, Totao and Ngongu let you choose between a more rounded or angular appearance. And of course, Bilo the dog came along, too! Also each Thai style includes 18 different dog-related icons designed by Dirk Uhlenbrock.

To celebrate the release of Bilo Thai, all styles are available with a 30% discount until 1 july 2024.

https://www.boldmonday.com/typefaces/bilo-thai/

06/04/2024

The typeface we developed for Dutch football club PSV in use on a mural. Image courtesy of PSV.

04/12/2023

UPDATE – Version 2.0 adds Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew to Pieter van Rosmalen’s Nitti Mostro. The Cyrillic and Greek character sets are designed in close collaboration with Aleksandra Samuļenkova and Hebrew with Yanek Iontef.
Existing Nitti Mostro customers can update for free by downloading the updated fonts from their account.
https://www.boldmonday.com/typeface/nitti-mostro/

09/10/2023

NEW RELEASE – Jurriaan 3D by Pieter van Rosmalen.

Both Pieter van Rosmalen and Jurriaan Schrofer have a profound interest in geometrical, modular and multi-dimensional letter experiments. On this typeface they – figuratively – worked together: Jurriaan 3D is a new crossbreed based on a typeface designed by Schrofer in 1969 and the original version of van Rosmalen’s Capibara from 2002. It explores perspective and dimensionality in a supposedly flat medium through four design variants of compact, strictly angular letterforms.

The Dark style throws a severe drop shadow, completely filling the space within and between characters. Ribbed breaks up the shade into five lined layers. The Shaded style is combining finely hatched and hard drop shadows to create different tonal values. Additionally, Fill invites you to experiment with layering and tone/colour even further by combining it with any of the other styles.

Although clearly at home in large-size applications, Jurriaan 3D features proper fractions, alternates, ordinals, scientific inferiors or superscripts and comprehensive language support for refined micro typography.

https://www.boldmonday.com/typefaces/jurriaan-3d/

05/10/2023

Sneak preview of the printed specimen for our upcoming release Jurriaan 3D. The small family of four is a mash-up between a typeface designed by Jurriaan Schrofer in 1969 and our very own typeface Capibara, designed in 2002 by Pieter van Rosmalen. Coming very soon! Specimen beautifully printed at Drukkerij Tielen.

Adres

Oranjestraat 3
The Hague
2514JB

Telefoon

+31703226397

Website

http://www.boldmonday.com/

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