Halftone Works / Brand and graphic design
A studio that works in the print register: logo systems, packaging, posters and type design, set out as a monograph so the work can be read the way a book is read.
01 / Selected work
Each case is a spread of its own: the brief, the work, the plate and the notes. Keep scrolling and the spreads move sideways.
Scroll to move sideways
A roastery that sells by the bag, so the system has to survive a shelf and a freezer. Six boxes, one insert, one tin, all printed on the same stock with a single lime spot.
A freight line that wants to look like a city, not a truck. A wordmark, a wayfinding grid and a stamp that travels in the livery.
One poster for a two day festival, cut and printed in a single pass, with the registration left visible on purpose.
The studio's own type specimen set, cut into six sheets and printed on the same stock as the work above.
02 / Type specimens
Six sheets of the studio specimen set. Drag a face to move it, pinch two fingers to resize it, and download each one as a PDF.
150 / 200
Set in Meridian, two weights.
The face the studio signs with. Tight tracking, a wide x height, and a counter that survives a small size.
112 / 140
Set in Halftone, the poster weight.
A condensed face for headlines. It is cut to sit next to a display face without fighting it.
78 / 104
Set in Litho, the label weight.
A light face for small sizes. It keeps its voice when it drops from a headline down to a label.
96 / 128
Set in Grain, the specimen set.
A quiet face for running text and small notes. It is the one that does the work the other three do not.
03 / Color system
Drag across the strip or move your pointer and the active swatch follows. The ink values stay in the file.
04 / Lectures and talks
Two talks from the studio, filmed at the press and at the school. Both are set out like the work.
Why a brand still has to be printed, and what the press teaches a design team about hierarchy. Thirty minutes on the spot, with the proof sheet on the table.
The screen is fast. The press is slow. And the slow one decides what you can say.
How a face gets cut, how it gets set, and what happens to the specimen when the client changes the brief halfway through.
A specimen is not a sample. It is the argument.
05 / Contact
Halftone Works. A brand and graphic design studio working from Rotterdam and Lisbon. Brand systems, packaging, posters and type design, published as a monograph. Two projects a month, everything else on the queue.
Studio
Ketelstraat 12, 3011 Rotterdam
Availability
Open for projects from April 2026. New work announced in the monograph.